Events
FRONTIERS IN BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS
12:00 – 1:00 PM in Light Hall
2025
August 22, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Patrick Sung, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, “Homologous Recombination Licensing Role of the BRCA1-BARD1 Tumor Suppressor Complex”
September 19, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Jennifer Below, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, “Understanding Genetic Regulation and Disease Association Within and Across Populations”
October 3, 206 Preston Research Building, Dr. Wilma Friedman, Rutgers University, “Mechanisms of axonal degeneration following traumatic brain injury”
CANCELED October 17, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Eros Lazzerini Denchi, National Institutes of Health, “Telomere Dynamics in Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cancer Cells“
October 31, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Blanton Tolbert, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, “Molecular Heterogeneity Underlies RNA Function”
November 14, 214 Light Hall,The Richard Armstrong Lecture: Dr. Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, “Discovering Chimallivirus biology with in-cell cryo-EM”
December 5, 2:30 PM in 1220 MRBIII, Discovery Science Emerging Scholars Lecture: Dr. Lauren Hagler, Texas A&M University, “Decoding RNA Structure, Dynamics, and Recognition Through Chemical Probing”
December 15, 2:00 PM in 1220 MRBIII, APEX Lecture: Dr. Andre Nussenzweig, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research Chief, Laboratory of Genome Integrity, “Genome stability in mitotic and post-mitotic cells”
2026
February 6, Dr. Linda Columbus, University of Virginia
February 13, Dr. Roy Parker, University of Colorado
March 6, Dr. Eros Lazzerini Denchi, National Institutes of Health, “Telomere Dynamics in Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cancer Cells”
March 20, The Richard Armstrong Lecture: Dr. Jennifer Heemstra, Washington University, St. Louis
April 3, Dr. Rachel Green, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
April 17, Dr. Emma Farley, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation Defense
December 10: Anna Gilbert (Johnson) (Hiebert lab) 10:30 AM in 208 Light Hall, “Elucidating mechanisms of transcriptional repression by Mtg family tumor suppressors”
BIOCHEMISTRY DISCOVERY/FLEXNER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:00 PM, 208 Light Hall
The next scheduled Biochemistry Flexner Discovery Lecture is TBD. Please check back here for updates.
In recent years, the Department of Biochemistry has hosted such illustrious speakers as: Jennifer Doudna, Peter Agre, Karl Deisseroth, Joan Steitz, NIDA Director Nora Volkow, Nancy Andrews, and several Nobel Prize winners (Sydney Brenner, Tom Cech, Andrew Fire, Bengt Samuelsson, Kurt Wuthrich, Sir Paul Nurse, and in 2017 Eric Kandel). View a full listing of all Vanderbilt Flexner Discovery Lectures, past and present. Lectures are recorded and may be viewed online.
STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
Sept 12, State of the Department address (Drs. Cortez & Kojetin) 214 LH, 12 noon
Sept 26, BPSA Colloquium, Louis Otero (Folkmann lab) 214 LH, 12 noon
Oct 10, BPSA Colloquium, Samika Joshi (Osheroff lab) 214 LH, 12 noon
Oct 24, BPSA Colloquium, Jill Armenia (Osheroff lab) 208 LH, 12 noon
Nov 7, BPSA Colloquium, Sander Haigh (Cortez lab) & Stedman Stephens (Folkmann lab) 214 LH, 12 noon
Nov 21, BPSA Colloquium, Tara Hickman (Peck lab) 202 LH, 12 noon
Dec 12, BPSA Colloquium, Gabriela Gonzalez (Cortez lab) 208 LH, 12 noon
STUDENT RETREAT 2024 PHOTOS
Thank you to all who attended our 2024 Biochemistry Department Retreat at the VU Student Life Center! We appreciate the planning contributions of Dr. Yi Ren and the BPSA representatives: Ali Angelos, Xiaoyu Lily Yu, Ronan Bracken, Jenny Tran, Gabriela Gonzalez Vasquez, Mithun Nag Karadi Giridhar, Vincent Yao, Sara Conwell, Tara Hickman, and Jordan Stacy.
