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Cherie’ Scurrah wins NSF Honorable Mention
Apr. 6, 2016—
Ken Lau receives the Overall High Impact Award
Apr. 6, 2016—Ken Lau receives the Overall High Impact Award for 2016 from Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences for his paper “Cytometry-based single-cell analysis of intact epithelial signaling reveals MAPK activation divergent from TNF-a-induced apoptosis in vivo.”
CDB Rises to the #1 Spot in Cell Biology Funding!
Mar. 30, 2016—The Vanderbilt Department of Cell & Developmental Biology currently occupies the #1 rank among US medical schools in "Anatomy/Cell Biology" NIH funding, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. (http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/NIH_Awards.htm).
April Weissmiller Awarded AACR Basic Science Cancer Research Fellowship
Mar. 23, 2016—April Weissmiller, Post Doc in the Tansey Lab, was awarded a one year AACR Basic Science Cancer Research Fellowship “ Probing a novel mechanism of MYC recruitment to chromatin." She will receive the award at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The grant begins 7/1/2016. Congratulations, April!
A clue to cell cleavage
Mar. 14, 2016—In a study published in the March issue of Current Biology, Puck Ohi, Ph.D. and graduate student Jennifer Landino demonstrate that the cleavage furrow communicates with the midzone.
MariaSanta Mangione Awarded Grant
Mar. 14, 2016—MariaSanta Mangione (Gould Lab) was recently awarded an NIH/NIGMS grant for "Investigating the Regulation and Structural Features of the conserved Membrane-Binding F-BAR Protein Cdc15." Her current research is centered on the F-BAR protein Cdc15, and the formation of the cytokinetic ring.
Study explores less invasive way to monitor colorectal cancer
Feb. 18, 2016—Research assistant professor, Jeff Franklin, and other investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, have published research regarding an important feature of colorectal cancer (CRC) that could eventually lead to the development of non-invasive means of monitoring cancer progression. The team’s research, published in eLIFE, indicates that colorectal cancer cells release tiny RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs) so as to...
Meredith Weck Awarded NIH/NIDDK Grant
Feb. 15, 2016—Meredith Weck, a graduate student in Matt Tyska's Lab, was recently award an NIH/NIDDK grant for "Investigating the Role of Myosin 7b in Intra-Microvillar Transport."
Grant Awarded to Ken Lau
Feb. 15, 2016—Associate Professor and PI, Ken Lau, recently landed an NIH/NIDDK grant for research in "Spatio-temporal Dissection of Epithelial Cell Hierarchies in Gut Inflammation."
Building intestinal brush borders
Feb. 11, 2016—Matthew Tyska, Ph.D., and colleagues previously discovered that the brush border’s densely packed microvilli – finger-like membrane protrusions – are connected to each other via cadherin adhesion molecules. Now, the investigators have demonstrated a critical role for a protein called ANKS4B in stabilizing the cadherin-based adhesions between microvilli to build a normal brush border.