Events
FRONTIERS IN BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS
12:00 – 1:00 PM in Light Hall
2025
August 22, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Patrick Sung, University of Texas Health, San Antonio
September 19, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Piper Below, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
October 3, 206 Preston Research Building, Dr. Wilma Friedman, Rutgers University
October 17, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Eros Lazzerini Denchi, National Institutes of Health
October 31, 214 Light Hall, Dr. Blanton Tolbert, University of Pennsylvania
November 14, 214 Light Hall,The Richard Armstrong Lecture: Dr. Elizabeth Villa, Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego
December 5, 2:30 PM in 1220 MRBiii, Discovery Science Emerging Scholars Lecture: Dr. Lauren Hagler, Texas A&M University
2026
February 6, Dr. Linda Columbus, University of Virginia
February 13, Dr. Roy Parker, University of Colorado
March 6, Dr. Susan Ackerman, University of California, San Diego
March 20, The Richard Armstrong Lecture: Dr. Jennifer Heemstra, Washington University, St. Louis
April 3, Dr. Rachel Green, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
April 17, Dr. Emma Farley, University of California, San Diego
May 1, Dr. Dipanjan Chowdhury, Harvard University
Dissertation Defense
BIOCHEMISTRY DISCOVERY/FLEXNER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:00 PM, 208 Light Hall
The next scheduled Biochemistry Flexner Discovery Lecture is TBD. Please check back here for updates.
In recent years, the Department of Biochemistry has hosted such illustrious speakers as: Jennifer Doudna, Peter Agre, Karl Deisseroth, Joan Steitz, NIDA Director Nora Volkow, Nancy Andrews, and several Nobel Prize winners (Sydney Brenner, Tom Cech, Andrew Fire, Bengt Samuelsson, Kurt Wuthrich, Sir Paul Nurse, and in 2017 Eric Kandel). View a full listing of all Vanderbilt Flexner Discovery Lectures, past and present. Lectures are recorded and may be viewed online.
STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
Dec 6, BPSA Colloquium, Todd Blakely, Jr., and Mithun Karadi Giridhar, Ph.D., 202 LH at 12noon
Dec 13, No event – BPSA Colloquium rescheduled
Jan 10, BPSA Colloquium, Kevin McCarty (Guengerich lab), 214 LH at 12noon
Jan 24, BPSA Colloquium, Vincent Yao (Tansey lab), 214 LH at 12noon
Feb 7, BPSA Colloquium, Nicky Eleuteri (Tansey lab), 214 LH at 12noon
Feb 21, BPSA Colloquium, Sara Conwell (Dewar lab), 214 LH at 12noon
March 7, BPSA Colloquium, Emma Vontalge (Dewar lab), 214 LH at 12noon
March 14, BPSA Colloquium, Alexia Angelos (Ren lab) and Alexis Campbell (Blind lab), 214 LH at 12noon
March 21, BPSA Colloquium, Yelena Perevalova (Ascano lab) 214 LH at 12noon
April 18, BPSA Colloquium, Samika Joshi (Osheroff lab), 214 LH at 12noon
April 25, BPSA Colloquium, Sander Haigh (Cortez lab) and Jessica Day (Hodges lab), 214 LH at 12noon
May 2, BPSA Colloquium, Lilia Merbouche (Tansey lab), 214 LH at 12noon (Lecture by E. Villa will be rescheduled for Fall 2025, tbd)
May 9, BPSA Colloquium, Louis A. Otero (Folkmann lab) and Andrea Ascura (Ascano lab), 214 LH at 12noon
May 23, BPSA Colloquium, TBD, 214 LH at 12noon
STUDENT RETREAT 2024 PHOTOS
Thank you to all who attended our 2024 Biochemistry Department Retreat at the VU Student Life Center! We appreciate the planning contributions of Dr. Yi Ren and the BPSA representatives: Ali Angelos, Xiaoyu Lily Yu, Ronan Bracken, Jenny Tran, Gabriela Gonzalez Vasquez, Mithun Nag Karadi Giridhar, Vincent Yao, Sara Conwell, Tara Hickman, and Jordan Stacy.
