Mary Jo Ondrechen
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Principal Investigator
Computational Biology Research Group
Affiliated Faculty
Undergraduate Institution
Reed College, Portland, OR
Contact
122 Hurtig Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
My Dad taught me about the stars and my Mom taught me about nature. I was hooked early on.
What are your future career goals?
Better understanding of enzyme function, figuring out correct annotations for structural genomics proteins, and designing new inhibitors.
Conference Presentations:
3DSIG and Automated Function Prediction sessions, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, International Society for Computational Biology
Vienna, Austria | July, 2011
Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
New Haven, CT | January, 2012
Awards
I was honored to receive the Service Award from the Graduate Student Association in 2011.
Research Interests
- Computational biology
- Study of enzyme function
- Functional genomics
- Drug discovery
Personal Interests
- Science
- Fitness
- Medicinal and culinary herbs
- Music (rock, classical, & folk)