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Viperin: a radical response to viral infection

• Kaitlin S. Duschene

  Kaitlin S. Duschene was born in 1978. She received her BS and MS degrees in biochemistry from Furman University where she studied the effects of potential anticancer drugs synthesized in the lab of Dr. Moses Lee in both in vitro and in vivo models. Prior to coming to Montana State University she studied the activity of HIF1a in prostate cancer in the lab of Dr. Jonathan Simons, president of Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University. She is currently working under Dr. Joan Broderick where her research interests are iron-sulfur clusters involved in mammalian immune response mechanisms.

  and Joan B. Broderick

  Joan B. Broderick was born in 1965. She received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Washington State University and a PhD from Northwestern University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. She was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at MIT before joining the faculty at Amherst College as Assistant Professor in 1993. She moved to Michigan State University in 1998 and to Montana State University in 2005, where she is currently Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Her research interests are in mechanistic bioinorganic chemistry, with a particular focus on enzymes utilizing iron-sulfur clusters to catalyze radical reactions.