August 2024: Welcome to our fall crop of undergrads! Izabella Soswa, Sam Raja and Khushi Rao are joining us from Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Neurobiology.
July 2024: We are grateful to be awarded a Showalter grant to work on microcompartments!
June 2024: Welcome to our summer REU student, Tripp, from Cornell Physics!
May 2024: Welcome to Sam Hartzler, a new grad student joining us from Bio to work on bacterial microcompartments
January 2024: We are excited to be joining the Eli Lilly strategic partnership - thanks for bringing us on board
December 2023: Welcome Dr. Kristy Rochon, our second postdoc! Kristy comes to us from the Meers lab at Case Western, with a background in Cryo-EM.
September 2023: Welcome Dr. Hongjia Li, our first postdoc! Hongjia will be joint between us and the Huang group in BME and has a background in image processing.
August 2023: It's the start of fall semester and new lab members! Welcome to Shreya Mukherji (GS, Bio), Keith Meyers (UG) and Morgan Stephens (UG).
June 2023: Welcome to our summer undergrads, Phil Mancino and Forrest Lee
June 2023: Congratulations to Ryan Gray on his T32 training grant spot
May 2023: Welcome to Debbie Mettle, a new grad student joining us from Bio
May 2023: Thank you to Purdue SPARK for funding a new collaboration on bunyaviruses
March 2023: Thank you to Indiana CTSI for funding a new collaboration on bunyaviruses
December 2022: Congratulations Eesha on your graduation and new job at Intel
November 2022: Welcome Ryan Gray, our first grad student from the Chemistry department
September 2022: Congratulations to Andrew Pranger for his Best Poster award at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Cyberinfrastructure Symposium
August 2022: Welcome Rose Wilfong, our new grad student joining us from Biological Sciences
August 2022: Dr. Metskas receives a 23 PAIR award from BioCrossroads
May 2022: Welcome to our new research technician, Tripti Bera, and our summer undergraduate student Andrew Pranger. The lab is growing...
April 2022: Welcome to the first graduate student in the Metskas lab, Derik Randall Lovejoy, joining us from the Biological Sciences department!
January 2022: The carboxysome paper sees daylight: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.24.477598v1
January 2022: Welcome undergraduate researchers Eesha Deepak, Jianjun Lang and Lanqing Zhao!
January 2022: Dr. Metskas is awarded a New Innovators Award from NIAID.
August 2021: The Metskas Lab opens its doors.
Welcome
Our group’s research focuses around functional protein ultrastructures, such as protein lattices involved in pathogen-host interaction. We use a mixture of structural biology, biophysics and chemistry to study these systems and design new experimental methods.