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Becky Adams has been awarded an EMBO Short Term Fellowship to visit Edinburgh for a month. She will work in Dr. David Tollervey's lab analyzing the RNA targets of the DEAD-box RNA-dependeing ATPase Dbp5, which functions during mRNA export through the nuclear pore complex. Read More

Irina Kaverina, Ph.D., Xiadong Zhu, Ph.D., and colleagues began using pancreatic beta cells as a model to study microtubule function — to explore how microtubules “traffic” cargo such as insulin granules from the cell interior to the periphery. Read More

David Miller was recently appointed to the faculty committee of the University Courses initiative. This new initiative, a key component of Vanderbilt’s Academic Strategic Plan, will promote new and creative trans-institutional learning at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. Read More

Kenyi Saito-Diaz, a graduate student in Dr. Ethan Lee's lab, is also the co-director of the Research Experience for Peruvian Undergraduates (REPU), a program that provides Peruvian undergraduates with opportunities to become scientists. REPU helps the brightest Peruvian students get internships in U.S. laboratories for three to six months. The experience makes them better candidates… Read More

David Miller was recentlyt named "Outstanding Mentor of the Year 2015" by the Vanderbilt Neuroscience Program!… Read More

On October 8 Ian Macara gave a presentation on research for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators, donors, patients and patient advocates. The VICC hosted this day-long event, which included members of the Susan G. Koman breast cancer organization. … Read More

In the nematode worm, C. elegans, cholinergic inputs to DD motor neurons are relocated to new positions during early larval development. Graduate student Siwei He, David Miller, Ph.D., and colleagues have determined that the immunoglobulin-like protein OIG-1 antagonizes the relocation of acetylcholine receptors in DD neurons. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos saluted faculty who have reached the 25-year milestone in their tenure at Vanderbilt during the 2015 Fall Faculty Assembly. “A quarter of a century represents a sizeable investment of one’s career, and the contributions made to Vanderbilt during this time span are significant and transformative,” Zeppos said. Honorees included… Read More

The Research Experience for Peruvian Undergraduates (REPU) connects undergraduates from Peru with internships in US and Canadian laboratories. The ultimate goal is to advance science in Peru and Latin America. The program was launched in 2007 by co-founder Abel Alcázar Román, then a Vanderbilt graduate student (now at Yale), with the support of Susan Wente. Andres Guillen Samander,… Read More

As Chairman of the Department of Cell adn Developmental Biology, I am delighted to announce the arrival of Vivian Gama, Ph.D., who is joining our department as an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2015. Vivian was recruited through the Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, and works on the function of… Read More