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Meiler Lab works with computer game to allow citizen scientists to assist in research

Dec. 17, 2021—Meiler lab researchers, Thomas Scott, research scientist/engineer, and Rocco Moretti, research associate professor, like to think of science as a game. Their favorite game to play is Foldit, a crowdsourced computer game enabling citizen scientists to assist protein folding research by competing with one another to achieve the best score possible for a folded structure....

Welcome New CSB Employees: Sai Medury & Mariam Haider

Dec. 14, 2021—The Center for Structural Biology welcomes Sai Medury and Mariam Haider to the team! Sai is as associate system administrator brought in to help maintain and troubleshoot CSB systems. He plays the role of CSB liaison to ACCRE and will work closely with the ACCRE team to fast-track task projects related to CSB systems. He’ll...

Volunteer for the ASC Way Late Play Date December 16

Dec. 8, 2021—Usher in the holidays with VI4 and CSB at the Way Late Play Date: Wizarding World at Adventure Science Center on Thursday, December 16, 6:30 – 10 PM. The evening includes a Hogwarts House hat sorting, wand making and other magical lessons for muggles including Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, Divination, Astronomy and more. Volunteers...

Noah Bradley wins Karpay Award

Nov. 19, 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,” Noah said. Noah joined Brandt Eichman’s lab in 2017 after graduating from The Ohio State University in 2016 with a major in molecular genetics....

Commodore Alum brings DeepMind to AlphaFold

Nov. 5, 2021—Vanderbilt alum Dr. John Jumper took a unique path to becoming research lead for the groundbreaking protein structure prediction database, AlphaFold. Jumper is a research scientist at DeepMind and leads a team developing new computational methods to enable accurate predictions of protein behavior, most notably 3-D protein structures. With his scientific accomplishments to date, you...

Marnett stepping down as dean of Basic Sciences

Oct. 27, 2021—Lawrence J. Marnett, PhD, will step down as dean of Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine Basic Sciences effective June 30, 2022. He was its inaugural dean and key in leading its ascension as one of the nation’s top biomedical research & doctoral programs. He plans to return to the faculty in 2023 after taking a...

CSB Alumni Spotlight: Norie Sugitani, PhD

Oct. 27, 2021—Norie Sugitani, Ph.D., completed her doctoral work at Vanderbilt in 2017. Her aspirations to become an astronaut led her from her birthplace in Western Japan to the United States, eventually leading her to the lab of Walter Chazin. A major health challenge facing astronauts is high exposure to radiation from the sun, which led her...

CSB Spotlight: Nakagawa Lab

Oct. 27, 2021—Teru Nakagawa, professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, serves as the scientific director for the CSB Cryo-EM facility, but he’s also very involved in other programs and centers, including the Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. He also uses a diverse range of techniques to address...

Brown and Wan win NIH New Innovator Awards

Oct. 14, 2021—Breann Brown and Will Wan, both assistant professors of biochemistry and CSB faculty, have been awarded NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards. They are among three Vanderbilt researchers to receive an award for their high-risk, high-reward research. The award will support Breann’s project, Off the beaten path(way): Spatiotemporal investigation of protein assemblies controlling mitochondrial metabolism, where...

Chuck Sanders Receives Armstrong Mentoring Award

Sep. 23, 2021—Congratulations to Chuck Sanders, professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, on receiving the 2021 Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award from the Department of Biochemistry! Chuck was selected for his outstanding and tireless dedication to mentoring approximately 20 undergraduate students, 12 graduate students and 29 current and former postdoctoral trainees, as well as his leadership and contributions to...

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