Author: Drennan Lab

Congratulations to Lindsey Backman on receiving a Gilliam Fellowship, Steve Cohen on being selected for the MIT Biotechnology Training Program, and Manuel Ortega on receiving a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Award!

Congratulations to Elizabeth Wittenborn on receiving her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry

Congratulations to Jessica Gable on receiving the Department of Chemistry Research Award for outstanding achievement in chemistry research! Jessica is a graduating senior and the Drennan Lab will miss her greatly, but we look forward to hearing about her amazing accomplishments in graduate school!  Read more…

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb on the publication of her Nature paper! Read the paper at Nature!

Cathy’s 5.111 course, an MIT staple, has been highlighted in MIT’s publication Spectrum! The article discusses her innovations and the OpenCourseWare class.

Congratulations to Martin McLaughlin for being featured in MIT News! His paper, titled “Crystallographic snapshots of sulfur insertion by lipoyl synthase” was published in PNAS!

Congratulations to Lindsey Backman on receiving a 2016 NSF graduate research fellowship!

Congratulations to Dr. Christina Zimanyi for her newly published paper in eLife! The paper, titled Molecular basis for allosteric specificity regulation in class Ia ribonucleotide reductase from Escherichia coli, has gotten a lot of press over the past few weeks from MIT News, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, and Science 2.0!

Congratulations to Dr. Marcus Gibson for being featured on MIT News! The article highlights his paper One-carbon chemistry of oxalate oxidoreductase captured by X-ray crystallography, published in PNAS, early edition on December 28th, 2015. photo credit: MIT

The Drennan Lab welcomes Lindsey Beckman and Steve Cohen to the group!

Congratulations to Jessica Gable for being selected as MIT Chemistry’s nominee for the Goldwater Scholarship!

Congrats to Marco for Having the JBC Paper of the Week! Paper here.

Congratulations Dr. Michael Funk for being featured on MIT News!

Congratulations to Marco Jost on his Nature paper Nature doi:10.1038/nature14950

Congratulations to Michael Funk on his JBC paper! doi:10.1074/jbc.M115.670737

The Drennan lab welcomes summer students Alessio Caruso, Lindsey Backman, and Sheena Vasquez!

The Drennan lab welcomes Rohan Jonnalagadda!

Congrats to Yang-Ting Chen for receiving a travel grant to ICBIC in Beijing.

Congrats to Drennan lab graduates Michael Funk, Marcus Gibson, Marco Jost, and Martin McLaughlin!

Congrats to Kenny Kang, Allena Goren and David Born on completing their Ph.D. candidacy exams.

Congrats to Martin McLaughlin for receiving the 2015 Department of Chemistry Alpha Chi Sigma Award, a 2015 Strem Prize, and for graduating Phi Beta Kappa!

Congrats to Martin McLaughlin and former Drennan lab undergraduate Ben Bell on being selected to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Martin will be graduating from MIT with a BS in Chemistry in May 2015. Ben graduated from MIT in May 2014 and is currently working toward his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Stanford.

Congratulations to former graduate student Peter Goldman on getting the cover of JBC!

Congratulations to Marco Jost for his paper titled “Visualization of a Radical B12 Enzyme with its G-protein Chaperone” being published by PNAS. The structures of the complex between this G-protein metallochaperone and one of its target proteins, a radical B12 enzyme, reveal the molecular architecture and the pathways that both sense and report on the cofactor loading state.… Continue reading Congrats to Marco Jost on his paper in PNAS!

Congrats to Ben Bell (Course 7, Class of 2014) for receiving the 2014 Ned Holt Prize, “For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT community”, and for being accepted to graduate school at Stanford University.

Congrats to Aileen Johnson (Course 5 – Class of 2014) for her acceptance to medical school.

Congrats to Martin McLaughlin (Course 5, Class of 2015) on receiving a 2014 Randolph G. Wei UROP Award for outstanding undergraduate research.

Congrats to Dr. Jeremy Setser, who defended his PhD thesis on May 2.

Congrats to Martin McLaughlin, recipient of the 2014 Department of Chemistry Junior Analytical Chemist Award!

Congrats to Dan Dowling on accepting a position at UMass Boston!

Congrats to former graduate student Christina Zimanyi on receiving a Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship!

Lab undergraduate alumni Samuel Thompson and Anne Ye received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Congratulations!

Congrats to Dan Dowling for getting the February cover of Nature Chemical Biology!

The Drennan lab welcomes our new first year students Kenny Kang, Allena Goren, and Yang-Ting Chen!

Congratulations to Peter Goldman for his paper “X-ray analysis of butirosin biosynthetic enzyme BtrN redefines structural motifs for AdoMet radical chemistry” in PNAS.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Wittenborn for being selected for the NIH Biotechnology Training Program at MIT.

Congratulations to Drs. Christina Zimanyi and Peter Goldman for receiving their PhDs and Samuel Thompson for receiving his BS.

Congratulations to Peter Goldman for his paper “X-ray structure of an AdoMet radical activase reveals an anaerobic solution for formylglycine posttranslational modification” in PNAS.

Peter Goldman and Christina Zimanyi successfully defended their PhD theses this week and will receive their diplomas at this year’s Commencement ceremonies on June 6th and 7th.

Congratulations to Drennan lab 4th year graduate student Marco Jost on receiving a 2013 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Award.

Congratulations to Drennan lab 4th year graduate student Marco Jost on being selected to attend the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Congratulations to 1st year graduate student Tsehai Grell on receiving an NSF fellowship.

Congratulations to Mishtu Dey and the HppE team for their paper “Mechanistic studies of an unprecedented enzyme-catalysed 1,2-phosphono-migration reaction“. The article was also highlighted in “Biochemistry: Positive and radical,” by Spencer C. Peck and Wilfred A. van der Donk.

Congratulations to Peter Goldman and Kaity Ryan for having their Chem Biol paper “An Unusual Role for a Mobile Flavin in StaC-like Indolocarbazole Biosynthetic Enzymes” highlighted in preview article ” “Babysitting Flavin for Biosynthesis,” by Sheryl Tsai.

Christina Zimanyi selected to give MIT Biochemistry Seminar September 24, 2012

Congratulations to Marcus Gibson for his selection as a member of the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability for the academic year 2012-13

Congratulations to Marco Jost for his selection as an MIT Poitras Fellow (2012-2013)

Congratulations to Nozomi Ando and Yan Kung for recent publication in JACS: “Transient B12-dependent methyltransferase complexes revealed by small-angle X-ray scattering.

Cathy Drennan to give Distinguished Scholar Seminar at 2012 SPIRE Postdoc Fellowship Program Workshop, UNC Chapel Hill on November 16, 2012 Congratulations to Nozomi Ando and Yan Kung for recent publication in JACS: “Transient B12-dependent methyltransferase complexes revealed by small-angle X-ray scattering. “Congratulations to Marco Jost for his selection as an MIT Poitras Fellow (2012-2013)