Megan Behringer named 2022-24 Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Jan. 21, 2022— Assistant Professor Megan Behringer has been awarded the Steven and Bunny Fayne Dean’s Faculty Fellowship in Biological Sciences
Amanda Lea named 2022-24 Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Jan. 21, 2022— Assistant Professor Amanda Lea has been awarded the Frank Kelly Dean’s Faculty Fellowship in Climate Studies.
Assistant Professor Lauren Parker Jackson is Featured by NIH
Jan. 20, 2022—Dr. Jackson participated in a Q&A with science writer Abbey Bigler which was featured in the Biomedical Beat Blog for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. You can read Dr. Jackson’s interview regarding her career and research here!
Vanderbilt researchers combine paleontology and fluid physics to uncover Ediacaran nurseries
Jan. 7, 2022—Looking at prehistoric organisms allows Simon Darroch and his students to describe how, when and why complex life evolved on this planet. Their work is a piece of the puzzle in understanding how likely it is that we’ll find complex life beyond Earth.
Vanderbilt scientist’s team project wins $55,000 for cell research
Jan. 6, 2022—Lars Plate wins $55,000 from Scialog to further collaborative research on cell behavior.
MARC Scholars Award Winners 2021
Dec. 15, 2021—Congratulations to MARC Scholars Elicia Osigwe, Tiffany-Chau Le and Sim Plotkin for winning presentation awards at 2021 ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students)! Junior Tiffany-Chau Le, Dr. Todd Graham, and Dr. Eugenia Yazlovitskaya (Biological Sciences) Senior Simcha Plotkin and Dr. Kathy Friedman (Biological Sciences) ...
Research Snapshot: Producing green fuel, and more rapid determination of the biological consequences of gene editing
Dec. 13, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers examine how to rapidly characterize the biological impact of genetic editing on bacteria for energy production, drug discovery and more. Est. reading time: 2.5 mins.
Research Snapshot: Producing green fuel, and more rapid determination of the biological consequences of gene editing
Dec. 13, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers examine how to rapidly characterize the biological impact of genetic editing on bacteria for energy production, drug discovery and more. Est. reading time: 2.5 mins.
Graduate student Noah Bradley wins Karpay Award
Dec. 3, 2021—Congratulations to Noah Bradley of the Eichman Lab, for being named the 2022 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “I am very grateful and humbled to receive this award,” Bradley shares. Noah joined Brandt Eichman’s lab in 2017, after graduating from Ohio State University in 2016, with a major in molecular genetics. His passion for...
2021 Biological Sciences Graduate Student Awards
Dec. 1, 2021—Graduate Research Excellence Award Jacob Steenwyk for research on fungal phylogenetics, budding yeast evolution, and the evolution of Aspergillus pathogenicity Hickory Stick Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Anne Hatmaker for the creation and effective teaching of a new course on Genomics, and Natalie Wallace for...