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Protein Trafficking: An interactive network of coats, cargos and adaptors – Oh my!
Mar. 24, 2023—Come take a ride along the intracellular highways that are trafficking pathways! Cells use vesicles to transport diverse cargo, such as transmembrane proteins, between cellular compartments. In this complex system, membrane coat proteins work together with adaptor proteins to recruit cargo, encase them within vesicles and deliver them to the proper destination. These coat proteins...
Sanders promoted to Vice Dean of Basic Sciences
Mar. 17, 2023—Chuck Sanders was recently promoted from associate dean for research to vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences by new Dean John Kuriyan. Chuck will continue in the responsibilities that he had been fulfilling for five years as associate dean for research, which include monitoring IT infrastructure and working closely with Vanderbilt...
MBTP/CSB Student Feedback Meeting moved to March 14
Mar. 6, 2023—Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) Director Walter Chazin will sit down with students to gather feedback on the training program and seminar series. The meeting has been moved Tuesday, March 14, at 12:20pm in 1220 MRB3. A limited number of box lunches will be available. This meeting is for ALL STUDENTS in MBTP and CSB...
CSB co-hosts Discovery Lecture Series speaker
Mar. 6, 2023—The Department of Biochemistry and the CSB will host Dr. Yifan Cheng, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as The Discovery Lecture Series speaker on Thursday, March 9, at 4pm in 208 Light Hall. Dr. Cheng is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF. His...
MBTP student feedback meeting scheduled for March 7
Feb. 17, 2023—Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) Director Walter Chazin will sit down with students to gather feedback on the training program and seminar series. The meeting is scheduled for the regular seminar time slot on Tuesday, March 7, at 12:20pm in 1220 MRB3. This meeting is for ALL students in MBTP Labs and is for students...
CSB Research: Tilting retromer to improve the model
Jan. 13, 2023—Does your protein of interest show favored orientations in cryo-EM? Or perhaps one specific region is poorly resolved relative to another? If so, consider looking into this recent publication from Amy Kendall, Mintu Chandra, Will Wan and Lauren Jackson. Their findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, report an improved model of the retromer...
MBTP and CSB researchers receive MIRA grants
Jan. 10, 2023—Allison Walker and John Yang, both assistant professors of chemistry, have each been awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue their groundbreaking research. MIRA provides support for a five-year period to continue research in an investigator’s laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS....
Ivette Perez wins Karpay Award
Nov. 18, 2022—Congratulations to Ivette Perez, of the Iverson Lab, for being named the 2023 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “I am honored to have been selected for this award,” Ivette said. Ivette joined the Iverson lab in the spring 2019, but she was first exposed to various biophysical techniques and structural biology as...
CSB Research: Crystallizing P450 complexes leads to evolutionary implications
Nov. 8, 2022—Did you know that the cytochrome P450 enzyme family is one of the largest found in nature? These enzymes are found in all domains of life and catalyze electron transport for diverse processes like sterol biosynthesis and the activation/detoxification of drugs. Drs. Galina Lepesheva and Jarrod Smith recently published a structural characterization of the CYP51-ferredoxin...
CSB faculty receive awards
Oct. 26, 2022—CSB faculty Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis and John Yang were recently recognized for their work in promoting diversity and inclusion in science, Alzheimer’s research and computational enzyme design. Fisk University Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Life and Physical Sciences, Steven Damo was awarded a Science Diversity Leadership grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)...