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Editorial

  • Black and white headshot of Jacques Monod.

    A Halloween Interview with Jacques Monod

    Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Charles Sanders’ yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring Jacques Monod, co-creator of the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model for protein allostery and co-recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read More

    October 22, 2026

  • Bronze statue of Virgil LeQuire lovingly holding a baby goat in his arms. The image is flanked by a background of gold and the Vanderbilt name.

    Three fainting goats and a magic cow: A Thanksgiving conversation

    Long-time collaborators and friends Chuck Sanders and Dr. Al George sat down for a Thanksgiving conversation focused on fainting goats, sacred cows, and disordered muscles in humans. Read More

    November 19, 2025

  • Profile photograph of Maud Menten. Her image is flanked by a gold background.

    A Halloween interview with Maud Menten

    Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders' yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring Maud Menten, co-creator of the Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics equation. Read More

    October 20, 2025

  • Time lapse showing the night sky over a rocky landscape with some trees, shrubs, and water. The stars form concentric circles because of the Earth's rotation during the time lapse.

    Gravity is not our friend: A summer postcard

    Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders reflects on a summertime backpacking trip in the Wind River Range of Western Wyoming. Read More

    August 21, 2025

  • A Halloween Interview with Charles Darwin

    A Halloween Interview with Charles Darwin

    Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders' yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring the one and only Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and the mind behind the theory of evolution. Read More

    October 16, 2024

  • Critical Points and The Unsinkable Lipid Raft Hypothesis

    Critical Points and The Unsinkable Lipid Raft Hypothesis

    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

    September 17, 2024

  • 19th century sepia headshot of Joseph Haywood.

    The Triumph of Common Decency

    By Chuck Sanders, vice dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and professor of biochemistry Joseph Lee Heywood was acquainted with suffering. Having grown up on the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, as a young man he made his way west to Iowa in search of opportunity. However, before things could… Read More

    May 20, 2024

  • Interview with a Vampire: Sesame Street’s Count von Count

    Interview with a Vampire: Sesame Street’s Count von Count

    Vice Dean Chuck Sanders conducted his annual Halloween interview, this time with Sesame Street’s Count von Count, a much loved and highly respected expert on teaching numerical skills to children. Here is a transcript of their conversation. CS: Mr. von Count, let me say what an incredible honor it… Read More

    October 1, 2023