Karen Davis

Ivette Perez, Iverson Lab 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,… Read More

Galina Lepesheva, Jarrod Smith 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… Read More

Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis, John Yang 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… Read More

Diego del Alamo 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… Read More

Katherine Paulin, PhD 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… Read More

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… Read More

Jarrod Smith 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… Read More

Martin Egli, Biochemistry 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… Read More

Will Wan, Biochemistry Will Wan, assistant professor of biochemistry, has been named a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The… Read More

Marija Zanic, Cell & Developmental Biology Marija Zanic, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, is one of thirteen faculty members from across the university to be selected for the 2022 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The selected faculty members will meet as… Read More