Nov 7, 2022 Congratulations to Marian who recently passed her 5th semester qualifying exam. She is now officially a PhD candidate!

September 7, 2022 Congratulations to Soniya Rayi for winning an IUB Provost’s Travel Award for Women in Science to attend the @2022Biofilms meeting! Well deserved, have a fruitful trip!

August 16, 2022 Congratulations to Marian Addo! Marian was selected to receive the AI Award for 2022. Great job Marian!

Congratulations to Ria for winning a Paget Travel Grant from IU and an ASP Travel Award for the American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting. Well deserved!

July 1, 2022 Congratulations to Bryan! He has successfully completed his Master of Science degree and has moved into the workforce. Good luck Bryan!

May 18, 2022 Congratulations to Soniya who recently passed her 5th semester qualifying exam. She is now officially a PhD candidate!

December 15, 2021 Hooray! The lab has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to study how metabolites influence bacteriophage infectivity.

November 1, 2021 The Gerdt lab is thrilled to have Dr. Ruibao Li joining us! Ruibao got his PhD in choanoflagellate biology. The group is excited to apply Ruibao’s choanoflagellate expertise in our current projects while Ruibao aims to discover choanoflagellate-bacteria interactions.

October 28, 2021 Congratulations to Zhiyu (Troy) who was awarded a John R. and Wendy L. Kindig Fellowship from the College! Troy will study bacterial metabolites’ effect on bacteriophage infection.

September 28, 2021 Congratulations to Zhiyu (Troy) who recently passed his 5th semester qualifying exam. He is now officially a PhD candidate!