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Dean John Kuriyan (Photo by John Russell) Dear Alums and Friends, In the previous issue of Vestigo, we paused to look back at 150 years of innovative research. In this issue, we look ahead to new and amazing research breakthroughs coming out of our laboratories and their potential impact in… Read More

Edna St. Vincent Millay A mini-anthology compiled by Chuck Sanders, Vice Dean, School of Medicine Basic Sciences Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892, and she and her two sisters were raised in near poverty by their mother in Maine. Having placed in a national poetry competition at 20,… Read More

Charles Darwin, serenely composed in anticipation of the Voyage of the Beagle. The intrepid CEO of The Protein Society, Raluca Cadar, again used her special Carpathian “connections” to set up our Annual TPS Halloween interview, this year with none other than Charles Darwin.  We listen in on his conversation with… Read More

Coffey and Lau plan to uncover the mechanistic underpinnings of supermeres in the tumor microenvironment, look for other immune exclusion biomarkers, and evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy when immune exclusion proteins are targeted. Read More

Compiled by Chuck Sanders to accompany Protein Society newsletter article (Sept. 2024 issue): Critical Points and The Unsinkable Lipid Raft Hypothesis Reverse Chronological Order The Membrane Phase Transition Gives Rise to Responsive Plasma Membrane Structure and Function. Shelby SA, Veatch SL.  Cold Spring… Read More

By Chuck Sanders When I was 13, my brother Scott (12) and I joined our neighbors Matha (12) and Jay (10) on a trip to their family cottage on the bank of the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania. I had fantasized about this trip for months; I… Read More

Quincy Hall describes the experience of arriving on the West Coast as an out-of-state junior college student: “…that’s where the grit comes from. When you have no food. You’ve got to get your own food. No cafeteria. No study hall. None of that. You find out how to be a dog by yourself.” Read More

Apex Lecture: Venki Ramakrishan, “Why We Die” Agenda 3:00  Introduction, John Kuriyan, Dean, Basic Sciences, School of Medicine… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences is soliciting 2024 applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen fund supports high-risk, ground-breaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. Read More

  Walter Chazin, Ph.D., received a B.Sc. in chemistry from McGill University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kurt Wüthrich at the E.T.H. in Switzerland (2002 Nobel laureate in Chemistry). After 13… Read More