Crystallography of Protein Dynamics

Nozomi Ando, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the Cornell University. Prof. Ando was born in Denver, CO and grew up in the suburbs of Boston, MA. She received her BS from MIT where she was a physics major and music performance minor. She was drawn to the spaceship-like feel of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and went to Cornell University for her PhD in physics. As a graduate student in Sol Gruner’s lab, she made her own diamond cells for high-pressure X-ray scattering studies. She then went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow in Cathy Drennan’s lab at MIT, where she developed a fascination with metalloenzymes. In 2014, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and started a research program that combines X-ray physics and structural enzymology. In 2018, the Ando lab moved to Cornell University when she joined the faculty in Chemistry & Chemical Biology.