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Eric receives VUSRP Fellowship for summer research
Jun. 7, 2018—Congratulations, Eric! Eric is a rising junior working with post-doc Sierra Cullati to study the role of fission yeast CK1 kinases in DNA damage response. He has just been awarded a Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) Fellowship to enable him to continue this research over the summer. The program involves 10 weeks of full time...
Kathy receives 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Jun. 7, 2018—Congratulations, Kathy! For more information about the award, visit https://www.thesecu.com/news/sec-selects-2018-faculty-achievement-award-recipients/. Also, read this article featured on Research News @ Vanderbilt.
Congratulations, goodbye, and good luck, Zac!
Jun. 7, 2018—Grad student Zac Elmore defended his thesis entitled "Stay on target: The kinase domain of CK1 enzymes contains the localization information essential for Dma1-mediated mitotic checkpoint signaling" on February 23, 2018. This week we said good bye to Zac as he departed for North Carolina where he will continue his training in the lab of...
Welcome, Charita!
Jun. 7, 2018—Charita is an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt who will be doing research under Chloe Snider's mentorship. We asked her some questions to get to know her… Where did you grow up/where were you before Vanderbilt/what do you consider to be your “hometown”? I spent most of my childhood in Georgia, but I was actually...
Congratulations, Dr. Willet!
Jun. 6, 2018—Alaina successfully defended her thesis "Mechanisms regulating cytokinetic contractile ring formation and anchoring Schizosaccharomyces pombe." We celebrated all of Alaina's contributions to the lab and scientific community including mentorship of rotation students (e.g. Chloe) and undergraduates (e.g. Hannah), quantitative microscopy techniques that she learned at Woods Hole, and the widespread adaptation of the mNeonGreen fluorophore by our lab and...