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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

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