Congratulations to Drs. Simone Herzberg and Alex Silver on successfully defending their dissertations last month!

Congratulations to Natalie Bennett, PhD (G5), Riley Bergman (G4), and Sarah Reed (G3) who were among the 100 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood this year!

Congratulations to Matthew Loberg (G4) for receiving the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Distinguished Medical Student Award which is given to a medical student, in any year of training, for outstanding achievement, aptitude, or interest in pathology!

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Garden update: my grapevine has grapes! 🍇 …and eggs! 🪺 #gardening

It’s happening! Excited to share my findings next week from my work in the Rhoades lab 🎉 Rhoades Research Lab

Plant your cucumbers next to your corn so you don’t have find a trellis. If you do need a trellis, consider repurposing your broken bamboo slats from your practice swords. Follow for more #gardenhacks 😬

Congratulations to our 2024 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduating class, click here to see their awards from class day and where everyone is headed next! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/2024/05/3…

Cannot express how excited I am that our paper is finally out in real life! Macrophages contribute to the obesity paradox. We found PD-1 acts directly on macrophages to alter metabolism and suppress their anti-tumor function in obesity associated cancers. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Decompressing from the week with some good old PCR. Happy last Friday before July 1st. 🔬

Lab Summer pot-luck & BIG going away thanks you, congratulations, & celebration for Kelsey Voss Andrew Patterson Melissa M Wolf Madelyn Landis Erin Jennings, PhD, MLS as they move on to bigger things!

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Macrophages dig into the obesity paradox in cancer dlvr.it/TC2RlV

🚨new pub!🚨 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A new Science #Immunology study reports an overlap in #immunometabolism mechanisms underlying #Tcell function in mice. Jeff Rathmell Andrew Patterson 📄: scim.ag/85H

Congratulations to Vanderbilt Surg Res Chief residents Drs. Eric Mace and Josh Thompson! Excited both of you are staying VUMC Surgical Sciences for your acute care surgery/critical care fellowship! Vanderbilt Trauma

The moon is looking like an atypical lymphocyte with a round nucleus, scant cytoplasm, heterochromatin, and inconspicuous nucleoli tonight… 🌕 #hemepath #butisitclonal?