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Happy holidays!
Thanks to biomedical research, we can gather in person this holiday season, albeit with appropriate precautions. We head into the holidays with a sense of gratitude and hope. Regardless of what holiday you celebrate or what traditions you follow, I wish you all the joy of the season, an opportunity to relax, and the time to reflect toward a new year.
Larry Marnett
Dean, Basic Sciences
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Calipari named Dean's Faculty Fellow
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Beasly, Brookens earn Just Postgraduate Fellowship
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Trainee fellowships
The following students or postdocs received fellowships or grants from different funding agencies:
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke: Alexandra Schwartz (CPB, Hassane Mchaourab lab).
- American Physician-Scientist Association: Eric Donahue (CDB, Kris Burkewitz lab), travel grant.
- American Pancreatic Association: Leah Caplan (CDB, Kathy DelGiorno lab), Young Investigator Award (travel).
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Hinton lab members earn five travel awards
Members of the lab of Antentor Hinton Jr. (MPB) received five travel awards to attend the 2021 meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology:
- AJ Hinton: Cell Bio Virtual 2021 Attendance Grant
- Andrea Marshall: Cell Bio Virtual 2021 Attendance Grant
- Heather Beasley: Cell Bio Virtual 2021 Attendance Grant and ASCB Women in Cell Biology Childcare Grant
- Kit Neikirk: Cell Bio Virtual 2021 Attendance Grant
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Ho earns P&T grant
Kung-Hsien Ho (Irina Kaverina lab) has been awarded a DRTC Pilot & Feasibility grant from the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research.
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A holiday message from Sanders
Chuck Sanders (Biochemistry) has some thoughts about tractor pulls, Twelfth Night, and bridging the gap between in-groups and out-groups.
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Retrospective on Cohen's Nobel Prize, bench dedication
As part of the Department of Biochemistry’s 2021 “Frontiers in Biochemistry” seminar series, Jan Jordan, widow to the late Professor of Biochemistry Stanley Cohen, spoke about the experience of Cohen receiving the Nobel Prize in 1986. If you missed it, you can view it on YouTube. A bench on campus was also dedicated to Cohen, with several current and former university and department leadership present.
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Hinton new special editor in Cells
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Hadjifrangiskou named new MHI DGS
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Fresh-from-the-oven grads
The following students successfully defended their dissertation between September and November:
- Biochemistry: Archana Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D.
- Cancer Biology: Tolu Omokehinde, Ph.D.
- Pharmacology: Ben Coleman, Ph.D.; Breanna Gibson, Ph.D.
Want to keep up with upcoming defenses? Bookmark this calendar. And let us know if we missed anyone from this list!
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Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion
The Cell and Developmental Biology CoDI subcommittee is hosting a series of conversations that are open to the entire Vanderbilt and medical center communities. Attend one or all—whatever works for you. The spring sessions will take place at 4:00 p.m. on February 1, March 1, March 29, and April 26. Make sure you register in advance. Questions? Email the CoDI leadership.
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The Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology will hold its VCSCB Symposium on May 19, 2022. The symposium will focus on "Stem Cell States and Transitions" and will feature two keynote speakers plus faculty/student talks and poster sessions. Save the date!
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NIGMS National and Regional Resources (R24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages applications for support of resources that will provide access to state-of-the-art equipment, technologies, research tools, materials, organisms, software, and/or services to a substantial regional (multi-state) or national user base. Applications open May 14, 2022. More information on the NIH website.
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"Widening the Lens" course open for applications
Apply to attend the "Widening the Lens" microscopy education program to be held this spring. The course is open to graduate students and postdocs in the biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt and beyond. Faculty and staff will also be considered on a case-by-case basis. The schedule for this semester-long course will be set based on the availability of the enrollees. Apply now!
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Science Communication Animation Awards
Apply for the opportunity to have your research made into a two-minute video through Edge for Scholars and Kindea Labs. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. More information on the Edge for Scholars website.
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Access Nature Masterclasses
The Research Education Program at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has arranged for all students, faculty, and staff at VU and VUMC to be able to take part in Nature Masterclasses, which are developed by Nature Research and provide professional development training for researchers by drawing on the expertise of Nature journal editors and experts. Sign up here with your @vumc.org or @vanderbilt.edu email address.
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New: VIRAL student/postdoc group
A group of graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members have formed a university-recognized group called the Vanderbilt International Researcher Alliance, meant to provide support to the international community. Visit their page on Anchorlink for more information and to sign up for updates.
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Keep up with biomedical science seminars
To receive weekly email notices about upcoming seminars focused on the biomedical sciences, please email Tracy O'Brien. To submit your event, please send an email to the "biosciences" address.
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If your paper has been accepted...
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Please fill out this form and tell us a little about your paper and its impact.
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Keep up with Basic Sciences!
Basic Sciences has a number of new communication avenues that you or your friends and family can use to keep up with what's going on. If you're not already getting the Reading List, Vital, and Lab-to-Table Conversations announcements, you can sign up through our subscription center!
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In the last issue, we misspelled Madhvi Venkatesh's name. Our apologies.
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About this Issue’s Banner
This image of a metaplastic duct in the pancreas shows lineage-traced acinar cells in green and tuft cells in red. The co-immunofluorescence image was taken by the lab of Kathy DelGiorno (CDB) as part of a project that’s looking at acinar-to-ductal metaplasia, as ADM occurs in the pancreas in response to tissue injury and is a potential precursor for adenocarcinoma. The cells were, of course, decorated for the holidays!
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Catch Up on Basic Sciences News!
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Faculty & Facility Profiles
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This newsletter recognizes the achievements and latest discoveries of students, postdocs, faculty, and staff associated with Basic Sciences departments, centers, and cores or who carry out basic biomedical research at Vanderbilt.
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Faculty Profile: Kathy DelGiorno
Kathy DelGiorno, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, discusses her research to uncover early changes in the pancreas leading to cancer. View on YouTube.
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