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 […]

March 13, 2020 The Gerdt lab is very excited to have our new postdoc Dr. Kyoung Jin Park joining us. Kyoung Jin obtained his PhD in Natural Product Chemistry on plants. The group is eager to learn the analytical skills from Kyoung jin while Kyoung Jin is (hopefully) excited to grow different bacterial species with […]

November 5, 2019 The Gerdt lab has made some cool progress with Rotation 2 students. And now, Rotation 3 students are here with us! Ayesha Amjad Edie Sharon Basia Walenkiewicz Welcome aboard!

October 14, 2019 The Gerdt lab has had a great time and accomplished a lot with our Rotation 1 students. We are super excited for Rotation 2! Isel Rivera Jo Marie Hontz Lohman Sarah Wilder Welcome aboard!

September 25, 2019 The Gerdt lab is excited to have our first batch of rotation students starting this week! Students will have the opportunity to work on their project of interest and have fun in the process. Jarrett Maurer Soniya Rayi Zhiyu Zang Welcome aboard!