Congrats to Soniya on her PhD candidacy exam!
May 18, 2022
Congratulations to Soniya who recently passed her 5th semester qualifying exam. She is now officially a PhD candidate!
New grant to the Gerdt lab!
December 15, 2021
Hooray! The lab has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to study how metabolites influence bacteriophage infectivity.
Welcome on board, Dr. Ruibao Li!
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.
Congrats to Zhiyu (Troy) on his fellowship!
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.
Congrats to Zhiyu (Troy) on his PhD candidacy exam!
September 28, 2021
Congratulations to Zhiyu (Troy) who recently passed his 5th semester qualifying exam. He is now officially a PhD candidate!
Congrats to our award recipients Bryan and Zhiyu (Troy)!
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!
Congrats to Ria on her PhD candidacy exam!
April 12, 2021
Congratulations to Ria who recently passed her 5th semester qualifying exam. She is now officially a PhD candidate!
New grant to the Gerdt lab!
June 30, 2020
Hooray! The lab has received an R35 MIRA grant from the NIH to study interspecies chemical signaling in protozoans!
Congrats to Ria on her QCB fellowship!
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 a unicellular protozoan in the project titled “Elucidating Cell-Cell Signaling Mechanisms in Capsaspora owczarzaki: A Potential Agent against Schistosomiasis”.
Welcome on board, Dr. Kyoung Jin Park!
March 13, 2020
Last but not least… Rotation 3!
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!
Rotation 2!
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!
New rotation students!
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!
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