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...
Class of 2021: Undergraduate research inspires future physician-scientist to bridge the bedside and the bench
Dec. 1, 2021—When Mason Clark was in middle school, his beloved grandmother suffered a serious heart attack. She survived, thanks to the help of the local hospital, and the experience led Clark to his life’s purpose. Partly out of gratitude and partly out of curiosity, he began volunteering at the hospital and was drawn in by the...
Graduate Student Spotlight: Jonathan Davies
Nov. 30, 2021—Jonathan is a graduate student in the Lars Plate lab. He chose the Plate lab because of the interdisciplinary proteomics and chemical biology approaches they were using to study viruses and because of the outstanding training environment Lars and group members provided. His project combines chemical biology tools with quantitative mass spectrometry methods to map...
Jon Kaas receives Society for Neuroscience’s highest honor for pathbreaking cerebral cortex research
Nov. 23, 2021—Distinguished psychology professor Jon Kaas has received the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest recognition from the Society for Neuroscience, for his pathbreaking work in illuminating the structure and function of the cerebral cortex a...
Microbiome Research with Asia Miller
Nov. 19, 2021—Asia Miller working in Professor Seth Bordenstein’s lab. Photo by Joe Howell I tried to make onion juice my senior year of high school, and now I know why they don’t sell it commercially. I thought that by growing bacteria on different foods (orange juice, chocolate, and onions) suspected of causing halitosis, I could determine...
Research Snapshot: Mosquitoes have a mutual symbiotic relationship with malaria-causing pathogen
Nov. 19, 2021—By reproducing conditions under which malaria occurs in nature, the Zwiebel Lab finds that the deadly pathogens responsible for human malaria provide a specific adaptive advantage to disease-transmitting mosquitoes, explaining the persistence of this a...