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3 QUESTIONS ON… How Tumor Cells Grow With Maria Fomicheva of Vanderbilt University
Apr. 23, 2021—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 for certain traits. Now researchers have...
Sara Ramirez awarded F31 predoctoral fellowship
Apr. 20, 2021—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 non-regenerative mouse model and obtain a molecular read...
Gabriella Robertson and Gillian Fitz to receive the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) award
Apr. 17, 2021—The Graduate School has approved the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology’s nomination for Gabriella Robertson and Gillian Fitz to receive the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) award, an annual $5,000 service-free stipend which pays monthly from August 2021 through July 2023.
Chloe Snider recognized with Alan Hall Award
Apr. 16, 2021—Recent Ph.D. graduate Chloe Snider (CDB, Kathy Gould lab) was recognized by the Journal of Cell Biology with the Alan Hall Award, granted to outstanding graduate students and first-year postdocs whose work was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
Zanic receives 2020 Early Career Award
Apr. 16, 2021—Marija Zanic received the 2020 Early Career Award from the Motility & Cytoskeleton subgroup. She accepted the award and presented a talk at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, which took place in February.
Ramirez receives NIH award
Apr. 16, 2021—Sara Ramirez, graduate student in CDB, Sabine Fuhrmann lab received an award from the NIH.
Wojciechowski awarded NCI grant
Apr. 16, 2021—Andrea Wojciechowski, graduate student in CDB, Bill Tansey lab, has recently been awarded a received grants from the National Cancer Institute.
Committee Recap: Spring 2021
Apr. 10, 2021—Following the graduate students’ letter to department leadership, the CDB Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee formed in June 2020. Since that time, we have written a diversity statement emphasizing the values of our department and our shared commitment to taking action to promote belonging and success for scientists from all backgrounds and identities. You can...
New CRISPR screening technique developed at Vanderbilt leads to discovery of pathway that may be linked to cancer initiation
Mar. 13, 2021—by Marissa Shapiro Mar. 10, 2021, 9:00 AM A new genome-wide CRISPR screening technique conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University is offering new insights about how tumors in 80 to 90 percent of all cancers grow. Maria Fomicheva Ian Macara (Vanderbilt University) This novel approach developed by Maria Fomicheva, a graduate student in the lab...
Page-McCaw spearheads improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process
Mar. 2, 2021—Andrea Page-McCaw, DGS for CDB, spearheaded improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process in which prospective students choose an adviser during the application process. “A direct-admit student is particularly dependent on their adviser because of their complete reliance on the adviser’s funding, along with the student’s reduced professional network and decreased potential to change labs,” McCaw...