SPRING Talks
Exchanging discoveries and promoting new ideas
We organize and host the Stem & PRogenitor Cell INterest Group (SPRING) series.These meetings occur on a bi-weekly basis on Wednesdays at 9:00 am throughout the academic year and enable faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to present and discuss work in progress. The meetings will be held in 9455 MRB IV.
Upcoming SPRING Talks – Spring 2026
January 21: Chris Wright, D. Phil., Director, Vanderbilt University Program in Developmental Biology, Associate Director, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, Louise B. McGavock Chair, Professor and Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
February 4: Jen Sucre, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology
February 18: Amanda Ruelas, Graduate Student (Choi Lab) and Amelia Cephas, Graduate Student (DelGiorno Lab)
March 4: Leesa Sampson, Ph.D., Associate Director, Vanderbilt Genome Editing Resource, Anna Osipovich, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Kasia Jopek, M.S., Research Specialist, Vanderbilt Genome Editing Resource
March 18: TBA
April 1: Jim Goldenring, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery and Cell & Developmental Biology, Paul W. Sanger Chair in Experimental Surgery
April 15: Chance Meers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
April 29: Halee Scott, Graduate Student (Choi Lab), Thomas Mehaffey, Graduate Student (Southard-Smith Lab)
SPRING Talks – Fall 2025
September 3: Ethan Lee, MD, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Pharmacology
September 17: Lauren Woodard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
October 1: Sabine Fuhrmann, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell and Developmental Biology
October 15: Krishna Mudumbi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
October 29: Nicholas Zachos, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology
November 12: Ed Levine, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell and Developmental Biology
December 10: Michelle Southard-Smith, Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology.