Vanderbilt Biochemistry

Join us this Thursday for Jillian Armenia’s Biochemistry dissertation defense: “Single and Ready to Untangle: Mechanistic Insights into Dual-Function Gyrases and Their Inhibition by Antibacterial Agents.” 📅 March 12 | 3 PM | Light Hall 214

Please join us for today's Colloquium Series Seminar, where we will be hearing from graduate students Houde Li of the @davidkcortez lab and Miriam Bregman of the Mitchell lab. Lunch served at 11:45AM, talk at noon, 214 LH.

Please join us for today's Colloquium Series Seminar where we will be hearing from Gabriela Gonzalez-Vasquez of the @davidkcortez lab! Talk begins at noon, lunch served at 11:45. 208LH

Please join us for today's Emerging Scholars Lecture featuring Prof. Lauren Hagler (Texas A&M Univ.) held in MRB III (room 1220) at 2:30 PM!

Please join us for today's Colloquium Series Presentation featuring Tara Hickman (@ttt_hickman) of the Peck Lab (@SunHPeck)! Lunch served at 11:45, talk begins at noon. LH 202.

Congratulations to Kate Clowes Moster of the Sanders Lab on receiving the Dr. Anne Karpay award in Structural biology!

FRONTIERS SEMINAR RESCHEDULED. A reminder that the Richard Armstrong Lecture featuring Prof. Elizabeth Villa (Univ. California - San Diego) to be held today has been rescheduled for Fall 2026 (date TBD).

Trainees - check out this great opportunity to present your research to a broader audience! (shared on behalf of VICB)

Please join us for today's Colloquium Series presentation where we will hear from Jill Armenia of the Osheroff Lab (@Topo_Lab)! (LH 208, Lunch is served at 11:45 AM, talk beginning at noon)

Please join us for today's Colloquium series presentation, where we will be hearing from Samika Joshi (@samika_joshi) of the @Topo_Lab. (lunch served @ 11:45, talk @ noon, LH 214)

Please join us today for the BPSA Colloquium Series Seminar, where we will be hearing from Louis Otero of the @FolkmannLab. (12pm, LH214)

Please join us for the 2025-2026 BPSA Colloquium kick-off today with the "State of the Department" address by Profs. Cortez (@davidkcortez) and Kojetin (@DougKojetin). The event will be held in LH214 (lunch served at 11:45, discussion to begin at noon). Hope to see you there!

🎉 Congrats to VICB member David Cortez on receiving the Chancellor’s Award for Research at Vanderbilt’s Fall Faculty Assembly! His Science paper on RAD51 and DNA replication is reshaping our understanding of genome stability. 🔗 news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/03/fal…

A new study from the Douglas Kojetin lab (Biochemistry), led by staff scientist Paola Munoz-Telloby and graduate student Christopher Williams, used NMR to study Pin1–PPARγ binding, advancing insight into Pin1 catalysis and PPARγ regulation. bit.ly/488vJsw #study #lab

Please join us this afternoon for an Italian Ice Social, hosted by the BPSA!

Please join us in supporting @EmmaVontalge of the @Dewar_Lab as she defends her dissertation today!

🏆 Huge congrats to Kevin McCarty of @VanderbiltU @VandyBiochem for winning Best Student Presentation at the International Conference on Cytochrome P450 in Switzerland! Even more impressive? He also won at the last conference in Japan! #ICCP450

Reminder to join us for donuts this morning, courtesy of the BPSA!

Thanks to Neil Osheroff from @VandyBiochem and his #research into bacterial topoisomerases, a new class of #antibiotics is showing groundbreaking potential to treat drug-resistant infections. Read this great article by @Tennessean for more info 👉 tennessean.com/story/news/hea…

👩‍🔬 Alum Kaitlyn Browning says biomedical #research demands adaptability, creativity, and perseverance—skills honed through training that now shape every part of her life. She learned much of these lessons while studying @VandyBiochem at @VanderbiltU! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…