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Events in the Barondeau Lab
Kudos
December 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Seth Cory for his graduation and his new position as a PBI Sales Representative for South Texas with VWR, part of Avantor. We will miss you, and wish you the best of luck with your future career!-
Fall 2019 Science Demo at the Chemistry Open House!
In celebration of National Chemistry Week, the Texas A&M Chemistry Department hosts a free Chemistry Open House. This year, the Barondeau Group joined to demonstrate how to make Lava Lamps!
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October 2019: Congratulations to Seth Cory for successfully defending his Ph. D.!Kudos
September 2019: Congratulations to Shachin Patra on his publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. "Mechanism of activation of the human cysteine desulfurase complex by frataxin".-
Summer 2019 Science Demos at Scotty's House!
Seth Cory demonstrating how to make Elephant Toothpaste and Lava Lamps with Amy Hockstedler, Shelby Oney, and Seth Van Andel for the children at Scotty's House.
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April 2019: Congratulations to Deepika Das and Shachin Patra on their publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. "Mechanism of frataxin "bypass" in human iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis with implications for Friedreich's ataxia".
New Member
March 2019: Welcome to our new Post-Doc Manas Ghosh!New Member
November 2018: Welcome to our new graduate student Amy Hockstedler!New Members
October 2018: Welcome to our new graduate students Shelby Oney and Elisa Ferrara!Kudos
July 2018: Congratulations to Seth Cory for winning the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecture Award for his talk in the "Cool Structures" session at the American Crystallographic Association conference in Toronto on July 24th!-
Summer 2018 Science Demos at Scotty's House!
Seth Cory demonstrating how to make Elephant Toothpaste with Dr. Barondeau for the children at Scotty's House.
Kudos
July 2018: Congratulations to Seth Cory for being selected to give a talk in the “Cool Structures” session at the American Crystallographic Association conference in Toronto on July 24th!Kudos
June 2018: Congratulations to Seth Cory for winning Helmut Beinert (the father of Fe-S cluster research) poster prize at the 39th Steenbock Symposium!New Member
June 2018: Welcome to incoming graduate student Shelby Oney to the group, good luck on your summer research project!Kudos
June 2018: Graduate students Seth Van Andel and Jeff Lin are traveling to the amazing Penn State Workshop Click here for more.Kudos
May 2018: Congratulations to Shachin Patra for successfully defending his Ph. D.!Kudos
January 2018: Congratulations to Shachin Patra for being selected to give a talk at the Texas Enzyme Mechanisms Conference! "The Role of Frataxin in Iron Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis and Its Implication in Neurodegenerative Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia".New Member
October 2017: Welcome to our new graduate student Cheng-Wei (Jeff) Lin!Graduating student
December 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Deepika Das! She successfully defended her PhD and will start a position at Oxford college, Emory University in August 2018. You are already missed!Kudos
Summer 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory for having his structure for the human cysteine desulfurase complex highlighted by SSRL! Read more.Kudos
Summer 2017: Congratulations to Deepika Das for winning the Teaching-as-Research fellowship awarded by the Center for the Integration of Research, Training, and Learning (CIRTL).New Member
Summer 2017: Welcome to our new research assistant Steven Havens!Kudos
Summer 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory and Professor Barondeau for being highlighted by the Texas A&M University’s College of Science.Kudos
September 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory, Shachin Patra, and Professor Barondeau for their publication being recommended by Faculty of 1000. Read more.Kudos
Summer 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Vranish for his selection for a talk at the ACS National Meeting in Washington DC. In addition, congratulations to Dr. Vranish on his recent publications in Glycoconjugate Journal and Nanoscale, and even bigger congratulations, and good luck, as he begins his career as an assistant professor at Ave Maria University in the Department of Chemistry!
Funding
June 2017: Our NIH grand “Structure and mechanism of human Fe-S cluster assembly complex” has been renewed for another four years.
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June 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory and Shachin Patra on their publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. “Structure of human Fe-S assembly subcomplex reveals unexpected cysteine desulfurase architecture and acyl-ACP-ISD11 interactions".Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory for winning the JEMS Scholarship for Collaborative Research in Chemistry. This award will support his upcoming to trip to MIT to spend time working with collaborators Dr. Edward Brignole and Professor Catherine Drennan.Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Seth Cory for being selected to give a talk at the 2017 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Seth will also be receiving a travel award from ACA, Mitigen, and Rigaku and the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award from the Light Sources Special Interest Group.Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Bridwell-Rabb for her recent publications in PNAS and Nature, and even bigger congratulations, and good luck, as she begins her career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Chemistry!Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Wenting (Ella) Mo for winning the Freshman Award TAMU Undergraduate Chemists.Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Eric Redondo who is being sponsored this summer by Intel as a GEM MS fellow in graphics engineering and will start graduate school in the at Stanford University.Kudos
Spring 2017: Congratulations to Katherine Senn who will start graduate school at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the fall!
Publication
November 2016: Congratulations to Deepika and Dr. James Vranish (PhD 2015) for their accepted manuscript in ACS Chemical Biology "Real-time Kinetic Probes Support Monothiol Glutaredoxins As Intermediate Carriers in Fe-S Cluster Biosynthetic Pathways".Kudos
October 2016: Congratulations to Seth Cory on winning a poster prize at the A.I. Scott Medal Symposium for Biological Chemistry.Graduating student
June 2016: Congratulations to Dr. D.J. Martin! He successfully defended his PhD and will be joining Lisam Systems in August. We learned a lot from you, and you will be missed!New Students
June 2016: Welcome to new graduate student Seth Van Andel!New Students
June 2016: Welcome to 2016 Summer REU students Laura Billy (Texas A&M University) and Luis Macias (Houston Baptist University).
Upcoming event
June 2016: Deepika and Shachin will be giving poster presentations at the 2016 Metallocofactors GRC.Upcoming event
May 2016: Congratulations to Seth Cory for being selected to give a talk at the Penn State Bioinorganic Workshop.Upcoming event
December 2015: Congratulations to D.J. and Seth Cory! D.J. was selected to give a research presentation and Seth was selected to give a Data Blitz talk at the Bioinorganic Chemistry GRS.Kudos
November 2015: Congratulations to D.J. and Seth Cory! They were awarded Travel Award Scholarships to attend the 2016 Metals in Biology GRC and Bioinorganic Chemistry GRS in Ventura, CA, where they both will present posters.Kudos
August 2015: D.J. recently placed 2nd in the BASF Graduate Student Symposium poster session. Congrats! D.J. recently placed 2nd in the BASF Graduate Student Symposium poster session. Congrats!Kudos
October 2015:Congratulations to Shachin and D.J. for winning prizes for their poster presentations at the 7th annual A.I. Scott Research Symposium!Kudos
July 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Jimmy V! He was awarded a Research Associateship at the Naval Research Laboratory in DC. Jimmy-V will work with Dr. Igor Medintz starting in the fall. Good luck James! You will be missed!New Students
June 2015: Welcome to 2015 summer REU students Steven Havens (Texas A&M University) and Kathy Senn (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh).
Publication
May 2015: Congratulations to Nick and Deepika for their recently published Biochemistry article "Frataxin accelerates [2Fe-2S] cluster formation on the human Fe-S assembly complex."Publication
May 2015: Congratulations to Nick for his recently published Biochemistry article "The human iron-sulfur assembly complex catalyzes the synthesis of [2Fe-2S] clusters on ISCU2 that can be transferred to acceptor molecules."Funding
May 2015: Our NSF grant CHE-1508269 "Macromolecular juggling by a prokaryotic Fe-S assembly system," has been recommended for funding by the Division of Chemistry starting in July 2015.Kudos
April 2015: Former graduate student Nick Fox (PhD 2014) has recently taken a new position as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with Dr. Wyatt Yue at Oxford University in collaboration with the Pfizer Rare Diseases Research Unit.Graduating student
December 2014: Another doctor?! Congratulations to Dr. James Vranish, who successfully defended his PhD.
Publication
December 2014: Congratulations to James, and previous undergraduates Lusa and Rachael, for their recently published manuscript in JACS.New Students
November 2014: We would like to welcome Seth Cory to the group.
Publication
July 2014: Congratulations to Drs. Chi-Lin, Jennifer, Nickelous for their recently accepted manuscript in Biochemistry.Graduating student
May 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Michaella Levy! She successfully defended her PhD. Good luck with the FDA!Graduating student
April 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Nickelous Fox! He successfully defended his PhD. So sad to see the 'Lab Stud' leave!New Students
December 2013: We would like to welcome new group students in the group: Hyeran Choi and Trang Nguyen.New Students
June 2013: We would like to welcome new group members: REU students Elisa James and Rachael Cox.Upcoming event
May 2013: James and Nick will be presenting their work at the 7th International Conference on Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis and Regulation. Nick was selected to give a talk (see picture).Graduating student
April 2013: Congratulations to Melissa who successfully defended her Master's thesis. Whoop Melissa!New Students
October 2012: Welcome to the new graduate students in the group: Robert Hoyuela and Deepika Das.Kudos
Michaella has accepted a postdoctoral position at the FDA that starts in the Fall of 2012. Good luck Michaella!Kudos
May 2012: Jennifer was awarded the Sharon Dabney Memorial Scholarship from Phi Lambda Upsilon. Congratulations!Upcoming event
July 2012: James and Nick will be presenting their work at the Gordon Research Conference: Enzymes, Cofactors & Metabolic Pathways in July.Read moreNew Students
May 2012: We would like to welcome new group members: REU students Lusa Yi and Ryan Lake (both starting May 29th) and incoming chemistry graduate student Robert Hoyuela (starting July 2nd).
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May 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Barondeau! His promotion to Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure has been approved by the Board of Regents.
Travel
May/June 2012: D.J. and Shachin will be attending the Bioinorganic Training Workshop at Penn State.
Publication
February 2012: Congratulations to Jennifer for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Effector Role Reversal during Evolution: The Case of Frataxin in Fe–S Cluster Biosynthesis." Biochemistry has chosen to highlight this article on their home page. Read MoreNew Students
October 2011: Welcome to the new graduate students in the group: Shachin Patra and Travis HooperKudos
October 2011: Jennifer has accepted a postdoctoral position with Cathy Drennan at MIT starting next summer. Congratulations Jennifer!Upcoming events
Michaella and Nick will present their work at the 67th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting in November 2011.
Publication
July 2011: Congratulations to Jennifer and Andrew for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Structure-function analysis of Friedreich's ataxia mutants reveals determinants for frataxin binding and activation of the Fe-S assembly complex."Read MorePublication
June 2011: Congratulations to Chi-Lin and Jennifer for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Friedreich's ataxia variants I154F and W155R diminish frataxin-based activation of the iron-sulfur cluster assembly complex."Read MoreUpcoming events
Jennifer will present her work at the Gordon conference in July 2011. Michaella will present her work at 59th annual ASMS conference in May 2011.Gordon Conference ASMSFunding
February 2011: Our NIH applications "Structure and mechanism of the human Fe-S cluster assembly complex" scored in the first percentile with a priority score of 11. Funding will likely start in the summer of 2011.Graduating student
January 2011: Congratulations to Chi-Lin who successfully defended his dissertation. Dr. Tsai will start a post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory later in the spring.Funding
December 2010: Our American Heart Association grant "Deciphering normal and aberrant function for clinical variants associated with Fe-S assembly and heart disease" scored a 2.78% and will be funded in January 2011.
Publication
October 2010: Congratulations to Chi-Lin for his accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Human frataxin is an allosteric switch that activates the Fe-S cluster biosynthetic complex". Biochemistry has chosen to highlight this article on their home page.Read MoreNew Students
Fall 2010: We have welcomed in two new students: Melissa Thorstad and D.J. Martin.Funding
April 2010: Our Robert A. Welch foundation grant " Structure and chemistry of DNA repair enzyme spore photoproduct lyase" was funded for 2 years starting in June 2010.
Publication
March 2010: Congratulations to Jennifer on her co-first author manuscript "The KaiA protein of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator is modulated by a redox-active cofactor" published in the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA Read More
We've moved to ILSB
January 2010: We have moved from the Chemistry Building to our space in the newly constructed ILSB. Read more