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‘Awards and Fellowships’

Chloe receives 2018 award for Excellence in Cell Dynamics

Jun. 7, 2018—Congratulations, Chloe!  Chloe Snider received the 2018 award for Excellence in Cell Dynamics to recognize her ongoing work investigating the role of plasma membrane lipid composition in properly executing cytokinesis.  At the 2018 Cell Dynamics Symposium on May 24-25, 2018, Chloe was one of seven impressive scientists to present their work. The other speakers included: ...

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Chloe Snider selected as VICC Graduate Student of the Year

Jun. 7, 2018—Chloe Snider received the "Graduate Student of the Year" award at the 2018 Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Annual Retreat.  She presented her research into how membrane composition contributes to proper cytokinesis in fission yeast. Congratulations on this great honor, Chloe! 

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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...

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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.

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Nathan named “Outstanding Graduate Student” by Vanderbilt CDB, and fun times at CDB Retreat 2016

Jun. 6, 2018—Congratulations to Nathan McDonald, who was named "Outstanding Graduate Student" at the 2016 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat!   https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cdb/news/2016-cdb-graduate-student-postdoc-year-announced ​

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