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Joan B. Broderick

Joan Blanchette Broderick
Alma materNorthwestern University
Scientific career
InstitutionsMontana State University
ThesisSpectroscopic and mechanistic studies of chlorocatechol dioxygenase, a non-heme iron dioxygenase with broad substrate tolerance (1992)

Joan Blanchette Broderick is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University known for her work on bioinorganic chemistry, especially the chemistry of iron-sulfur interactions. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[1]

Education and career

Broderick has an undergraduate degree from Washington State University, and an M.S. and a PhD from Northwestern University. Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then an assistant professor at Amherst College. She held a faculty position at Michigan State University before moving to Montana in 2005.[2]

She has been recognized as a Saltman Lecturer and Women in Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University.[3] In 2019, Broderick received the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.[4]

Research

She has contributed to bioinorganic chemistry often with a focus on iron-sulfur proteins, including the radical SAM enzymes.[5] Her research also includes investigations into hydrogenase where she defines the assembly of the enzymes into functional units.[6][7]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "2022 NAS Election".
  2. ^ "People". Broderick Research Group. 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  3. ^ "Joan Broderick - Chemistry and Biochemistry - Montana State University". www.chemistry.montana.edu.
  4. ^ "2019 ACS National Award winners". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
  5. ^ Broderick, J. B.; Duffus, B. R.; Duschene, K. S.; Shepard, E. M., "Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes", Chemical Reviews 2014, volume 114, 4229-4317. 10.1021/cr4004709
  6. ^ Shepard, Eric M.; McGlynn, Shawn E.; Bueling, Alexandra L.; Grady-Smith, Celestine S.; George, Simon J.; Winslow, Mark A.; Cramer, Stephen P.; Peters, John W.; Broderick, Joan B. (2010-06-08). "Synthesis of the 2Fe subcluster of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase H cluster on the HydF scaffold". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (23): 10448–10453. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10710448S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001937107. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2890834. PMID 20498089.
  7. ^ Peters, John W.; Broderick, Joan B. (2012-07-07). "Emerging Paradigms for Complex Iron-Sulfur Cofactor Assembly and Insertion". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 81 (1): 429–450. doi:10.1146/annurev-biochem-052610-094911. ISSN 0066-4154. PMID 22482905.