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Wednesday, May 27th at noon in 206 PRB James Sutcliffe, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, presents "Towards elucidating the genetic and genomic architecture of autism spectrum disorder"… Read More

Four of our MPB students received word this week that the American Heart Association intends to fund their pre-doctoral fellowships.  The Greater Southeast chapter of the AHA is only funding 24 fellowships this cycle, and 4 of them will go to our students!  Congratulations to Christian Marks (Colbran Lab), Kim Montaniel (Harrison Lab),… Read More

The renovations of the 8th floor of Light Hall are nearing completion on the west side. The MMPC renovation is nearly complete and may be complete within a month. … Read More

Monday, May 18 at noon in 206 PRB Elizabeth Ferrick from the Emeson Lab presents “Physiological Roles of Kv1.1 RNA Editing: Implications for Episodic Ataxia Type-1”… Read More

Tuesday, May 19th at noon in 206 PRB Deborah Muoio, PhD, Associate Professor in Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University, "Nutrient-induced mitochondrial stress in obesity and diabetes"… Read More

Wednesday, June 24 at 10:00 am in 206 PRB Kristie Aamodt, Alvin Powers’ Laboratory presents Macrophages and Endothelial Cells in the Pancreatic Islet Microenvironment Promote Beta Cell Regeneration… Read More

Wednesday, May 6th at noon in 206 PRB Jens C. Brüning, Ph.D. Max Plank Institute for Metabolism Research Köln, Germany presents Hypothalamic control of glucose homeostasis … Read More

Monday, May 11 at noon in 206 PRB Clare Spielman, Neuert Lab presents “Decoding the noncoding genome: Exploring the function of lncRNA-mRNA networks” and  Nicholas Vierra, Jacobson Lab presents “A Rheostat for Beta-Cell Excitability: TALK-1 Channels Tune Insulin Secretion Under Physiological and Diabetic Conditions”… Read More

Wednesday April 29th at noon in 206 PRB Anne Kenworthy, PhD, presents  "What we learned by 'just looking': new insights into the biology of cell membranes in health and disease"… Read More

Friday, April 24 at 1:30 pm in 206 PRB Brian McKenna will defend his thesis work from Roland Stein’s Laboratory Investigations into Islet PDX1 Activity: Contribution to Mature β-Cell Identity and the Identification and Characterization of PDX1 Coregulators… Read More