About the CSB
The Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology (CSB) is part of a major transinstitutional
initiative started in the year 2000. The initiative was designed to significantly
upgrade the capabilities in Structural Biology at Vanderbilt by bringing additional
faculty and state-of-the-art instrumentation to campus. The CSB was developed
to promote the broad use of structural biology approaches in all life science
research and to provide a focal point that bridges medicine and biology to math,
chemistry, and physics.
The philosophy of the CSB at Vanderbilt is to integrate
the application of all techniques that can provide the atomic resolution
structure of biomacromolecules. The merging of applications
of the traditional high resolution structural biology disciplines, X-ray
Crystallography, NMR
Spectroscopy, and Computational Biology, along with
electron microscopy and fluorescence and EPR spectroscopies, is especially
unique. This strategy is being increasingly recognized as the necessary approach
to solve fundamental structural problems in medicine and biology. Establishing
an environment that provides
access to all available tools provides Vanderbilt
investigators with key competitive advantages. This philosophy is being successfully
applied in exciting ways in collaborations with investigators from a range
of Departments in both the College of Arts and Science and The School of Medicine.
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