Karen Davis

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… Read More

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… Read More

Breann Brown, Ph.D., came to Vanderbilt University in January 2019 after completing a postdoc at MIT in the lab of Dr. Tania Baker. Although a relatively new PI, the assistant professor in Biochemistry recognizes the importance that donuts can have on lab productivity! Read more… Read More

RosettaCM drives computational modeling for antibody regions with high variability Structural information on antibody-antigen interactions is a crucial resource for understanding antibody-mediated immunity, but experimental structural information is often elusive and time-consuming to acquire. Computational modeling of antibodies and their docking to antigens has therefore become an important driver in… Read More

A facility for the production of soluble and membrane-bound eukaryotic proteins in insect and mammalian cells is now accessible to Vanderbilt research labs. The facility is part of the Program in the Molecular Basis of Genetic Diseases and is headed by Hassane Mchaourab, professor… Read More

Congratulations to Stephen Fesik on receiving the GSK Graduate School 2021 C. Chester Stock Award Lectureship. This award is given annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the advancement of cancer therapy. GSK Graduate School is part of… Read More

Eric Warren, PhD Eric Warren, PhD., completed his doctoral work at Vanderbilt in the lab of Brandt Eichman. He might just be Tennessee’s version of Batman. What is your current job and what are your responsibilities? I am currently a Senior Researcher at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and… Read More

AlphaFold2 is a breakthrough in modeling transporter conformations AlphaFold2, the neural network-based protein structure prediction algorithm developed by Google, has generated considerable hype in the structural biology community. Will structural biologists be replaced by AI? Is experimental structural biology now obsolete? Has the protein folding… Read More

Dave Anderson, PhD Dave Anderson, Ph.D., completed his doctoral work at the Medical College of Wisconsin under the direction of Dara Frank, Ph.D., before joining Borden Lacy’s lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in the summer of 2015. What are your current job title and responsibilities? I am a… Read More

Martin Egli, Biochemistry, and Joel Harp, Crystallography Facility Director, have combined X-ray and neutron crystallography to investigate the mechanics of how hydration affects DNA structure. This joint approach is important as structures determined using X-rays can only resolve the water molecules as spheres of electron density around the oxygen… Read More