2019 Lab News Archive

December 2019

Chemistry graduate student Mark Gabriana has joined the lab. Welcome, Mark!

November 2019

Alex, Verna, and Aaron all presented at the Mid-Atlantic Metallotherapeutics Symposium at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

The lab was featured in a recent UMBC News Article. Read the article here.

Our paper on the FeoC [4Fe-4S] cluster was just accepted in Biochemistry! Read the paper here.

October 2019

Aaron visited the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at George Mason University.

September 2019

Aaron visited the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware.

Verna passed her qualifying exams and is now a PhD candidate! WAY TO GO!

August 2019

The lab welcomes rotation student Mark Gabriana!

Our R35 MIRA from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH-NIGMS) was funded! Way to go, lab!

Aaron presented at ICBIC-19 in Interlaken, Switzerland on our latest pre-print (the FeoC Fe-S cluster).

July 2019

Our pre-print about the [4Fe-4S] cluster in E. coli FeoC was just released in ChemRxiv! Read the pre-print here.

June 2019

Aaron presented at the Young Researcher's Conference (YRC) at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

May 2019

Rick's paper on the Klebsiella pneumoniae FeoA was accepted in Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics! Read the paper here.

Aaron, Alex, and Verna all presented at MARM 2019!

The lab welcomes summer students Korliss Britt and Victor Omokehinde!

Alex and Verna presented at FCBIS 12, and Aaron chaired a session at FCBIS 12 at NIH in Bethesda, MD. What a great meeting!

April 2019

Verna has passed her lab prospectus! CONGRATULATIONS!

Pleased to announce that the lab has landed an NSF CAREER Award for our work on Fe²⁺. WAY TO GO, TEAM!

March 2019

The lab has been awarded a Career Development Grant from the American Heart Association! Pleased, humbled, and eager to get to work!

January 2019

The lab's newest grant (R21 NIH-NIDCR) was awarded and profiled by UMBC news!

Alex successfully passed her candidacy exam! WAY TO GO!

The lab's first preprint (Rick and Alex's FeoA structure paper) was available on bioRxiv.