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Fantastic science this weekend at @iuqcb.bsky.social's Watanabe Symposium. Our grad student @jsrocchio.bsky.social even won the student poster competition! Thanks to @tripletstatesguy.bsky.social, @glycocode.bsky.social and all other speakers for great talks! #IUresearch
April 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our very talented undergrad, Clare Frawley, presented her first poster today at the Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference! 📊 🌟 Clare has been working with our grad student @jsrocchio.bsky.social on unnatural amino acid incorporation for live-cell cross linking studies! #IUResearch
December 6, 2024 at 9:07 PM
@betainverse.bsky.social, our former research scientist, is now the Director of the METACyt Biomolecular NMR Laboratory! She'll oversee the training and operation of our state-of-the-art 600 MHz and newly installed 800 MHz Bruker Ascend instruments. Congratulations, Katie! 🧲 #NMR #IUResearch
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
📅 Save the date!
1️⃣ Fri, Apr 11: 1st Annual Undergrad. Chemical Biology Symposium
Talks, poster session, facility tour, pizza, no registration!
2️⃣ Sat, Apr 12: 14th Annual Watanabe Symposium
Talks, lunch, poster session, registration required!
Questions? avemcfar@iu.edu or acbach@iu.edu
#IUResearch
March 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our annual QCB fellowship competition for 2025 is now open! We're offering 3-5 awards for PhD students in QCB trainer labs, including 1-2 for international students. Apply by April 13, 2025, midnight. Spread the word!🧑‍🔬 #QCBFellowship #IUResearch #PhDFunding iuqcb.indiana.edu/about/traine...
Trainee Fellowship Competition – QCB
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March 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Dr. Brad Fulton, one of OCE’s lab directors, was recently recognized for his research on philanthropy and racism. Congratulations, Dr. Fulton!
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#nonprofitresearch #philanthropy #socialimpact #equityinfunding #iuresearch #leadership | Observing Civic Engagement Lab
🎉 Big congratulations to Brad R. Fulton from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington! Brad was the recipient of the 2025 RGK‑ARNOVA President’s Award!...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Join us Fri., Mar. 14th at Microphiles from 12:40-1:40 in SH 001 for a talk by QCB Ambassador Averi McFarland from the Winkler Lab! Lets show our support and learn more about her research: “Linking Peptidoglycan Elongation to Metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae.” 🦠🧫👩‍🔬🔬 #WomeninMicro #IUResearch
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Shoutout to our crystallographer Giovanni Gonzalez-Gutierrez (IU Biochemistry), NMR lead
@betainverse.bsky.social (former lab member, now METACyt NMR director), and our first-time MD collaborator Philip Shushkov (IU Chemistry). Amazing teamwork! #IUResearch tinyurl.com/3wxchjhp
CH•••S hydrogen bonds drive molecular recognition of ergothioneine by the microbial transporter
Alkyl CH•••S hydrogen bonding interactions enable selective transport of the antioxidant ergothioneine into bacterial cells.
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March 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Huge congratulations to the most recent PhD in our lab, @jsrocchio.bsky.social, on his first-author paper in ACS Infectious Diseases! Joey built this beautiful toolkit for probing peptidoglycan biosynthesis and antibiotic action in A. baumannii cells. 🦠 #IUResearch tinyurl.com/46d8x9eb
Monitoring UDP-MurNAc (UM)-Stem Peptide Intermediates from the Cellular and Recombinant Acinetobacter baumannii MurCDEF Pathway
Increasing multidrug resistance in nosocomial, opportunistic bacterial pathogens motivates a need to exploit metabolic pathways of therapeutic value. Here, we describe a one-pot reconstitution of the ...
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March 18, 2026 at 3:48 PM
A new study co-authored by Dr. Wura Jacobs examines the association between adverse childhood experiences and adult binge drinking, with a focus on the moderating role of race and ethnicity.⁠
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Click the link to read the full study

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40553298/
#IUResearch #AHS #IU
July 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
📚 New research led by Dr. Alyssa Lederer explores how individual and group health behaviors relate to academic achievement among U.S. college students.⁠ 🎓
⁠Click the link to read! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40498749/
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#IUResearch #AppliedHealthSciences #AcademicSuccess#PublicHealthMatters #IU
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New research from Bing-Jie Yen, PhD student in Health Behavior! 🎓
“Psychotropic medication continuation during pregnancy and risk of postpartum self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.”

Read here 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41106618/

#IUResearch #AppliedHealthScience #HealthBehavior
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🧠💓 New study co-authored by Dr. Nana Gletsu Miller explores how choline intake links to heart disease and why accurate measurement matters!

🔗 Click the link to read pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40645422/

#IUResearch #HeartHealth #NutritionScience #IUSPHB
July 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New research co-authored by Dr. Nana Gletsu-Miller and Dr. Lisa Spence explores how wearing dentures impacts diet quality and nutrient intake using the Healthy Eating Index 🦷🥦
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Click to read the full study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40604813/

#NutritionResearch #HealthyEatingIndex #IUResearch
July 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New publication from Dr. Patrick Quinn challenges common narratives in substance use research: "Opioid and stimulant co-prescribing does not equate to a co-epidemic"

Click the link to read! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40642381/

#IUResearch #PublicHealthMatters #SubstanceUseResearch #IndianaUniversity
July 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New Article by Dr. Wura Jacobs
"Correlates of Recreational and Medicinal Cannabis Use Among Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic Men with Chronic Conditions"

Click to read the full study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40593365/

#IUResearch #IUBloomington #IUHealthStudies #IUFaculty #PublicHealthMatters
July 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Pharmacies can play a key role in saving lives 💉
New study co-authored by Dr. Jon Agley finds that the ASAP intervention increases syringe access and reduces stigma among pharmacy staff.

Read more ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41109671/

#IUResearch #AppliedHealthScience
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📚 New research from the IU Abortion Attitudes Project Team explores how U.S. adults viewed abortion as a (non)essential procedure during the COVID-19 pandemic. 🩺⁠
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Click the link to read the full study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40483506/
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#IUResearch #AppliedHealthSciences #IndianaUniversity
June 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New Article by Dr. Jon Agley & Dr. Dong-Chul Seo:
"Opioid overdose and naloxone administration knowledge and perceived competency in a probability sample of Indiana urban communities with large Black populations"

🔗Click the link to read pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40663522/
#IUResearch #OpioidAwareness
July 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM