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, 12:00 noon in 214 Light Hall, Dr. Linda Columbus, University of Virginia, “Bacterial membrane protein adhesion and virulence”
February 13, 2:00 PM in 214 Light Hall, Dr. Roy Parker, University of Colorado, “RNP granules in health and disease”
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, “A chemical biology toolbox for probing A-to-I RNA editing”
April 3, Dr. Rachel Green, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
April 17, Dr. Emma Farley, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation Defense
February 25: Oyku Sensoy (Merrick lab) 12:00 noon in PRB 206
March 3: Kate (Clowes) Moster (Sanders lab) 2:00 PM in 1220 MRBIII
March 6: Sarah Zelle (Mchaourab & Schey labs) 9:00 AM in PRB 206
March 12: Jillian Armenia (Osheroff lab) 3:00 PM in 214 Light Hall
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
Feb 27, BPSA Colloquium, Houde Li and Miriam Bergman 214 LH, 12 noon
March 27, BPSA Colloquium, Kelly O’Rourke and Josh Gann, 214 LH 12 noon
April 10, BPSA Colloquium, Sharon Roth and Jacob Zuckerman 214 LH, 12 noon
April 24, BPSA Colloquium, Mathew Frischman and Lingrui Lai 214 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.
