News

Today we had a pizza party to celebrate the online publication of Sierra’s review, “Spatiotemporal regulation of the Dma1-mediated mitotic checkpoint coordinates mitosis with cytokinesis.” In the review, Sierra discusses the checkpoint in S. pombe that controls cytokinesis onset, with a particular emphasis on how localization of two key signaling… Read More

We are excited to start off the new year welcoming rotation student Kathryn Brewer! Kathryn is in her first year of the Vanderbilt IGP program. She will be working under the mentorship of post-doc Alaina Willet for the next two months. We asked Kathryn a few… Read More

Chloe has received the inaugural Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. This is a cash award that recognizes graduate students at Vanderbilt University who have made substantial contributions to their field. In particular, Chloe has generated tools for sensing phospholipid composition in fission yeast that will be of use… Read More

Our fearless leader, Kathy Gould, Ph.D., was this year’s recipient of the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research. Congratulations, Kathy! For more information about the award, read this myVU article. Read More

Two papers are now online. Both projects were collaborations between multiple Gould lab members and we are excited that these results are now available. Post-doc Alaina Willet, grad student Chloe Snider, and undergraduate student Hannah Brown collaborated to determine if any additional lipid species are important for cell division in S. Read More