Collaborative work from the Brandt Eichman lab and @bogerlab reveals a structural and mechanistic basis for the self-resistance of microbial DNA glycosylases to their cognate natural products Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences go.nature.com/3lLm4zi

Thrilled to announce another preprint from our lab! Dr. Lillian found that RTEL1 and MCM10 help replication forks overcome topological stress during termination. Thanks also to Brandt Eichman Darren Heintzman Tata Kavlashvili

.Brandt Eichman lab & colleagues characterize the evolutionary relationship between #DNA repair enzymes & bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters that produce genotoxins (DNA damaging agents) in this new mBio publication. bit.ly/354X9Bz

Big shoutout to EvolutionVU and Andy Flick for highlighting our recent work involving bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters 🧫, genome mining for genotoxins ☠️, and specialized mechanisms of DNA repair 🧬🛠 Brandt Eichman RokasLab 🧬Jacob L Steenwyk 🔗: bit.ly/3jaaRqc

So proud of Noah Bradley in my lab and Jacob Steenwyk in the lab of my colleague and collaborator, Antonis Rokas, for winning this prestigious award. Congratulations and look forward to following your careers post Vanderbilt..

It’s not every day that you have 2 students join the lab at the same time and both earn NSF fellowships. So proud of these these super-stars! Congrats, Alyssa and Noah! WE K N O W

Wonderful conference! Thank you, David Rueda, Elena Conti, and James Berger for putting it together! David Rueda, conti_lab

Of all the nights to be in Madrid! Congratulations on the victory! ⚽️

Very honored. Thanks again to the Biochemical Society for the award and for sponsoring great meetings! Now let’s go get on that bus!

Latest HMCES/YedK story with David Cortez under review! Beautiful science by Katherine. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fantastic meeting! 🧬🧬🧬

Katherine's latest labor of love on HMCES/YedK is now online! If you are interested in abasic sites in DNA, this one's for you. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you a graduate student interested in genome maintenance? Attend our inaugural symposium this April!

Jonathan's work on a new family of AP endonucleases is out Nucleic Acids Res! Now we just need to figure out what the heck these things actually do. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

How is an RNA primer transferred to pol alpha for DNA extension? Why are RNA primers 7-10 nucleotides in length? Why are the final RNA-DNA primers 30 nucleotides? Our latest structures provide answers. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢 Register for the CSB Symposium 2024‼️ Speakers include Nozomi Ando (Ando Lab), James Fraser (James Fraser (A$AP J)), Jeanne Hardy (HardyLab), Andrej Sali (Andrej Sali lab) Register 👉 redcap.link/csb-symposium-… More info 👉 vanderbilt.edu/csb/symposium-…

Huge congrats to Leah for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

The Departments of Biological Sciences and Physics & Astronomy are recruiting faculty in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics. Single-molecule and advanced microscopy approaches encouraged. Please RT, share with potential candidates, and post in your departments!