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**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)...

AlphaFold2: Transporting structural biology towards integrative approaches

Oct. 13, 2022—Have you been itching to use AlphaFold to study your protein of interest? You can “model” your study after the work of Diego del Alamo, of the Mchaourab and Meiler labs, who recently published a study of an APC transporter using this technology. Amino Acid-Polyamine-Organocation (APC) transporters are responsible for exchanging amino acids and ions...

Cleaning up the crosslinks in DNA repair

Oct. 4, 2022—Have you ever wondered how cells keep their DNA safe during replication? Does solving biochemical puzzles from protein structures interest you? Then you should read the new findings from the Eichman and Cortez labs. In their paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Katherine Paulin, Dave Cortez and Brandt Eichman have elucidated the...

CSB Spotlight: Wan Lab

Aug. 11, 2022—Some might say that Will Wan, assistant professor of biochemistry, is “one of our own.” Will completed his PhD at Vanderbilt University in the CSB lab of Gerald Stubbs, professor of biological sciences, emeritus. Will began his scientific studies at Binghamton University earning a bachelors degree in biochemistry and completed two postdoctoral fellowships in Germany....

CSB awarded NIH S10 grant

Jul. 5, 2022—Jarrod Smith, research associate professor of biochemistry, successfully submitted an S10 proposal to purchase twenty GPU compute nodes, each consisting of four NVIDIA “A6000” GPUs and 64 Intel “Platinum” CPU cores, and has received an award of nearly $600,000. This will be combined with up to $100,000 in matching funds from the VU Basic Sciences...

CSB faculty awarded Seeding Success Grants

Jun. 29, 2022—Vanderbilt University has awarded CSB faculty Martin Egli, professor of biochemistry, and Yi Ren, assistant professor of biochemistry, Seeding Success Grants. The grants support the early stages of pioneering research projects identified as likely candidates for further funding from federal, foundation and industry sponsors. Dr. Egli received his award for his research of “Microcrystal...

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