Lab alum Kyle Lancaster makes it big!

Kyle Lancaster, a 2005 graduate of the Crane Lab, has been doing great things since graduating.  He received his Ph.D. with the world-famous inorganic chemist Harry Gray (at CalTech), and did a very successful post-doc at Cornell, which culminated in his solving one of the biggest outstanding questions in biochemistry – determining the identity of the central atom in the cofactor of nitrogenase, which was announced in his first author Science paper (spoiler alert, it’s carbon):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6058/974.abstract

Kyle has just recently signed with Cornell University for a more permanent position – this fall he’ll be an assistant professor of chemistry!