December 14, 2011 – The lab held its annual holiday party at the Dann house with hot pot selections prepared by the lab to eat! Pictures will be posted soon on the lab photos page. December 14, 2011 – The lab welcomes Siobhan Deis! Siobhan is a student in the Bichemistry gradute program at the […]

November 14, 2011 – Ardian Soca Wibowo became the first member of the Dann laboratory to complete a Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Soca!! November 10, 2011 – Iris Dong is now officially a Ph.D. candidate! Congratulations to Iris for successfuly presenting and defending her proposed thesis research!! November 3, 2011 – A grant proposal submitted by […]

October 28-30, 2011 – CD3 presented the lab’s research at the Protein Data Bank 40th anniversary symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Labs in New York. The event featured pioneers in X-crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. October 15, 2011 – The 2nd Annual Watanabe Symposium in Biotechnology is held at Indiana University. This year, the lab served […]

September 17, 2011 – The lab held a send-off party for Deblina at the Dann clan house. The event featured Indian food from Shanti followed by karaoke “singing” by many in the lab as per Deblina’s request. We capped a fun evening with Kinect games that included random jumping/dodging and dancing. As always, a site […]

July 28, 2011 – Mirage Singh joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow with training in protein crystallography. See his profile on the Members page for more info. July 26, 2011 – CD3 picks up Mirage Singh and his spouse, Sarita, at the Indianapolis airport. Welcome to the United States, Mirage! July 15, 2011 – […]

June 27, 2011 – A somewhat random note – Alex, Soca and CD3 went to Indianapolis to pick up a free liquid nitrogen cooling system (X-STREAM) for crystal cryo-cooling during X-ray data collection. This system, which matches our current cooling systems, will serve as a spare cooling system. It was quite the feat to fit […]

May 16, 2011 – Paige Matthews, a sophomore biochemistry major, begins research in the lab. A warm welcome to Paige, who will be working throughout the summer and beyond alongside Xiaohui!

March 25-26, 2011 – The Department of Chemistry held its graduate recruiting weekend with more than 60 students in attendance! Thanks to everyone who volunteered to make this event a success!! March 4-5, 2011 – The Biochemistry graduate program held its recruiting weekend. Among the student that the lab hosted, Elizabeth Arcus, Siobhan Deis, and […]

February 2-4, 2011 – CD3 was in Carlsbad, California, to look at available automation equipment from Rigaku. The goal of this visit is to make final recommendations for equipment to include in a METACyt grant proposal to set up a high throughput automation facility for macromolecular crystallography at IUB.

January 12, 2011 – A new low volume isothermal titration calorimeter was installed in the lab today! This instrument, the nanoITC from TA Instruments, will allow binding experiments to be carried out with 0.3 mL samples volumes. Standard ITC instruments use approximately 2 mL per experiment.