Kelly Chacón, PhD - Interview with a Super Cool Scientist!
Channel: YouTooBio
Date: 2021-01-19

Dr. Kelly Chacón dropped out of high school when she was 15...  now she is a professor of Chemistry at Reed College. How did she do it? In this interview, YouTooBio's Jayme Dyer chats with Dr. Chacón to learn about her unconventional path to becoming a scientist and professor, and to hear about the super cool research she's doing to understand how metal-binding proteins work (and how studying them might solve problems from saving babies born with birth defects to prevent severe illness from the "bad" E. coli).

Dr. Chacón's Faculty Profile at Reed College: https://www.reed.edu/faculty-profiles/profiles/chacon-kelly.html
Dr. Chacón's Lab website: https://www.reed.edu/chemistry/chacon/index.html
Dr. Chacón on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kelly_N_Chacon

An article about thriving as an "Other" in Academia, written by Dr. Chacón in 2020: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/opinions/010820/thriving-as-a-messy-other-in-academia

All photographs courtesy of Kelly Chacón, except the Periodic Table by Sandbh CC BY-SA 4.0.

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