News and Events

Adam is the Harriot College’s recipient of the 2022-23 ECU Scholar Teacher Award!

12/08/2022

06/10/2022

The lab welcomes our first two PhD students to the group – Ms. Kendall Clerici and Mr. Wyatt Guy!

05/15/2022

Adam was an invited speaker at the XXth International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS) in Canmore Canada

05/03/2022

Congratulations to Ms. Amanda Ohler and Ms. Daniella Roberts on their successful MS thesis defenses! Both did an absolutely fantastic job! Amanda will be joining the Chemistry Department at UW-Madison for a PhD in the fall.

05/01/2022

Welcome to the lab, Evan Brinkley! Evan joins the group as a Master’s student from ECU Biology.

04/11/2022

Adam is awarded the 2022 THCAS Dean’s Early Career Award

06/24/2021

Welcome to the lab, Rachel Signorelli! Rachel joins the group as a Master’s student after enjoying the Biochemistry CURE lab (CHEM 2771) in Fall 2020. Rachel will be studying the structure-function relationships of avian cryptochromes.

05/18/2021

Congrats to Chris Whittington on successfully defending his Master’s thesis! Chris is heading to graduate school at Georgia Tech to obtain his PhD. We’re rooting for ya!

05/17/2021

Welcome to the lab, REU student Melissa Gouge – she joins Amanda and myself as Team ONU at ECU

05/07/2021

Congrats to Kristin Tyson and Grega Popovic on your successful Master’s theses! Grega is heading back home to Slovenia, while Kristin is searching for a position in industry R&D.

12/10/2020

Congrats to Kei Ohgo for successfully defending his Master’s thesis! Kei will be returning to his home town in Japan – we’ll miss you!

Congrats to Daniella Roberts for graduating in the fall semester! She will be joining our lab as a Master’s student in the spring 2021 term.

08/10/2020

Welcome to the lab as a Master’s student, Amanda Ohler! Amanda was a REU student in the summer of 2019. She will be studying allostery in human 15-lipoxygenases

07/01/2020

Dr. Offenbacher was awarded an NSF RUI for the study of the amino acid mediated PCET in biological catalysis and use of novel unnatural 5-hydroxytryptophans

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05/05/2020

Congrats to Undergraduate students David Murray, Claire Fabian-Bayola, and Nathan Findling for graduating! Good luck on the next steps!!

01/21/2020

Congrats to David Murray for being awarded an ECU Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award (URCA)!

12/01/2019

Drs. Offenbacher (PI) and Hudson (co-I) were awarded an NIH R15 for the molecular study of fibrinogen!

7/26/2019

Undergraduate student, Juan Pablo Fabian, from Elizabeth City State U. presents a poster of his work on 15LOX2 protein-protein interactions during the Summer Biomedical Research Program (SBRP)!

7/26/2019

Undergraduate student, Amanda Ohler (center), from Ohio Northern U. presents a poster of her work on chemoenzymatic synthesis of UAAs during our department’s inaugural NSF REU program! 

7/7-13/2019

Adam presents invited talk at Isotopes 2019 conference in Raitenhaslach, Germany

5/13/2019

Welcome to the lab: Andrea (PhD candidate) and Grega (MS candidate)!

5/3/2019

The Offenbacher lab bids farewell to several excellent students: Amanda, Anastasiia, Kate, and Tessa.  Congrats to all!!

4/15/2019

Anastasiia successfully defends her MS thesis!

3/11/2019

Claire, Kate and Kristin were all awarded URCA research grants! Congrats!!

1/7/2019

Adam visits NOLA for 50th Anniversary of the Enzyme Mechanisms Conference

L–>R: Profs. John Latham (U. Denver), Adam, Judith Klinman (UC Berkeley), and Jianyu Zhang (Tianjin U)

9/5/2018:

Anastasiia passes her Masters Thesis Proposal defense!

8/15/2018:

Kei Ohgo joins the lab as Masters student!

5/5/2018:

Adam presents invited talk at 31st Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) Congress in Hangzhou, China.

Adam also visits Tsinghua University, Tianjin University and ICCAS

Beijing ‘Great Wall’

5/1/2018:

Our first Masters’ student, Anastasiia Kostenko, a Fulbright scholar from Ukraine, joined the lab!!!

11/30/2017:

Claire received a UNC-wide George T. Barthalmus undergraduate research grant!

10/15/2017:

Amy was awarded a department C.U.R.E. award!