News
Savannah Williams, a research assistant in MPB, has been featured on CNN.com promoting her involvement in a program aiming to increase minority participation in outdoor sports and physical activity.Click here to read the article. Savannah, who is also actively involved in encouraging under-represented minorities to pursue careers in science, will be speaking at the upcoming national conference “Breaking the Color Barrier in the Great American Outdoors” September 23-26th 2009 in Atlanta, GA.
The work of Shari Barkin and Joan Randall, members of the MPB affiliated Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism (VIOM; Roger Cone, director), was featured in the current issue of Vanderbilt Medicine. Click here to read the article.
Our chair, Roger Cone, was awarded the Donald F. Steiner Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research. Click here to read the Reporter article.
Anne Kenworthy was the co-organizer of the successful FASEB summer research conference entitled "Protein Lipidation, Signaling and Membrane Domains" held in Vermont July 26th-31st. Click here for a link to the schedule.
Post-doctoral fellow Mike Puglisi from the Hasty lab had an abstract selected for oral presentation at the 2009 Obesity Society Meeting in Washington D.C.
Congratulations to Mariena Silvestry of the Stewart Lab, Kelly Posey of the Niswender Lab and Zhibo An of the Cherrington lab on their successful PhD thesis defenses.
Maria Abreu, a graduate student in the Sealy Lab and Derek Claxton in the Mchaourab Lab recently received Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship Awards.
Jackie Corbin received an Outstanding Alumni Award from Tennessee Tech University. Click here to read the coverage. An interesting feature on his work, which contributed to the development of Viagra, from the Tennessee Tech site can also be found here.
