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Study sets framework for precision surveillance of colorectal cancer
Dec. 18, 2021—A team of Vanderbilt researchers has revealed some of the mechanisms by which polyps develop into colorectal cancer, setting the framework for improved surveillance for the cancer utilizing precision medicine. Their study, published Dec. 14 in Cell, describes findings from a single-cell transcriptomic and imaging atlas of the two most common colorectal polyps found in...
Burkewitz awarded $100,000 to conduct longevity research at the cellular level
Dec. 1, 2021—Kristopher Burkewitz, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, has been awarded $100,000 from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research to research the biological aging process. Burkewitz was one of 10 recipients nationally of this early-career award. Burkewitz’s project will work to understand the sequence of events in...
Uncovering how injury to the pancreas impacts cancer formation
Nov. 5, 2021—Pioneering research from scientists at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies shows that acinar cells in the pancreas form new cell types to mitigate injury but are then susceptible to cancerous mutations. Findings from this research, led by Kathy DelGiorno, assistant professor of cell and developmental...
Spraggins lab awarded a supplement to HuBMAP project
Sep. 24, 2021—The Jeffrey Spraggins Lab has been awarded a supplement to its HuBMAP project (3 U54 EY032442-02S1) to purchase an Illumina MiSeq sequencer to complement the lab’s spatial transcriptomics workflows.
Aubrie Stricker wins travel award
Sep. 24, 2021—Graduate student, Aubrie Stricker (Andrea Page-McCaw Lab) won a travel award to attend the Biennial meeting of the American Society of Matrix Biology.
Gabriella Robertson receives the D-SPAN F99/K00 award
Sep. 24, 2021—Gabriella Robertson recently received the D-SPAN F99/K00 award from NIH/NINDS. Gabriella is a graduate student in the Vivian Gama lab.
Ihrie earns Ivy Foundation award
Sep. 1, 2021—The Ivy Foundation’s Emerging Leader Grant Award 2021 was granted to Rebecca Ihrie (CDB). The award supports early-to-mid-career investigators conducting high-impact, high-reward translational research on glioblastoma.
Exciting news from the Miller Lab
Aug. 26, 2021—Research Assistant Professor Seth Taylor and Professor David Miller, both in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, have established a gene expression atlas for the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans, along with biologists from Colombia University and Yale University. David Miller Seth Taylor Their data complement the known wiring diagram of...
Dean’s award recipients announced
Aug. 25, 2021—The Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement for Advanced Students is granted to graduate students who distinguish themselves during their graduate careers. The winners from CDB for 2021 are as follows: Cody Heiser, CPB, Ken Lau la Gabriella Robertson, CDB, Vivian Gama lab Mary Chalkley, CDB, Rebecca Ihrie and Kevin Ess labs
ASPIRE to Innovate welcomes first postdoc
Aug. 24, 2021—The new ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, designed to bring biomedical Ph.D. scientists to the entrepreneurial and technology transfer realm, has welcomed its first postdoctoral fellow: Karrie Dudek, a graduate of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.