Department Of Cell And Developmental Biology

Monday’s weekly seminars are on a cutting-edge topics in Cell or Developmental Biology, as well as Stem Cell and Epithelial Biology. Read More

Investigators are exploring the molecular mechanisms behind the association of chronic inflammation and colon cancer. Read More

Inflammation synergizes with a cell’s intrinsic genetic program to promote the development of pancreatic cancer. Read More

Microtubules, part of the cell's cytoskeleton, regulate the secretion of insulin, suggesting that they may be a new target for treating diabetes. Read More

Megan Rasmussen, a Ph.D. student in Cell and Developmental Biology, has been selected as the 2019 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. Read More

Jennifer Sucre, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology at Vanderbilt University Medical School and Secondary Faculty Candidate for CDB presents “Modeling the Lung: Wnt Signaling in Lung Development and Disease”. Read More

Scott Baldwin and colleagues have discovered early signaling events during heart development, findings that could guide cell replacement therapies for heart disease. Read More

Basement membranes are important structural and functional components of tissues. New research provides insight into how they repair themselves. Read More

New findings may speed progress toward programming cells to rebuild damaged hearts more quickly. Read More

Qiangjun Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, will present "Molecular Mechanism of Neurotransmitter Release: Locked Until the Last Millisecond" on Tuesday, April 30, at 11 a.m. The talk will be in MRBIII, Room 3131. The event is hosted by the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Read More

Valentina Greco, professor of genetics at Yale University, will present "Principles of Tissue Dynamics and Function Captured by Live Imaging" on Monday, April 29, beginning at 12:15 p.m. The lectured will be in MRBIII, Room 1220. Read More

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Stephen Hann, whose research focused on understanding the regulation and function of the Myc oncogene, thought to be a driving factor in up to 70 percent of human cancers, died Feb. 27. He was 67. Read More

Monday’s weekly seminars are on a cutting-edge topics in cell or developmental biology, as well as stem cell and epithelial biology. Read More

Craig Brooks and colleagues have identified a mechanism of kidney fibrosis progression, suggesting a potential new angle for treating chronic kidney disease. Read More

Ken Lau and Guoqiang Gu have identified a critical biomarker in determining how a pancreatic progenitor cell will develop. Read More

New research led by Rebecca Cook demonstrates that an antiviral receptor called RIG-I has potent immunogenic and therapeutic effects in breast cancer. Read More

Mukhtar Ahmed and colleagues say the methods they employed to understand the mechanisms by which exocysts--protein complexes essential to life--function have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of cell dynamics. Read More

Qi Liu, PhD, Ken Lau, PhD, and colleagues have developed a new tool, sc-UniFrac, to quantify diverse cell types in single-cell studies. Read More

Loss of a protein that regulates mitochondrial function can greatly increase the risk of a heart attack, report Eric Gamazon, Sandra Zinkel and graduate students Christie Salisbury-Ruf and Clinton Bertram in new research. Read More

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States. Read More