Karen Davis

FSC plot The CSB Cryo-EM Facility is thrilled to announce that the G4 Titan Krios cryo-TEM, located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building, is fully operational and accepting biological samples for imaging. The Titan Krios utilizes levels of automation to collect high-resolution data for single-particle analysis… Read More

Although the world might have shut down last year, Vanderbilt Researchers worked at home and during the research ramp-up to find ways to crack the code of SARS-Co-V2. Research from the Sanders Lab that targets the SARS-CoV-2 E membrane protein. The research focuses on the ability to create a… Read More

Yi Ren, Biochemistry Congratulations to CSB Researcher Yi Ren, Biochemistry, on being recognized as a School of Medicine Basic Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellow. She and Gregor Neuert, MPB, follow in the footsteps of inaugural fellows Marija Zanic, CDB, and Manuel Ascano,… Read More

Borden Lacy, PMI Borden Lacy (Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology) has been named Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology. She has been CSB Deputy Director since 2017. Walter Chazin is stepping down as CSB Director after 21 years at the reins. He is taking… Read More

Michael Rosen, PhD, professor and chair of Biophysics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will discuss mysterious cellular compartments known as “biomolecular condensates” as part of the Discovery Lecture Series. Rosen’s lecture, “Cellular Organization Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation,” is on Thursday, Jan. 14 at… Read More

Congratulations to James Hutchison for being named the 2021 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “I am honored to receive this award,” James said. James has been a member of the Sanders Lab for over five years, allowing for… Read More

Hassane Mchaourab, MPB CSB Researcher Hassane Mchaourab was awarded the 2019 IES Silver Medal for Biology/Medicine by the International EPR (ESR) Society. The goal of the IES is to stimulate scientific development of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), also known as electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy,… Read More

Chuck Sanders, Biochemistry Congratulations to CSB Researcher Chuck Sanders! Chuck is the president-elect of The Protein Society. He will serve as president for three years, during which he will also be the chair of the Executive Council… Read More

CSB Researchers are doing great science! Congratulations to CSB Researcher Hassane Mchaourab, Ph.D., on receiving one of the three VICB Most Highly Cited Articles Award for 2020!   Congratulations to Mac Castro, of the Sanders Lab, and Ellie Okwei, of the… Read More

Teru Nakagawa, MPB The speed of neurotransmission in different parts of the brain affects brain function. CSB Researcher Teru Nakagawa, Ph.D, and colleagues have found that an auxiliary subunit shared by the AMPA receptor and the GSG1L brain regulator slows down brain cell activity in the anterior… Read More