Dinner with the Ni group ⁦SERMACS2021⁩ Food was great just like the conference was!

Check out Cu talk tomorrow by Divyansh Prakash at 11:15 am in room J SERMACS2021

At UM Rebs game with another UM sweatshirt bought 15 years ago 😃

We are looking for a postdoctoral scholar to strengthen the artificial metalloenzyme design (bioinorganic) work in my lab. Please share with your colleagues about this opportunity. Here is the job ad!

Congratulations to Suchitra for successfully defending her thesis. Double congratulations for securing a postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins. All the best ⁦⁦@SuchitraMitra5⁩

Congratulations to Dhanashree Selvan for receiving Dissertation Fellowship for the upcoming Spring semester.

It was great to see old friends ⁦Melissa Zastrow⁩ and Gary Jensen ⁦University of Houston⁩ . Thanks for hosting!

Congratulations to Pallavi for successfully defending her Ph.D. She now heads to Regeneron as a Process Scientist. You will be missed!

Incredible and proud moment to Hood the first batch of graduates from my lab Dr. Dhanashree Selvan and Dr. Pallavi Prasad. It was an eventful journey. Congratulations!

Congratulations to a talented batch of Honors undergraduates for completing their thesis research and now moving on to professional lives. Aditya: Amazon; Walker: UT Dental School; Maggie: UMMC Dental School.

I was told some students from my Fall 2020 Biochem class made a “Biochem Study Group”. A time lapse photo from Fall 2020 (top) and Spring 2022 after graduation (bottom). What an amazing picture. Thanks Aditya for sharing this with me. UM Liberal Arts Ole Miss

Check out our recent paper where we show that de novo designed Cu-peptides catalyse the oxidation and peroxygenation of model C-H substrates. We have learned a lot about the chemistry and finer details of the design. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Awesome experience at Eurobic16 it is great to see the exciting international bioinorganic community and be able to speak at the same session with the stalwarts in the field including Vince Pecoraro, Thomas Ward, and representative from Angela Lombardi lab.

It was great to visit IISER Kolkata. Meet an old friend Supratim Datta and make some new. Thank you IISER Kolkata

Had an awesome time at IISc reconnecting with old friends and connecting with new faculty in the new IPC building in the beautiful campus. Thank you Debasis!

It was great to attend the InAdvanCS 2023 conference at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata. Thank you Somdatta, Abhishek, and the students for organising this conference! As always the best part is to interact with the students.

Lu lab dinner at the Metals in Biology GRC. It was great to meet and catch up with all. What a fantastic conference. Thanks to the organisers Kara and Steve!

Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by a De Novo Designed Metalloprotein that Undergoes Ni-Mediated Oligomerization Shift (S. Chakraborty et al.) Saumen Chakraborty onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Congratulations to Divyansh Prakash for becoming Dr. Prakash. Hooding is always an amazing experience. All the best to you as you start your postdoc position Rosenzweig Lab at Northwestern.

Read our latest work on tuning reorganization energies by protein design to control the function of artificial metalloenzymes. Divyansh Prakash nature.com/articles/s4146…