News and upcoming events in the Department of Pharmacology @vanderbiltU @VUBasicSciences
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On October 23, Vanderbilt Pharmacology hosted Pharmapalooza 2026, bringing together our first- and second-year graduate students to showcase their research and exchange ideas!
👏 A huge thank-you to our student presenters, organizers, and faculty for making this event possible!
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New paper from the lab in @CellReports! 🎉🐟
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Congratulations to Erin Calipari, PhD, on being named a 2026 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Finalist in Life Sciences!
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Congratulations to @hamm_heidi on receiving the ASBMB Herbert Tabor Research Award!
We’re thrilled to celebrate this well-deserved recognition!
#ASBMB #Biochemistry #MolecularBiology #ResearchExcellence
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Super excited that my PhD Student Melissa successfully passed her qualifying exam!! We’re so proud of you!👏🥳
Join the Vanderbilt Department of Pharmacology for our 2026 Fall Seminar Series!
Hear from leading researchers across pharmacology, neuroscience, and biomedical science throughout the semester.
📅 Tuesdays | ⏰ 4:00 PM
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🌟 Faculty Highlight! Meet one of the incredible people who helps make Vanderbilt Pharmacology such a great place to work, learn, and discover. Get to know them beyond their role! First up, Shan Meltzer PhD!⬇️
We’re now on LinkedIn! 🎉
Follow the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Department of Pharmacology to stay connected with our latest research, department news, accomplishments, and opportunities.
#Vanderbilt #VanderbiltUniversity #Pharmacology #BasicSciences🧪
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Towards visualization of mammalian synapse assembly.
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Stable excitatory-inhibitory synapse balance despite dynamic turnover | eLife
✨ What keeps neural circuits balanced as synapses constantly change? Researchers in the @LabSando developed new tools to visualize synaptic dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution, revealing how circuits maintain stability amid ongoing remodeling.
elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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🧠 How do billions of cells in the #brain communicate, adapt, and shape #behavior? That’s the question driving the research of Ege Kavalali, chair of @VandyPharm. Learn how Kavalali’s journey has shaped his groundbreaking work. 👉 news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/07/…
Congratulations @CigliolaLab! We are so excited and can’t wait to see what your future holds.
Thrilled to share that our lab has received its first NIH award through an NIGMS R35 MIRA! Grateful to @NIH, NIGMS, my lab members, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and @VandyPharm @VanderbiltU for making this possible. Looking forward to the next five years of discoveries!!
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🎉 Congratulations to Colleen Niswender and Jennifer Sucre on being named @VanderbiltU 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows! This prestigious recognition celebrates Vanderbilt's most promising recently tenured faculty.
Read more 👉 news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/…
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In recognition of #Alzheimer’s and #Brain Awareness Month, learn how researchers within the @VanderbiltU @VUBasicSciences are advancing discoveries across #neuroscience, #pharmacology, drug discovery, and more.
🔗 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/bas…
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Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 GPCR postdoc seminar series! Don't miss this opportunity to visit Nashville and share your work with the Vanderbilt Pharmacology Department! Follow the link below to apply:
medschool.vanderbilt.edu/pha…
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📢How do you choose the right cell type annotation tool for your spatial transcriptomics data? Excited to share this new collaborative work from @maiziezhoulab and my lab at @VUmedicine. We present a systematic benchmark of 20 state-of-the-art cell type annotation methods across various types of datasets. A thread 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
