Postdoc Spotlight: Mona Mashayekhi, M.D., Ph.D.

VI4 Curation Team
October 21, 2020
Mona Mashayekhi, M.D., Ph.D. received her B.A. in Biology from University of Chicago. Mona did her Ph.D. and M.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the labs of John Koethe and Spyros Kalams. She is also a Clinical Instructor of medicine here at VUMC in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism.... Click the image on the left to continue reading.

Faculty Spotlight: John T. Wilson, Ph.D.

VI4 Curation Team
October 13, 2020
Dr. Wilson received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the Oregon State University Honors College, where he also trained in a number of academic and industrial research labs, including the Oregon Medical Laser Center and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. He went on to pursue his doctoral studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Department of Surgery at Emory University and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is now running his own lab as an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University.... Click Dr. Wilson's photo to continue reading.

Anna E. Patrick, MD, PhD

Anna
E.
Patrick, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Rheumatology
https://wag.app.vanderbilt.edu/PublicPage/Faculty/Details/46161
2141 Blakemore Ave
Room / Suite
1506
Nashville
Tennessee
37212

Dr. Patrick's work focuses on identifying and characterizing pathogenic molecular pathways in juvenile idiopathic arthritis and pediatric autoimmune disease. Her research program employs the study of rare monogenetic mutations associated with disease manifestations to discover novel pathways involved in autoimmunity. This strategy defines the relationship of these pathways to the broader disease population. She has elucidated the role of GATA3, a gene critical for T cell differentiation and function, in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.  Her research program involves studies in primary human cells using molecular biology, immunology, and next generation sequencing techniques. 

Publications on PubMed.gov

anna.e.patrick@vumc.org

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Autoimmune Disease, Autoinflammatory Disease, Immunology, Genetics

Spotlight: Schmitz Lab

September 16, 2020
Members of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation are working together to make extraordinary advances in health and medicine. VI4 is supporting efforts to improve testing, develop therapies, and create vaccines against COVID-19. At the frontline of this battle is the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Schmitz, the Medical Director of the VUMC Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory, or “MIDL" .... Click the image on the left to continue reading.

Faculty Spotlight: Brent Ferrell, M.D.

VI4 Curation Team
September 15, 2020
Brent Ferrell received his M.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He joined the Irish lab in 2012 as a Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Tinsley R. Harrison Society physician-scientist training program and became Instructor of Medicine in 2015. In 2017, Brent received NIH/NHLBI K23 HL138291, was promoted, and started his own lab as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center..... Click Dr. Ferrell's photo to continue reading.

Postdoc Spotlight: Todd Bartkowiak, PhD

VI4 Curation Team
August 25, 2020
Todd Bartkowiak, PhD received his BS in Biology from Sam Houston State University and his MS in Biomedical Science / Immunology from MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Science. Todd did his PhD research with Michael Curran, PhD and James Allison, PhD, at MD Anderson. He joined the Jonathan Irish and Rebecca Ihrie labs as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2018 to study brain tumor immunology. Click the image on the left to continue reading.

Graduate Student Spotlight: Benem-Orom Davids

VI4 Curation Team
August 18, 2020
Benem-Orom Davids is a graduate student at Meharry Medical College. He graduated from Morehouse College in 2011 with his B.S. in Biology, Bioinformatics, and Public Health. He joined the Dash Lab in 2014, where they study the mechanism of HIV-1 replication and pathogenesis... Click the image on the left to continue reading.

Cinque Soto, Ph.D.

Cinque
Soto, Ph.D.
Associate Director for the VI4 Program in Computational Microbiology and Immunology
Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics Vaccine Center

Dr. Soto received his PhD in molecular biophysics from Columbia University's School of Medicine. After receiving his PhD, Cinque went on to carry out postdoctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine where he developed computational methods for in silico modeling and design of helical transmembrane proteins. Following his postdoctoral studies, Cinque took a senior scientist position at SCHRODINGER, a computational software company, where he worked on the development of small-molecule docking methods for in silico drug design. In 2013, Cinque left the software industry to become co-head of the structural bioinformatics core section (SBIS) at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC). At the VRC, Cinque focused on analyzing antibody repertoires from next-generation sequencing (NGS). Cinque continues working on the development of bioinformatics methods for analyzing antibody and T cell receptor repertories at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center.

https://www.vumc.org/crowe-lab/person/cinque-soto-phd
cinque.soto@vanderbilt.edu
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