Joan B. Broderick
# Joan B. Broderick

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.

## 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.

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

## Research

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

## Selected publications

* Mulder, David W.; Boyd, Eric S.; Sarma, Ranjana; Lange, Rachel K.; Endrizzi, James A.; Broderick, Joan B.; Peters, John W. (May 2010). "Stepwise [FeFe]-hydrogenase H-cluster assembly revealed in the structure of HydAΔEFG". Nature. 465 (7295): 248–251. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..248M. doi:10.1038/nature08993. PMID 20418861. S2CID 1990191.
* Peters, John W.; Schut, Gerrit J.; Boyd, Eric S.; Mulder, David W.; Shepard, Eric M.; Broderick, Joan B.; King, Paul W.; Adams, Michael W. W. (1 June 2015). "[FeFe]- and [NiFe]-hydrogenase diversity, mechanism, and maturation". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1853 (6): 1350–1369. doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.11.021. ISSN 0167-4889. PMID 25461840.
* Broderick, Joan B.; Duffus, Benjamin R.; Duschene, Kaitlin S.; Shepard, Eric M. (23 April 2014). "Radical S -Adenosylmethionine Enzymes". Chemical Reviews. 114 (8): 4229–4317. doi:10.1021/cr4004709. PMC 4002137. PMID 24476342.
