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Everyday action item: make your images more accessible by adding alt text
Jun. 29, 2021—Alternative text, or alt text, are words that describe an image or other graphic. Alt text helps people with low vision, and others who use assistive technology such as screen readers, understand what’s happening in the image. Taking this extra step improves your communication by making your information more accessible, and it signals to readers...
Recent graduation photos of Dr. Frye and Dr. Rasmussen
Jun. 24, 2021—Keyada Frye, Ph.D. Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Irina Kaverina, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: The role of the motor kinesin, KIF1C, in vascular smooth muscle cell podosome regulation Megan Rasmussen, Ph.D Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Vivian Gama, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: Understanding the mechanisms by which the BCL-2 family of proteins regulate mitochondrial dynamics and function in human embryonic stem...
Gabriella Robertson wins Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship
Jun. 11, 2021—Gabriella Robertson (Gama lab) has been awarded the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship award provides financial support for a student selected as the most outstanding candidate from among those selected to receive Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) graduate scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship was established...
Guarnaccia highlighted as #VU2021 grad
Jun. 9, 2021—Alissa Guarnaccia is jumping into a highly sought-after research career to help find treatments for cancer at the cellular level. But lately she’s taking time to write lots of thank-you letters, even to some of her old high school teachers. “Without the people who believed in me and without their encouragement, I would not be...
Ian Macara moderates the Discussion on the Origins of Life
Jun. 5, 2021—by Marissa Shapiro Jun. 3, 2021, 9:00 AM How do academics with diverse areas of expertise view the origins of life? What kind of conversation would take place among a cell biologist, a theologian, an astronomer/physicist and a philosopher if they all sat around the same table? A virtual discussion hosted by the School of...
A compound to counteract aging?
May. 20, 2021—Apr. 29, 2021, 9:53 AM by Leigh MacMillan Aging is a primary risk factor for many chronic diseases. Strategies to slow the aging process and improve health have focused on limiting nutrients, but fasting is difficult. Jason MacGurn, PhD, and colleagues including Robert Dickson, PhD, at the University of Kentucky, have explored a pharmacological approach to increase longevity. Dickson’s...
Registration is now open for Cell Dynamics Symposium 2021
Apr. 23, 2021—The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University will host its third Cell Dynamics Symposium on May 20th & May 21st, 2021. This event will be held virtually over Zoom. Invited speakers include Marc Kirschner, Ph.D., John Franklin Enders University Professor; Chair Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Gia Voeltz, Ph.D., HHMI, Professor of Molecular,...
Gould to assume leadership of the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training
Apr. 23, 2021—Kathy Gould, Louise McGavock Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and senior associate dean for biomedical research, education and career development will assume leadership of the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training. Kathy has worked alongside Roger Chalkley, who is retiring this summer, for over 10 years and is well versed in the functions of...
3 QUESTIONS ON… How Tumor Cells Grow With Maria Fomicheva of Vanderbilt University
Apr. 23, 2021—Maria Fomicheva (Kaverina lab) is featured in the April 20, 2021 issue of Oncology Times. CRISPR (which stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) is a genome screening tool that allows researchers to edit or delete individual genes—as well as identify the specific genes in the body responsible for certain traits. Now researchers have...
Sara Ramirez awarded F31 predoctoral fellowship
Apr. 20, 2021—Sara Ramirez (graduate student, Fuhrmann lab) was awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Eye Institute at the beginning of April. Her thesis project delves into the role of candidate regulatory pathways in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) regeneration and repair. I aim to stimulate regeneration in a non-regenerative mouse model and obtain a molecular read...
Gabriella Robertson and Gillian Fitz to receive the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) award
Apr. 17, 2021—The Graduate School has approved the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology’s nomination for Gabriella Robertson and Gillian Fitz to receive the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) award, an annual $5,000 service-free stipend which pays monthly from August 2021 through July 2023.
Chloe Snider recognized with Alan Hall Award
Apr. 16, 2021—Recent Ph.D. graduate Chloe Snider (CDB, Kathy Gould lab) was recognized by the Journal of Cell Biology with the Alan Hall Award, granted to outstanding graduate students and first-year postdocs whose work was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
Zanic receives 2020 Early Career Award
Apr. 16, 2021—Marija Zanic received the 2020 Early Career Award from the Motility & Cytoskeleton subgroup. She accepted the award and presented a talk at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, which took place in February.
Ramirez receives NIH award
Apr. 16, 2021—Sara Ramirez, graduate student in CDB, Sabine Fuhrmann lab received an award from the NIH.
Wojciechowski awarded NCI grant
Apr. 16, 2021—Andrea Wojciechowski, graduate student in CDB, Bill Tansey lab, has recently been awarded a received grants from the National Cancer Institute.