Department of Biochemistry

Events

FRONTIERS IN BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS
12:00 – 1:00 PM

2022

August 5: Alexandria Oviatt (Osheroff lab), Madison Adolph (Cortez lab), Pratibha Ghodke (Guengerich lab), Vanderbilt University

September 2: open

September 16: Susan Lovett, Brandeis University

October 7: tentatively Trudy Oliver, Duke University

October 21: Lawrence J. Marnett, Vanderbilt University “The Richard Armstrong Mentoring Lecture”

November 4: Wade Van Horn, Arizona State University

November 18: Nima Mosammaparast, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

December 2: Ori Avinoam, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2023

January 26: Christine A. Curcio, University of Alabama at Birmingham

January 20: Cigall Kadoch, Harvard “The Richard Armstrong Lecture”

March 9 THURSDAY: Yifan Cheng, UCSF “The Flexner Discovery Lecture”

April 7: Johannes Walter, Harvard

Dissertation Defense

July 20: Romell Gletten (Schey lab), “Aquaporin-5 expression, trafficking, and interacting partners in the bovine lens,”1:00 PM, 1220 MRB III

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.

March 9, 2023: Yifan Cheng, UCSF, The Flexner Discovery Lecture, live stream (Ren hosts)

STUDENT COLLOQUIUM

Summer/Fall 2022 12:00 PM CT

8/12/2022: In-Person (LH 208) & Zoom-Colloquium: Introductory Seminar

8/26/2022: In-Person (LH 214) & Zoom-Colloquium: Stacey Satchell

Biochemistry News!

Three Vanderbilt biomedical researchers named 2022 Pew Scholars
Mariana Byndloss, assistant professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, and William Wan, assistant professor of biochemistry, have been named 2022 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust have selected Alexander Bick, assistant professor of genetic medicine, to join the 2022 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research.
Vanderbilt ranks 12th in annual survey of NIH funding; 2021 awards topped $445M
Vanderbilt University again ranked among the nation’s top research institutions receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to the latest data compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Research Snapshot: Biochemical technique for finding small molecules discovered by Vanderbilt and University of Virginia researchers
A team including the Sanders lab developed a new methodology for finding small molecules associated with lipid rafts, an essential part of cell structure and regulation.
Seven Vanderbilt faculty elected as AAAS fellows in 2021
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver joins six others at Vanderbilt as 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Lopez lab develops computational tools to further understanding of complex biological systems
By Aaron Conley Systems biology and the Lopez lab The history of hermeneutics started with Aristotle—parts comprise the whole. To understand the whole, we need to understand the parts. And to understand the parts, we need to understand them in the context of the whole. Carlos F. Lopez, associate professor of biochemistry, described this concept […]
Watch: ‘The Science of Flavor’ conversation explores how flavor science impacts the restaurant industry
Join taste experts, scientists and a Nashville chef to learn about the science behind flavor in a virtual event on Monday, Jan. 31, at noon CT.
Watch: Lab-to-Table Conversations: “The Science of Beer” featuring biochemistry faculty and beer science alumni
Vanderbilt alumni and the founders of Jackalope Brewing Co. and Yazoo Brewing Co. will join Vanderbilt researchers for a Dec. 16 virtual discussion about beer and fermentation science.
Professor makes Vanderbilt-discovered cancer targeting molecule freely available to researchers through collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim
Stephen Fesik’s discovery of a cancer-targeting molecule has been made freely accessible through opnMe for global researchers to advance research into cancer therapeutics.
Global Vanderbilt: Carlos Lopez: “It’s beyond you’re welcome here, this is the place where you belong.”
Carlos Lopez, associate professor of biochemistry and biomedical informatics, describes how international faculty belong at Vanderbilt.
Cohen Innovation Fund Awards Announced Supporting Two High-Risk, High-Reward Projects
Houra Merrikh, professor of biochemistry, and Teru Nakagawa, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, have both been selected to receive one-year research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The awards will support groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting research.