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Vanderbilt’s Ian Macara, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — nearly $6.6 million over seven years — to support the “unusual potential” of his research, which seeks to understand and predict cancer cell “behavior.”… Read More

The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s to PhD Bridge Program exists to improve the demographic representation in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Fisk student, Erica Tross, also a member of the Macara Lab, plans to complete her graduate studies with the goal of one day acting as a P.I. running her own laboratory. "I love the idea… Read More

Ian Macara, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, recently returned from Scotland, where he received this year’s Colin Thomson Memorial Medal for his contributions to cancer research. Ian Macara, Ph.D. The medal, sponsored by Worldwide Cancer Research, is awarded at the Beatson Institute in… Read More

Some of the world’s leading cancer research scientists gathered at the Beatson Institute in Glasgow on Sunday 5 July to hear the opening keynote speech given by this year’s recipient of the Colin Thomson Memorial Medal, Professor Ian Macara, from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The prestigious medal, sponsored by Worldwide… Read More

A collaborative study between the Ryoma (Puck) Ohi lab and the Matthew Lang lab was published online at PNAS:  "Biased Brownian motion as a mechanism to facilitate nanometer-scale exploration of the microtubule plus end by a kinesin-8" … Read More

An article co-authored by Michelle Southard-Smith was featured on the front of Cellular & Molecular Gastroenterolgoy and Hepatology.  A short feature article about the work is also attached.   Enteric neuron imbalance and proximal dysmotility in ganglionated intestine of the Sox10Dom/+ Hirschsprung mouse model, ​Musser MA, Correa H, Southard-Smith E View… Read More

Andrea Page McCaw lab member Erica Shannon won an award for “Emerging Scientist Best Short Talk” at the 19th International Symposium on Calcium Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease.  Erica's talk was entitled, Calcium Dynamics as a Potential Readout of Mechanotransduction at Epithelial Wounds.  Her award included a… Read More

Arthur Dalley is featured in the June issue of VUMC's Educator Development Core newsletter. Their Faculty Focus/Teacher Feature focuses on recent/current scholarly activity.    FACULTY FOCUS – EDUCATOR PROJECT AND TEACHER FEATURE    Arthur ("Art") F. Dalley, Ph.D. Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Adjunct Professor of Orthopedic Surgery The Department… Read More

Good afternoon everyone, I have more good news to share: Please join me in congratulating Ethan Lee and Matt Tyska on achieving full professor status effective July 1, 2015. Both Drs. Lee and Tyska received unanimous support from a vote of senior faculty in the department as well as approval… Read More