Karen Davis

Paul Barrett, PhD, and family Paul Barrett, PhD, completed his doctoral work in 2013. He’s always had an avid interest in science and wanted to combine that love with helping others. He developed an interest in studying neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases while working in the lab of… Read More

In a year with many global setbacks, here’s a reflection of the many accomplishments and contributions from the CSB/MBTP community during 2021 – and it doesn’t include the more than 115 research papers that were published. Impressive!        … Read More

Thomas Scott and Rocco Moretti, PhD, of the Meiler Lab 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… Read More

The Center for Structural Biology welcomes Sai Medury and Mariam Haider to the team! Sai Medury, Computation 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… Read More

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… Read More

Noah Bradley 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… Read More

John Jumper, PhD 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… Read More

Larry Marnett 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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More