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Happy to have our brand new Bren lab members here!!! 🎉 Welcome Rohith and Liz, excited to see some cool science our new grads will create!!🥂🥳

Now official: we’re looking for postdocs for 2026 and beyond. If you want to use your synbio skills and the growing Microbe-Mineral Atlas to build cutting-edge biomining technologies read more below: docs.google.com/document/d/1... And apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30906

Shout-out to @karishma11.bsky.social for being awarded the Samuel A. and Ellen F. Lattimore Department Fellowship this year!! Huge congrats!! ✨🙌

So great and honored to see our Bren Lab girls, Karishma @karishma11.bsky.social and Alana meet their Academic Grandpa, Prof. Harry B Gray at GRC Metals in Biology, 2026 presenting their cool work on cytochrome c proteins!!🥂🎓

Cheering on Hafsa Irfan for her summer internship at Biogen, North Carolina, where she contributed to drug development and analysis. Way to go Hafsa!! 👏👩‍🔬

Proud of Maria Fernanda Lizarazo for earning a DAAD Scholarship and spending the summer doing research in Germany 🇩🇪 Welcome back to Bren Lab! ✨

Cheers to Ryan on an incredible defense! One of our amazing mentors and an OG photochemist of the lab! Wishing you all the best for everything that comes next!🥳🥂✨

Happy to share our recent publication presenting methods for photocatalytic hydrogen and carbon dioxide reduction using biomolecular catalysts! Check it out by following this link! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats @kayekuphal.bsky.social on an exciting collaboration with the @matsonlab.bsky.social, exploring some really cool cluster chemistry with electrocatalysis! 👏🎉 Check out their latest work here! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Job #AJO30906, WDR-00055535 Postdoctoral Associate Sustainable Energy and Synthetic Biology, BEE/CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

Catalyzing the light-driven reduction of carbon dioxide and/or protons is an important approach to storing light energy in the form of chemical fuels …

A heterometallic thiomolybdate cluster, Cp*3CoMo2S4 (Cp* = 1,2,3,4,5-pentamethylcyclopentadienide) has been synthesized and identified as a molecular electrocatalyst for proton reduction in dimethylformamide. Compared with its homometallic congener (Cp*3Mo3S4), cobalt incorporation improves activity by lowering the overpotential for proton reduction, consistent with the contrasting catalytic performance of MoS2 and its Co-doped derivative. Isolation of the reduced form of Cp*3CoMo2S4 and subsequent reactivity studies provide insight into the reaction pathway. These findings establish Cp*3CoMo2S4 as a molecular model for extended sulfide materials.