Stephen Doster

Alternative text, or alt text, are words that describe an image or other graphic. Alt text helps people with low vision, and others who use assistive technology such as screen readers, understand what’s happening in the image. Taking this extra step improves your communication by making your information more accessible,… Read More

Keyada Frye, Ph.D. Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Irina Kaverina, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: The role of the motor kinesin, KIF1C, in vascular smooth muscle cell podosome regulation Megan Rasmussen, Ph.D Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Vivian Gama, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: Understanding the mechanisms by which the BCL-2 family… Read More

Gabriella Robertson (Gama lab) has been awarded the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship award provides financial support for a student selected as the most outstanding candidate from among those selected to receive Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) graduate scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick… Read More

Alissa Guarnaccia is jumping into a highly sought-after research career to help find treatments for cancer at the cellular level. But lately she’s taking time to write lots of thank-you letters, even to some of her old high school teachers. “Without the people who believed in me and without their… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Jun. 3, 2021, 9:00 AM How do academics with diverse areas of expertise view the origins of life? What kind of conversation would take place among a cell biologist, a theologian, an astronomer/physicist and a philosopher if they all sat around… Read More

Apr. 29, 2021, 9:53 AM by Leigh MacMillan Aging is a primary risk factor for many chronic diseases. Strategies to slow the aging process and improve health have focused on limiting nutrients, but fasting is difficult.  Jason MacGurn, PhD, and colleagues including Robert Dickson, PhD, at the University of… Read More

The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University will host its third Cell Dynamics Symposium on May 20th & May 21st, 2021. This event will be held virtually over Zoom. Invited speakers include Marc Kirschner, Ph.D., John Franklin Enders University Professor; Chair Department of Systems Biology, Harvard… Read More

Kathy Gould, Louise McGavock Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and senior associate dean for biomedical research, education and career development will assume leadership of the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training. Kathy has worked alongside Roger Chalkley, who is retiring this summer, for over 10 years and is well… Read More

Maria Fomicheva (Kaverina lab) is featured in the April 20, 2021 issue of Oncology Times. CRISPR (which stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) is a genome screening tool that allows researchers to edit or delete individual genes—as well as identify the specific genes in the body responsible… Read More

Sara Ramirez (graduate student, Fuhrmann lab) was awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Eye Institute at the beginning of April. Her thesis project delves into the role of candidate regulatory pathways in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) regeneration and repair. I aim to stimulate regeneration in a… Read More