Danielle Grotjahn is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps Research. An overarching goal of her research program is to uncover the mechanisms by which mitochondria remodel their shape, architecture, and structural composition amidst the complexities of health and disease. Her lab interfaces at the crossroads of cellular and structural biology, combining multiple imaging modalities such as correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) and cellular cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to study mitochondria structure and function. For her Ph.D. studies, she joined Professor Gabe Lander’s lab at Scripps Research, where she used cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging to solve the first three-dimensional structure of the microtubule-bound dynein motor complex. Danielle completed a short postdoctoral position in Dr. Grant Jensen’s lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) before starting her independent career in 2019 as a Scripps Fellow. In 2021, Danielle was promoted to Assistant Professor. Danielle has been awarded consecutive Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation awards from the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation in 2021 and 2023, the Baxter Young Investigator in 2022, and named a Pew Scholar in 2023.