Professor, Penn State Chemistry; Biochemistry and chemical biology of metal homeostasis; Metal bio-separations; Part-time pianist and carillonneur
Joined October 2018
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31 May 2023
Second, just out in @Nature: biochemistry structure separations = showing for the first time how biology discriminates between light and heavy rare earths, using a new lanmodulin. @psu_chemistry @doescience @CMI_hub @NSF
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Join us in celebrating the #ASBMB26 Award Winners! #MakeItPossible
• Monther Abu–Remaileh
• Suzanne Barbour
• @bradylabupenn
• George Carman
• Joseph @CotruvoLab
• @RogerJDavis1
• @RolandDunbrack
• Pamela Mertz
• James @Olzmannlab
• Kim Orth
• Margaret Phillips
Congratulations to the 2026 ASBMB Award Winners!
Through their pioneering work, these scientists are advancing discovery, driving innovation, and shaping the future of molecular life sciences.
Read more about their work: ow.ly/x05f50WSbax. #ASBMB26 #MakeItPossible
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29 Oct 2024
Just out @PNASNews, we characterize a new type of lanthanides-binding protein (a Ln chaperone) and engineer it for separations! Great work by Wyatt Larrinaga and Jonathan Jung, w/ my colleague Amie Boal! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… @psu_chemistry @PSUScience
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12 Sep 2024
Thrilled and humbled to be recognized along with these terrific scientists!! @psu_chemistry @PSUScience
12 Sep 2024
Announcing📣 the Finalists🥈of the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards! Each will receive a prize of $15,000! Congratulations👏👏👏 They will be honored on October 1 at the 2024 @Blavatnikawards gala ceremony held @AMNH blavatnikawards.org/news/ite…
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29 Aug 2024
I am incredibly honored and it was a fantastic afternoon of science!
29 Aug 2024
Congratulations to @CotruvoLab on receiving the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry! Joey headlined an excellent set of talks last week at #ACSFall2024 from the #ACSDBC! Thanks also to @EliLillyandCo for sponsoring this award! #TBT
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1 Jul 2024
Effective today, I am a full professor! Thank you to everyone @psu_chemistry and many other places who have made the last 8 years such a fun journey, and here’s to more fun and many exciting discoveries to come!
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Joey Cotruvo retweeted
18 Apr 2024
What a pleasure hosting @CotruvoLab for an awesome seminar yesterday, dinner fun with @NeugMonicaElena @JeffChem and too cool for Twitter #JohnBerry
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13 Nov 2023
Start your week with a dose of #protein (plus #rocks and #radioactive elements...) 💪🏼☢️🪨!
New paper in @EnvSciTech from our team & @CotruvoLab.
@NNSANews @doescience #actinide #lanmodulin #rareearths #nuclear_waste
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How do radioactive materials behave in the environment? @Livermore_Lab and @penn_state scientists recently found that natural proteins, called lanmodulins, can make radioactive elements more prone to migrate from their initial location: livermorelab.info/49ukPeU
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The #migration of certain #nuclear waste radioisotopes gets a boost from natural #proteins.
Collaboration @Seaborg_LLNL (@Livermore_Lab) @CotruvoLab (@penn_state)
Out now in ES&T: go.acs.org/6Ke
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23 Oct 2023
Congratulations to my student, Wyatt Larrinaga, and to the 5 other @PennState winners of an @NDSEG fellowship this year! @PSUScience @psu_chemistry
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13 Oct 2023
Check out our collaboration with Gareth and Sandy Eaton and Brady Worrell @UofDenver - to the best of our knowledge the first systematic investigation of the EPR of lanthanide(III) ions (besides Gd3 ) bound to complex chelators - out in @Chemistry! chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…
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13 Oct 2023
And congratulations to my student, Wyatt Larrinaga, on his first first-author paper! @PSUScience @psu_chemistry
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25 Sep 2023
Our Grad Program application is now open! All materials need to be submitted by December 1, 2023 for priority review.
For more information on the application process, visit our website: buff.ly/3AH6mNf
@psu_chemistry @penn_state #gradschool #ChemPhD
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1 Sep 2023
Thank you, Squire, and thank you to @ACS_DivBioChem for this honor! The list of prior winners is humbling. I would like to recognize, in particular, my students, postdocs, and collaborators who did so much to make this award possible!
1 Sep 2023
Excited that my colleague, Joey Cotruvo @CotruvoLab, has received the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry from the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry!!! Congratulations Joey!! Well deserved!! @PSUScience @psu_chemistry
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Joey Cotruvo retweeted
10 Aug 2023
Come hear awesome talks @ the #ACSFall2023 Sessler Award Symposium 8/14, Rm 160 South Bldg! AM session: @christhechang @organomimetic @TimothyASu @sheiladavidUCD @uyeda_kylie @AllegraAron @crans3; PM session: @MeadeLabTweets @rdavbritt @m_j_stevenson @CotruvoLab @mattallen12345
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4 Aug 2023
A big shoutout to @wilks_lab and Kerry Kornfeild for organizing the 2023 Cell Biology of Metals GRC. Here is the traditional @GordonConf Lobster dinner with the lobster experts @erinlconnolly1 @metalbiology @Prof_Perlstein @AmyPalmerZinc @CotruvoLab @CarynOutten @DrJPHenderson 🦞
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26 Jun 2023
Hi chemtwitter! We are running a postdoc to PI workshop here at penn state. Our program specifically hopes to build relationships between current postdocs and our faculty! Check it out and please circulate 😁
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21 Jun 2023
"All organisms require certain metals to accomplish cellular processes. They all have to figure out how to selectively bind the metals they need." — #PennState researcher Joey Cotruvo @CotruvoLab, who studies critical rare earth minerals buff.ly/3X91Fpa @psu_chemistry
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6 Jun 2023
Thank you to Mark Peplow and @cenmag for the very nice write-up of our @psu_chemistry / @Livermore_Lab team's recent @Nature paper about a dimerizing lanmodulin leading to improved rare earth element separations! cen.acs.org/analytical-chemi…
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31 May 2023
Second, just out in @Nature: biochemistry structure separations = showing for the first time how biology discriminates between light and heavy rare earths, using a new lanmodulin. @psu_chemistry @doescience @CMI_hub @NSF
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This was a huge effort by an amazing team: Joey Mattocks, with terrific crystallography by Jonathan Jung and Chi-Yun Lin w/ Amie Boal @psu_chemistry @BMB_PSU; Dan Park, Ziye Dong, Christina Kang-Yun @Livermore_Lab; and key work by Neela Yennawar, Emily Featherston, Tim Hamilton.
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And thank you to @ProfScottBanta for the very nice writeup in his News and Views piece! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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