Category: News

  • Webinar: Jonathan Irish at CYTO U

    In October 2017, Jonathan Irish presented a webinar entitled “From CyTOF to Cytotype: Single Cell Analysis Workflows for Complex Tissues & Tumors” for CYTO U, the online educational arm of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). This webinar is free for all (both ISAC members and non-members) at this URL: http://cytou.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=99389 Outline: Data…

  • Award: Editor’s Best of 2016-2017 Human Tissue and Tumor Mass Cytometry in Cytometry B

    The manuscript co-first authored by Nalin Leelatian and Deon Doxie describing the application of single cell mass cytometry to human tumors and tissue was chosen as the Cytometry B “Editor’s Best for 2016-2017.”  The original manuscript in Cytometry B was completed as part of a large collaboration and has since been described as a step-by-step protocol in Current…

  • 2017 SBTF Brain Tumor Grant & Race for Research

    Dr. Rebecca Ihrie and I received the Ann Faulkenberry Memorial Award from the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation (SBTF) and participated in the annual race for research this weekend.  The grant will provide two years of funding for our collaborative work applying quantitative single cell tools to study glioblastoma. Members of this project have received honors, including…

  • NIH Director Collins Highlights Madhur & Irish Lab Collaboration

    NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins highlighted in his blog the work of Dr. Meenakshi Madhur and our collaboration applying mass cytometry to study immune cell subsets in hypertension.  We’re excited to be part of this cutting edge project — congrats Meena! Dr. Madur’s group is a founding member of Vanderbilt’s Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence (MCCE).  

  • Award for Irish: 2017 ISAC Lecture

    Dr. Jonathan Irish was awarded a 2017 ISAC Lecture Award to support his participation in the 2017 CSAC cytometry meeting hosted in part by ISAC Marylou Ingram Scholar Dr. Thomas Kalina.

  • Published: Roussel et al., J Leuko Bio 2017

    Published: Roussel et al., J Leuko Bio 2017

    Congratulations Mikael Roussel and co-authors on the publication and the cover! Roussel M*, Ferrell PB, Greenplate AR, Lhomme F, Le Gallou S, Diggins KE, Johnson DB, Irish JM*. Mass cytometry deep phenotyping of human mononuclear phagocytes and myeloid-derived suppressor cells from human blood and bone marrow. Journal of Leukocyte Biology 2017 Aug;102(2):437-447. PMID: 28400539. PMCID…

  • Dr. Brent Ferrell now Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Congratulations to Irish lab alum Brent Ferrell on his promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine and for launching the Ferrell lab (supported by NIH/NHLBI K23 HL138291)!  Dr. Ferrell has a Ferrell lab webpage and an official faculty webpage now!

  • PhD Defense: Congratulations Dr. Wogsland!

    Cara E. Wogsland defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled Systems Biology of Mature Human B cells in Health and Illness at Vanderbilt University, USA.  Cara joined in May 2012 and defended in May 2017 and spent ~6 years in graduate school. Cara’s publications include a first author paper in Cytometry and co-authored papers in Journal of Immunology and Nature Methods.  Congratulations!

  • Video: Allison Greenplate at AAI StoryBooth

    May 16, 2017: short video of Allison Greenplate from the AAI 2017 StoryBooth:

  • Award: CQS High Impact Research Prize 2017

    Congratulations to Kirsten Diggins and co-authors on our Nature Methods 2017 paper on Marker Enrichment Modeling (MEM) being awarded the CQS High Impact Research Award for 2017!  And thank you to the Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS) for this award.