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Kathleen Gould, Louise B. McGavock Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the School of Medicine, is Vanderbilt’s winner of the 2018 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. The awards, now in their seventh year, are an initiative of SECU, the academic arm of the Southeastern Conference, and recognize senior faculty at SEC… Read More

Reporting last month in the journal Stem Cell Reports, Vanderbilt University researchers found that a form of MCL-1 maintains stem cell pluripotency through its role in the inner matrix of mitochondria, the cell’s energy producing “power plants.” When this MCL-1 is depleted by an inhibitor, stem cells differentiate. MCL-1 depletion also changes the shape… Read More

Meredith Weck's (Tyska Lab) dissertation defense is Tuesday, February 20th, 10:00 a.m. ~ 11:00 a.m., 3131 MRB III, "Mechanisms of myosin-7b function in brush border assembly" Flyer… Read More

Zachary Elmore's (Gould Lab) dissertation defense is Friday, February 23rd, 12:00 p.m. ~ 1:00 p.m., 3131 MRB III, "Stay on target: The kinase domain of CK1 enzymes contains the localization information, essential for Dma1-mediated mitotic checkpoint signaling"… Read More

Irina Kaverina, PhD, Matthew Tyska, PhD, and colleagues in Argentina explored the role of microtubules — part of the cellular “skeleton” — in building the border, which is critical for healthy organ function. The investigators used a cell model of individual intestinal cell polarization (the establishment of “sidedness”) and found that disruption… Read More

Ian Macara, PhD, Louise B. McGavock Professor and Chair of Cell and Developmental Biology and co-leader of the Signal Transduction and Chemical Biology Research Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named one of the Pink Tie Guys for the Susan G. Komen Central Tennessee organization. The Pink Tie Guys… Read More

Eleven Vanderbilt University faculty members, including Alissa Weaver and Matt Tyska, were named to endowed chairs in recognition for their outstanding scholarship and research during a celebration at the Student Life Center Nov. 29. Susan R. Wente, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, noted in her opening remarks that an endowed… Read More

Scientists are finding that they can understand organ function (and dysfunction in the case of disease) better if they know where the cells that make up these organs came from. New single-cell technologies allow all cell states within a differentiating tissue to be identified. However, the relationships between cell states that… Read More

Timothy Blackwell, Ian Macara, and Michelle Southard-Smith have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year. They are among 396 fellows from around the country selected by their peers “because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.” They join other Cell and… Read More

Fifteen Vanderbilt University faculty members conducting a range of biomedical and clinical research have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year. They are among 396 fellows from around the country selected by their peers “because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are… Read More