Aug 9, 2024 Zhiyu (Troy) successfully defended his thesis and is now officially Dr. Zang!

July 10, 2024 Congratulations to Marian for winning the Executive Dean’s Travel Award for Women in Science. She is going to attend the 2024 NOBCChE conference in September.

June 24, 2024 Congratulations to Chengqian Zhang for being awarded the Slagle Fellowship and Lynne L. Merritt Award!  

June 6, 2024 Ria successfully defended her thesis and is now officially Dr. Kidner!

May 16, 2024 Congratulations to Yanyao who passed his 5th semester qualifying exam today. He is now officially a PhD candidate!

Apr 26, 2024 Congrats to Dr. Gerdt for being named as the  Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!

Apr 5, 2024 Kyle was admitted to the UC Berkeley Amgen Scholars Program at the University of California – Berkeley. Congratulations Kyle!

Apr 5, 2024 Congratulations to Ellie for being awarded the Chemistry Summer Research Fellowship to work in the Gerdt Lab!

Nov 29, 2023 Congrats to Dr. Gerdt for being awarded Indiana University Bloomington Trustees Teaching Award!

Oct 13, 2023 Congrats to Zhiyu (Troy) for being awarded the Victor Liu Graduate Fellowship from the College of Arts & Sciences!

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!