About the Speaker:

Bio:

David Giedroc earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from the Pennsylvania State University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1984. Following a postdoctoral stint as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of the late Joseph Coleman at Yale University, he joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University in 1988. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University in 2007, and served as Chair of Department from 2010-2015. Prof. Giedroc is a Fellow of the AAAS, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Research Interests:

The Giedroc Group’s discovery-focused research group is organized under a common umbrella we term the chemical and physical biology of infectious disease. Their work is ongoing in two primary projects: 1) transition metal homeostasis (metallostasis) in bacterial pathogens; 2) hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) sensing and reactive sulfur species (RSS) in the major nosocomial pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Enterococcus facaelis and Acinetobacter baumannii. The Giedroc group seeks a molecular-level understanding of macromolecular structure, dynamics and regulation, and uses the tools of biophysical chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, proteomic profiling and NMR structure determination to advance these projects. For more information, please visit the Giedroc Research Group website.