Principal Investigators

Joan Broderick

Joan Broderick, Principal Investigator, received her B.S. in Chemistry from Washington State University and later her MS and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Northwestern University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT and then started her career at Amherst College as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She transitioned to Michigan State University where she was a Professor of Chemistry until 2005 when she moved to Montana State University. She was awarded the title of Women in Science Distinguished Professor in 2014 and currently serves as the Department Head of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept.

Joan Broderick CV

Will Broderick

Will Broderick, Research and Teaching Professor, received his B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University and a Ph.D. at Washington State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar in molecular solid state materials with Brian Hoffman at Northwestern University. He has held faculty positions at the University at Albany- SUNY and Michigan State University before moving to Montana State University in 2005. He and Joan teach and run the Broderick group, while trying to keep up with their 18-year-old twin boys on the ski slopes, trout streams, and hiking trails around Bozeman.

Research Professor

Eric Shepard

Eric, Assistant Research Professor received his B.S in Chemistry from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT before attending graduate school at Montana State University where he obtained his PhD in Biochemistry. He was a Senior Research Scientist until 2016 when he was promoted to Assistant Research Professor. Eric is an avid outdoorsman, and enjoys wildlife photography and exploring the mountains of Montana with his wife, children and dog.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Adrien Pagnier

Adrien is a post doctoral fellow from Grenoble, France. Adrien works on spore photoproduct lyase and the hydrogenase project. In his free time, he enjoys educating the lab on hand hygiene, eating dark chocolate, and taking long expeditions on his bike.

Research Associate / Lab Manager

Oleg Zadvornyy

Oleg is a post doctoral fellow in the Broderick lab. He obtained his Ph.D. in Russia. Oleg works on RSAD1 (Radical SAM domain containing 1)  protein. Oleg enjoys hiking and backpacking in Montana.

Graduate Students

Batu Balci

Batu is a 5th year graduate student who earned his B.S. in Bioengineering with a minor in Biochemistry from Istanbul Technical University and Montana State University. His undergraduate research studies were mainly focused on Mass Spectrometry based metabolomics and proteomics. His current research hopes to provide a better understanding of the mechanism behind [FeFe]-Hydrogenase maturation.

Will Walls

Will earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Oregon State University in 2019. After a gap year, he joined Joan’s lab in 2020 to pursue his PhD. Will now works on elucidating the mechanism of radical SAM epimerases involved in RiPP natural product biosynthesis. In his spare time, he enjoys going to CrossFit, hiking, and cooking.

Alex Marlott 

Chioma Irozuru

Balyn Brotheridge

Abraham Teye

Andrew Gleason

Undergraduates

Jared Green 

Bailey Hoyt

Tyler Delridge