Dr. Arden Baylink is our next QCB & Microbiology Seminar speaker! @baylinklab.bsky.social
🗓️ Wed, April 30 | 🕓 4PM | 📍 CH033
More info: iuqcb.indiana.edu/events/seminar-series/
#QCB #Microbiology #Antibiotics #Biotech #Seminar

The second QCB Evening for the Spring semester will be on Apr. 17th (Thurs.) from 5-6:30PM in SI001. Our two speakers will be Morgan Nyman from the Dann Lab and Joey Rocchio from @giedroclab.bsky.social. See our website for more info. Any student or post-doc is welcome to attend! iuqcb.indiana.edu

📅 Save the date!
1️⃣ Fri, Apr 11: 1st Annual Undergrad. Chemical Biology Symposium
Talks, poster session, facility tour, pizza, no registration!
2️⃣ Sat, Apr 12: 14th Annual Watanabe Symposium
Talks, lunch, poster session, registration required!
Questions? avemcfar@iu.edu or acbach@iu.edu
#IUResearch

Our annual QCB fellowship competition for 2025 is now open! We're offering 3-5 awards for PhD students in QCB trainer labs, including 1-2 for international students. Apply by April 13, 2025, midnight. Spread the word!🧑‍🔬 #QCBFellowship #IUResearch #PhDFunding iuqcb.indiana.edu/about/traine...

Join us Fri., Mar. 14th at Microphiles from 12:40-1:40 in SH 001 for a talk by QCB Ambassador Averi McFarland from the Winkler Lab! Lets show our support and learn more about her research: “Linking Peptidoglycan Elongation to Metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae.” 🦠🧫👩‍🔬🔬 #WomeninMicro #IUResearch

Linear dicentric chromosomes in bacterial natural isolates reveal common constraints for replicon fusion Multipartite bacterial genome organization can confer advantages including coordinated gene regulation and faster genome replication but is challenging to maintain. Agrobacterium tumefaciens lineages ...

QCB member Lauren Augusta (@fuquaclay.bsky.social) is a co-author on a new preprint investigating chromosome fusion in Agrobacterium! This work at @iubiology.bsky.social reveals key constraints on genome evolution. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #PlantPathology #HiC

Join us tomorrow (Tues, Feb. 25th) at the A800 Research Talks from 4-5PM in Chem CH033 for a talk by QCB Trainee Jane Joncha from the Jacobson Lab! Show your support and learn about her research: “Transposon Mutagenesis to Generate Constitutive Fluorescent Labels for Microscopy of B. subtilis.”

QCB trainee Liam Scott co-authored an ACS Nano study creating ultra-bright viral nanoparticles with unprecedented fluorescence uniformity. This work from the Dragnea lab demonstrates innovative viral protein engineering for cutting-edge optical technologies. #Chromophores #Fluorescence #Layers #Nano

En Route to Enantioenriched Quaternary Stereocenters via Lewis Base/Palladium Cooperative Catalysis The prevalence of quaternary stereogenic centers in bioactive molecules coupled with innate challenges associated with their enantioselective preparation continues to provide powerful impetus for the....

Andrew Bach, QCB ambassador, co-authored a paper on quaternary-substituted stereogenic centers via Lewis base-Pd catalysis. This new approach competes with direct deprotonation, advancing asymmetric synthesis techniques. Congrats, Andrew! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#OrganicSynthesis

🔬 QCB trainees Dr. Abigail Garrett and @mkosterb.bsky.social uncover how bacteria fight zinc toxicity! 🦠 New @plos.bsky.social paper reveals 5 small RNAs help Streptococcus pneumoniae survive #MicrobiologyResearch

Targeting the Weak Spot: Preferential Disruption of Bacterial Poles by Janus Nanoparticles The interaction between nanoparticles (NPs) and bacterial cell envelopes is crucial for designing effective antibacterial materials against multi-drug-resistant pathogens. However, the current underst...

🎉 Hunter Richman, one of our QCB trainees, is a co-author on the newly published paper "Targeting the Weak Spot: Preferential Disruption of Bacterial Poles by Janus Nanoparticles." This research explores innovative antibacterial strategies against resistant bacteria. Check it out! shorturl.at/529Cu

Join us tomorrow (Friday November 22nd)  at the Microbiology student seminar series, #Microphiles, from 12:40-1:40 in Simon Hall 001 for a talk by QCB Trainee Lauren Augusta from the Fuqua Lab!  Lets show our support and learn more about her research with Agrobacterium tumefaciens.