Stephen Doster

Aug. 10, 2021, 9:01 AM   by Bill Snyder Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found that people recovering from COVID-19 and those vaccinated against the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, produce identical clones, or groups, of antibody-producing white blood cells. Their discovery, reported this week in the journal Cell… Read More

THE IDEA Research Assistant Professor Seth Taylor and Professor David Miller, both in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, have established a gene expression atlas for the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans, along with… Read More

by Skylar Cuevas THE IDEA With modern-day cancer therapeutics presenting adverse side effects to heart health, scientists are studying methods to attack cancer cells without the risk of damaging the heart. Researchers Steven Townsend, associate professor of chemistry, and Neil Osheroff, John… Read More

THE IDEA A new study from Vanderbilt University researchers has established a novel way to understand how the body discovers and responds to wounds. The research was led by graduate student James O’Connor and Professor Andrea Page-McCaw in the Department of Cell… Read More

THE IDEA Building on recent research confirming how ketamine induces rapid antidepressant action, Professor of Pharmacology Lisa Monteggia and her collaborators show how the molecular mechanism of the gene MeCP2 and associated synaptic adaptability are critical to the long-term antidepressant effects of ketamine. Lisa Monteggia… Read More

A new, $1.5 million Department of Energy grant brings together experts from three institutions to parse the metabolism of a blue-green algae that holds great promise for biofuel production. The team, led by Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jamey Young, will take a systems biology approach to identify how… Read More

Jul. 22, 2021, 9:51 AM   by Leigh MacMillan Neil Osheroff, PhD, professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, has been elected to a leadership position for a council of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Osheroff, who holds the John G. Coniglio… Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day,… Read More

Jul. 22, 2021, 10:20 AM Madison Adolph, PhD, left, David Cortez, PhD, and Archana Krishnamoorthy are studying fundamental processes involved in DNA replication. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Leigh MacMillan One protein. One mechanism of action. Two biologically opposite effects. “It’s conceptually unexpected and interesting for a protein to switch… Read More

By: Wendy Bindeman David Cortez, Richard N. Armstrong, Ph.D. Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry and professor of biochemistry, has been appointed chair of the Department of Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2021. Cortez first joined the Department of Biochemistry in 2002 as an assistant professor, and became a professor of biochemistry… Read More