Metals play many important roles in biological systems, from essential functional or structural cofactors in proteins, to environmental toxins. The Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference is one of the longest-running GRCs (starting in 1962). It brings together researchers that span expertise from physical methods and synthetic chemistry through biology and biomedicine. The strength of this multidisciplinary group is reflected in the number of other GRCs that have "spun off" from Metals in Biology. Inorganic biochemistry continues to be an active and vibrant area, resulting in a perennial oversubscription to this GRC. To provide graduate students in this area with the possibility to participate, our community started the first Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar (in Bioinorganic Chemistry), which has overlapped and met after the Metals in Biology GRC for over 10 years.