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Eric Bankaitis was recognized by the VICC for his Genes and Development paper as a high impact publication: "Feedback control of growth, differentiation, and morphogenesis of pancreatic endocrine progenitors in an epithelial plexus niche," Bankaitis ED, Bechard ME, Wright CV. Genes Dev. 2015 Oct 15;29(20):2203-16. doi: 10.1101/gad.267914.115. PMID: 26494792 … Read More

Casey Nielsen (MacGurn Lab) received “The Ubiquigent Young Scientist Award” at the FASEB Ubiquitin meeting.  The award was given for the “best student poster” out of 82 total posters across two sessions. This was in addition to the travel award they already gave Casey to cover a portion of her travel costs. Read More

The 14th Annual Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat was held May 4, 2016 at the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center in Nashville. This annual event provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, and lab members to meet and discuss their research in a relaxed environment. The agenda consisted of student presentations and poster sessions. Visit… Read More

Cell and Developmental Biology awards for outstanding research achievements by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are given in recognition of outstanding research achievements by a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. This year's recipients are Nathan McDonald (Gould Lab), Graduate Student of the Year, and Xiaoxi Wang (Page-McCaw Lab), Post Doc of the Year. Read More

Marija Zanic is one of fifteen scientists in the chemical and biological sciences to be named a 2016 Searle Scholar. Each researcher is awarded $300,000 in flexible funding to support his or her work during the next three years. Searle Scholars are selected for their potential to make significant contributions to… Read More

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.”… Read More

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). Read More

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!… Read More

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. Read More