QCB News
Fadler Publication
March 29, 2021
Rachel Fadler (Flood lab) was first author on Chain Entropy Beats Hydrogen Bonds to Unfold and Thread Dialcohol Phosphates inside Cyanostar Macrocycles To Form [3]Pseudorotaxanes, a paper published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Brown Publication
March 29, 2021
Brooke Brown (Clemmer lab) was second author on Exosome-Mediated Crosstalk between Keratinocytes and Macrophages in Cutaneous Wound Healing, a paper published in ACS Nano.
Schlicksup Publications
March 15, 2021
Christopher Schlicksup (Zlotnick lab) was first author on Viral structural proteins as targets for antivirals, a paper published in Current Opinion in Virology; and Local Stabilization of Subunit–Subunit Contacts Causes Global Destabilization of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids, a paper published in ACS Chemical Biology.
He was also second author on Rapidly Forming Early Intermediate Structures Dictate the Pathway of Capsid Assembly, a paper published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Visit With Dr. Eranthie Weerapana
February 4, 2021
Please join us for Dr. Eranthie Weerapana’s virtual visit and seminar, hosted by Professor Giedroc, on Friday, February 12.
She is an associate professor of chemistry at Boston College, and her talk is titled “Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines.”
The seminar is set to take place at 2:30 p.m. Following her seminar, at 3:30 p.m., all QCB trainees and any others who may be interested are invited to visit with Dr. Weerapana.
Please find the Zoom link for both the seminar and afterwards here.
Student Invited Speaker: Heather Maynard, Ph.D.
January 22, 2021
Please join us for a seminar with Dr. Heather Maynard from University of California, Los Angeles on February 9, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. on Zoom. A student Q&A portion will follow at 3:30 p.m.
Every year, our QCB trainee cohort selects, organizes and hosts two outside speakers per year (one Fall, one Spring) for the QCB seminar series.
Speaker:
Heather Maynard, Ph.D.
Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Bioengineering
Director, Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program
Associate Director, California NanoSystems Institute
Co-Director, NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
University of California, Los Angeles
Spring QCB Evening, February 1, 2021
January 22, 2021
Join us for the Spring QCB Evening on Monday, February 1st from 5:00-7:00pm on Zoom.
Lily Klapper (VanNieuwenhze Group) will give her talk, “Utilizing Macrocyclic
Depsipeptides to Combat Antibiotic Resistance,”
and Brady Strittmatter, (Hollenhorst Group) will give his talk, “Ras/ERK and PI3K/AKT signaling differentially regulate oncogenic ERG mediated transcription in prostate cells.”
Please find more details, including the Zoom ID, here.
Erdmann Publication
January 19, 2021
Emily Erdmann (Hundley lab) was first author on To protect and modify double-stranded RNA – the critical roles of ADARs in development, immunity and oncogenesis, a paper published in Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
6th Annual IU Chemistry Career Development Symposium
January 4, 2021
Please join us for the 6th Annual IU Chemistry Career Development Symposium, which will be held virtually on January 11, 2021.
This year’s symposium will feature Dr. Kimberly McCoy as a keynote speaker. She is an IU alumna and current freelance science writer and a number of company representatives from BMS, Eli Lily, Waters, and St. Jude’s!
For more details, please visit the IU CDS website, and email IUCDS@indiana.edu with any event questions.
The IU CDS aims to provide our chemistry graduate students and post-docs with insights into available career paths as well as opportunities to establish contacts with potential employers. This graduate student led event will facilitate dialogue between successful professional, potential employers, and students to generate excitement and alleviate confusion in the search for a path after graduate school.
Walsh Publication
December 17, 2020
Brenna Walsh (Giedroc lab) was second author on Structural basis for persulfide-sensing specificity in a transcriptional regulator, a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology.
Perez Publication
December 17, 2020
Dr. Amilcar J. Perez (Winkler lab) was first author on Organization of Peptidoglycan Synthesis in Nodes and Separate Rings at Different Stages of Cell Division of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a paper published in Molecular Microbiology.
