Jenny Tran presents Karpay Award Seminar January 21

Posted by daviskd2 on Friday, January 17, 2025 in News.

2025 Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology Winner Jenny Tran, of the Breann Brown lab, gives the MBTP/CSB Seminar on Tuesday, January 21, at 12:20pm in 1220 MRB3.

Although in high school Jenny completed a summer research internship with Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor David Lynn at Emory University, she originally wanted to pursue architecture at the University of Georgia.

The tug of the basic sciences soon pulled Jenny into the lab of Professor James Prestegard where she worked on method development for predicting NMR chemical shifts of sparsely labeled proteins. Her newfound love of research helped her to earn a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a minor in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

As a fifth-year graduate student in the Biochemistry Graduate Program working in the lab of Professor Breann Brown, Jenny’s research focuses on dissecting the allostery involved in heme biosynthesis initiation using an integrated structural biology approach. Her work has led to numerous collaborations with other Vanderbilt labs, including the labs of Jens Meiler, John Yang and Jason MacGurn.

Jenny’s interests outside the lab include creative writing, crafting and music, particularly playing the piano and attending Broadway shows. Her love of music and entertaining led her to serve on the organizing committee for the 2022 BRET Winter Showcase.

Jenny presents Communication Runs in Our Blood: From Proteins to People as the MBTP/CSB Karpay Award seminar. Lunch will be served before the seminar. A reception will immediately follow the seminar for a toast and the award presentation.

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