Lab News
- Big congrats to Ali on winning the Dr. Laura Busenlehner Award for Outstanding Leadership & Research!
- Bradley’s paper on human TREX-2 and TREX-2.1 is online in Nature Communications! Congratulations to all authors!
- We are delighted to welcome graduate students Lily and Jessilyn into the Ren lab!
- We are delighted to welcome Keyon to the lab!
- Our work on the TREX-2 complex is online.
- Congratulations Ali on the Frank Chytil Travel Award!
- Mei defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Mei!
- Ali has successfully passed her qualifying exam! Congratualtions!
- Mei’s first author paper is published in PNAS! Congratulations!
- Mei won the Leon W. Cunningham Graduate Student Award! We are so proud of you!
- We are delighted to welcome Sam to the lab!
- We are delighted to welcome Walter and Lydia to the lab!
- Our cryo-EM structure of the cap-binding complex CBC in complex with mRNA export factor ALYREF is published in eLife!
- We celebrate Pate’s 5 year work anniversary!
- Our work on the high-order complex of SARNP and DDX39B(UAP56) in mRNP assembly is published in Cell Reports!
Biochemistry / Center for Structural Biology News
- New research points to lipids as possible culprit in age-related vision loss
- Osheroff Lab contributed data leading to FDA approval of treatment for gonorrhea
- Graduate School recognizes excellence among students, faculty at Honors Banquet
- Vanderbilt awarded up to $46M through ARPA-H to develop tools against alphaviruses
- Hodges lab sheds new light on mechanisms of gene regulatory divergence between species
- Pietenpol to receive American Society of Clinical Oncology’s highest honor
The Ren laboratory uses cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of mRNA nuclear export and how different viruses exploit this critical step of gene expression.