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2025 Student Research Symposium

Friday, August 1, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Student Life Center

To receive the registration link or be added to the CBAS mailing list, email CBAS@Vanderbilt.edu. 

Guest Speaker

Martin Burke, Ph.D., May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation & Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Martin Burke

"Imagine A World Where Anyone Can Make Molecules"

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Agenda

Awards

  • Richard Armstrong Prize

    Ryan Fansler (Ph.D. candidate in the Wenhan Zhu lab) NO Country for B. theta: A Novel sRNA-DNA-Transcription Factor Complex Coordinates Commensal Nitrosative Stress Response

  • Grand Prize Poster Award

    Kathryn Penton (Ph.D. candidate in the Brian Bachmann lab)

  • Trainee Flash Talks

    Raleigh Jonscher (Fiona Harrison lab), Christina Jimenez (Jens Meiler lab), Scott Benner (Jeff Johnston lab), Mudit Agarwal (Jens Meiler lab), Kateryna Nabukhotna (Borden Lacy lab), Jake Hermanson (Lars Plate lab), Valentina Guidi (Daria Kim lab), Shravan Dommaraju (Doug Mitchell lab), Preston Gourville (Jeff Johnston lab), Yanqing Xue (Doug Mitchell lab), Ashraf Mohammed (Aseem Ansari lab, St. Jude), Kate Clowes Moster (Chuck Sanders lab), Mayuresh Gadgil (Doug Mitchell lab), Clay Tydings (Jens Meiler lab), Mason Wilkinson (Chuck Sanders lab), Sophia Hamza (Jens Meiler lab), Harrison Parent (Colleen Niswender lab)

  • Faculty/Trainee Tag Team Talks

    John Wilson, PhD (Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, VU)/ Jake Schulman Engineering Polymeric STING Agonist Delivery Platforms for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Allison Walker, PhD (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, VU) / Emilee Patterson Prediction of elicitor regulator pairs to enable secondary metabolite discovery

    Brian Bachmann, PhD (Stevenson Professor of Chemistry, VU)/Kathryn Penton Lost on the cutting room floor, spirocyclic β-lactone polyketides editing spliceosome function

    Sarah Zelle (Ph.D. candidate under Drs. Kevin Schey and Hassane Mchaourab) Proteomic analysis of adult Nrf2 and αB-crystallin mutant zebrafish lenses under oxidative stress

  • St. Jude Presentation

    Daniel Blair, PhD (Assistant Member, St. Jude) Fragmentation-First Experimentation 

Photos

Richard Armstrong Prize winner, Ryan Fansler from the Wenhan Zhu lab.
Richard Armstrong Prize winner, Ryan Fansler from the Wenhan Zhu lab.
John Wilson and Jake Schulman faculty/trainee tag team talk
John Wilson and Jake Schulman faculty/trainee tag team talk
Daniel Blair from St Jude
Daniel Blair from St Jude
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker, Marty Burke
Ancora
Sponsored by Ancora Innovation (Deerfield Management)
CBAS
Organized by Vanderbilt Chemical Biology Association of Students
Contact

If you have questions, please email Tia Patton.