Sept 19, 2023 Congratulations to Chengqian who passed his 5th semester qualifying exam today. He is now officially a PhD candidate!

Aug 17, 2023 The Gerdt lab had our first annual proposal day today! It was a great day of presenting and bouncing off research ideas with the group, and eating lots of yummy food.

Aug 2, 2023 Hooray! The lab has received new funding as an supplement to our R35 MIRA grant from the NIH to study interspecies chemical signaling in protozoans. The additional funding will be used to purchase a confocal imaging reader.

July 21, 2023 Congratulations to Marian for winning a Paget Travel Grant to attend the NOBCChE’s 50th Annual Meeting. Have a fruitful trip!

July 18, 2023 Troy was awarded BOTH the Lynne L. Merritt Fellowship AND the Robert & Marjorie Mann Fellowship. Way to go! We’re proud of you!

April 26, 2023 Soniya Rayi for winning both People’s Choice and 1st place in life sciences for the CEWIT 2023 Women’s Research Poster Competition Eleanor (Ellie) Godlstone for winning the Carl H. Eigenmann Undergraduate Scholarship Aria Gonzalez for winning a summer research fellowship from the American Society of Pharmacognosy Kyle Kwok for winning Harry G. […]

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!

July 15, 2022 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 – December, 2022 Congratulations to Bryan and Julia! They have successfully completed their Master of Science degree and have moved into the workforce. Good luck, Bryan and Julia!

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!

August 4, 2021 Bryan was recently appointed as a research fellow under Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM) Fellowship Program while Zhiyu was awarded for C500 Award at the Chemistry Departmental Award Ceremony 2021-2022. Congratulations to both!

April 12, 2021 Congratulations to Ria who recently passed her 5th semester qualifying exam. She is now officially a PhD candidate!

June 30, 2020 Hooray! The lab has received an R35 MIRA grant from the NIH to study interspecies chemical signaling in protozoans!

June 1, 2020 Congratulations to Ria who was recently appointed a research fellow under the QCB training grant! The Quantitative and Chemical Biology training program is an effort to increase research at the interface of chemistry and biology. Student recruits represent six IU departments across a variety of disciplines. She will study chemical signalling in […]