Department News
VIOM Seminar
Sep. 2, 2015—Friday, September 11th at noon in 206 PRB Kelly L. Haws PhD Associate Professor of Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University will present "Vice-Virtue Bundles"
Nicholas Vierra publishes in Diabetes
Aug. 25, 2015—Nicholas Vierra published a first-author paper in Diabetes: "The type-2 diabetes-associated K+ channel TALK-1 modulates beta-cell electrical excitability, 2nd-phase insulin secretion, and glucose homeostasis"
MPB Dissertation Defense
Aug. 17, 2015—Tuesday September 15th at noon in 206 PRB Nora Kayton from Al Powers' Laboratory will defend her thesis “Glucotoxic and Lipotoxic Consequences for Human Beta Cell Function In Vivo”
Dissertation Defense
Aug. 1, 2015—Friday August 21 at 11:00 AM in 512 Light Hall Andrea Hill from Alyssa Hasty’s Laboratory will present her thesis: “Activation of NF-KB Drives the Enhanced Survival of Adipose Tissue Macrophages in an Obesogenic Environment”
Four Pre-doctoral AHA Fellowships Awarded
Jul. 17, 2015—Four of our MPB students have been awarded Pre-Doctoral Fellowships from the American Heart Association! They are: Leslie Roteta (Vickers lab), Christian Marks (Colbran lab), Kim Montaniel (Harrison Lab), and Reid Bolus (Hasty lab). Congratulations!
MMPC Ribbon Cutting
Jun. 24, 2015—The new Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center's grand opening is on Wednesday June 24th at 4:00 in the Light Hall 835.
Dissertation Defense
Jun. 19, 2015—Tuesday, June 23rd at 9:15 AM in 512 Light Hall David Scoville from the Stein lab will present his thesis “Identification and Characterization of MAFA Coregulators: MLL3/4 and its Role in Mouse and Human Islet β cells”
Student-selected Faculty Seminar
May. 26, 2015—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"
The American Heart Association awards 4 MPB students with pre-doctoral fellowships.
May. 26, 2015—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), Allison Norlander (Harrison/Madhur Lab), and...