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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… Read More

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. Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More

We celebrated our last defense of the summer! Christine Jones presented her thesis "Regulation of the key mitotic checkpoint protein Dma1 through post-translational modifications."  Thanks to all of Christine's friends and family who joined us for this occasion!  Christine has moved on to work as a Senior Associate Scientist at AxioMX… Read More