Professor and Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and HHMI
MIT and HHMI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cathy L. Drennan is a professor of biology and chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a professor and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received an AB in chemistry from Vassar College, and after teaching high school science and drama for three years, she returned to graduate school. Drennan received a PhD in biological chemistry from the University of Michigan, working in the laboratory of the late Professor Martha L. Ludwig. She was also a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Douglas C. Rees at the California Institute of Technology. In 1999, Drennan joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has risen through the ranks to full professor. Her research interests lie at the interface of chemistry and biology, combining X-ray crystallography with cryo-electron microscopy and other biophysical methods in order to “visualize” molecular processes by obtaining snapshots of metalloproteins in action.
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Capturing Snapshots of Ribonucleotide Reductase Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM US CST