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Looking in All Directions: Exploring a New Horizon for PCOS Therapeutics

Nov. 14, 2024—This article was originally published in The Protein Society’s November 2024 Under the Microscope newsletter. It is published here by permission of The Protein Society and the author. By Kathryn R. Brewer, PhD Candidate in Biochemistry, Sanders Lab A 20-year-old woman waits to see her gynecologist. For years she has been experiencing troubling symptoms —...

Jenny Tran wins the Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology

Nov. 12, 2024—Congratulations to Jenny Tran, of the Breann Brown lab, on being named the 2025 recipient of the Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “It’s such an honor to be selected as the recipient of the Karpay Award,” Tran said. Although she completed a summer research internship with Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor David G....

MOE November Software Training

Nov. 12, 2024—Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) software users can participate in training sessions focused on Antibody Modeling and Protein Engineering applications. The sessions are held at various dates throughout November and cover topics, including, protein engineering and properties, developability, hot spot analysis, antibody modeling, humanization and molecular surfaces. Mauricio Rodriguez, of Chemical Computing Group, will lead the...

Unlocking the Secrets of Protein Folding

Oct. 18, 2024—It’s often the simplest and most informal of invitations that can open a world of endless possibilities and lifelong relationships. That’s how Professor Jens Meiler’s extraordinary scientific journey began in the lab of Nobel Prize winner David Baker. What has he made of the opportunities presented to him that day? Here is his story. ...

Meiler lab receives funding to advance vaccine research against alphaviruses

Oct. 11, 2024—The Meiler lab is leading a multi-institution team that was awarded up to $46 million in funding to drive groundbreaking vaccine research from ARPA-H‘s Antigens Predicted for Broad Viral Efficacy through Computational Experimentation (APECx) program. The funding will support a consortium of 14 principal investigators (PIs) across eight institutions, enabling a collaborative effort to push...

CSB adds Carterra LSAXT to its stable of instruments

Sep. 25, 2024—Carterra Inc., the world leader in innovative technologies enabling high-throughput biology, and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences announced the addition of the Carterra LSAXT label-free interaction analysis platform to the Center for Structural Biology. Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers will be able to discover and characterize large molecules including antibodies....

V-FIRST is hiring tenure-track faculty in Structural Biology & Imaging

Sep. 18, 2024—V-FIRST is hiring a cohort of up to 8 highly-motivated and accomplished early-career researchers. These tenure-track (Assistant Professor level) faculty positions offer an excellent opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in one of two areas: 1) Structural Biology & Imaging or 2) Genetic and Omic Discovery & Health Disparities. Priority deadline to apply is November...

Iverson receives Innovation Catalyst Fund award

Sep. 4, 2024—Tina Iverson, Louise B. McGavock Chair and professor of pharmacology, received an Innovation Catalyst Fund award for her research project, “Inhibition of Bacterial Chemotaxis as an Antibiotic Potentiator,” which focuses on chemotaxis—a versatile process that allows bacteria to swim toward energy-rich molecules, find preferred niches for infection, avoid harmful species, change speeds, and form biofilms—as...

CryoEM awarded S10 grant

Sep. 4, 2024—Teru Nakagawa and the CSB CryoEM Facility have been awarded an NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant to purchase a Talos L120C TEM. This TEM will be used to image negatively-stained samples and for screening vitrified samples. Researchers will use this robust screening TEM for extensive trial and error efforts to optimize and identify specimens most...

September MOE advanced training sessions: X-ray crystallography

Aug. 30, 2024—Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) software users can participate in training sessions focused on X-ray crystallography. The sessions are held throughout September and cover topics, including, structure preparation, sidechain rotamer exploration, electron density maps and solvent analysis with 3D-RISM. Mauricio Rodriguez, of Chemical Computing Group, will lead the training sessions via Zoom. Sign up for as...

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