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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

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.                … Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More