Educational Resources

We are now providing educational resources to our global bioinorganic chemistry community. In addition to serving as an aggregator that provides links to publicly available material, we are developing SBIC specific resources including lectures that promote subject matter in biological inorganic chemistry. These new resources such as lectures, flash cards and other materials can be found in the SBIC members area. Please contact us if you have educational resources that you would like to publicize through SBIC.

In early 2021, many members of our community contributed their lectures to this initiative, which we are highly grateful for. The lectures by Melissa Zastrow on the gut metallobiome and by Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb on chlorophyll biosynthesis are available below. In the fall of 2024, Rachel Coddgave a lectureon isolation of siderophores available below. For the remaining lectures log in to the Members Only Area and find the link to 'Member Content' or follow this link to SBIC Educational Resources.

Rachel Codd - Bioinorganic Chemistry as a Platform to Develop New Drug Discovery Technologies
Alison Butler - Marine Siderophores
Tom O’Halloran - Cu/Zn Homeostasis
David Giedroc - Heavy Metal Gene Regulation
Melissa Zastrow - Gut Metallobiome
Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb - Chlorophyll Biosynthesis
Dave Britt - Hydrogenase and Cofactor Biosynthesis
Tim Stemmler - FeS cluster Assembly
Peggy Carver - Metal Concentrations and Infectious Diseases
Kathy Franz - Metals and Azole Antimicrobials
Alejandro Vila - beta-Lactamases and drug resistance
Christian Hartinger - Bioorganometallic Chemistry and Drug Design
Nicolai Lehnert - Hemes and nitrogen metabolism
Anabella Ivancich - Trp and Tyr radicals in the chemistry of heme proteins
Sarah Michel - Protein RNA interactions
Vickie DeRose - Pt RNA Adducts
Dani Gibson - Pt(II) and Pt(IV) Anticancer drugs
Chris Orvig - Metal Based Imaging Agents
Andy Borovik - Protein Design in Natural Scaffolds
Karl Koebke - de Novo Protein Design of Cupredoxins
Markos Koutmos - Cobalamin and Methionine Synthase
Alison Narayan - Metalloenzyme "Bundles" for biosynthesis

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MPI Summer School: Methods in Molecular Energy Research: Theory and Spectroscopy

Since 2013, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion organizes a Summer School "Methods in Molecular Energy Research: Theory and Spectroscopy" once a year, alternating between the three departments. The school aims at teaching students various research methods and at fostering exchange between students and scientists.