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Kathleen Gould, Melanie Ohi, and colleagues have found that certain proteins involved in cell division don’t function as previously thought. Instead of bending membranes into tubes, these “F-BAR” proteins — named for a domain they share — appear to form patches on the membrane where the cell’s internal actin cytoskeleton and… Read More

Irina Kaverina, associate professor of cell and developmental biology has been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. "These extraordinary faculty members exemplify… Read More

Ken Lau, Ph.D., and colleagues have developed a method for preparing single-cell suspensions from epithelial tissues – the type of tissue from which many diseases arise. They describe the new method, DISSECT (Disaggregation for Intracellular Signaling in Single Epithelial Cells from Tissue), in the journal Molecular Systems Biology. Read More

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