{"id":1419,"date":"2019-01-07T19:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2019-01-07T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:16:57","slug":"caleigh-azumaya-receives-karpay-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2019\/01\/07\/caleigh-azumaya-receives-karpay-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleigh Azumaya receives Karpay Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Caleigh Azumaya for being named the 2019 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI am flattered to receive the Karpay award,\u201d Caleigh said.<\/p>\n

Caleigh joined the Nakagawa Lab in 2014 to learn more about glutamatergic signaling, biochemical and molecular biology and cryo-EM. Her main research interest focuses on the structure and function of membrane proteins using cryo-EM as a structural determination technique. During her tenure in the Nakagawa Lab, Caleigh collaborated with Dr. Julio Cordero-Morales at UTHSC and Dr. Erkan Karakas at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n

Outside the lab, Caleigh loves to cook and bake for friends, family and any event that presents itself, notably the CSB Monthly Gathering. She enjoys running and has completed two half marathons while at Vanderbilt. She also started \u201cThe Science Scholars Podcast\u201d with Katie Martin, a neuroscience graduate student at New York University. The weekly podcast features different topics in science that are relevant to being a graduate student, a woman in STEM or whatever topic comes up that week!<\/p>\n

The Karpay Award was established in 2010 to honor the memory of Dr. Anne Karpay<\/a>, who died after a four-year battle with breast cancer.\u00a0 It recognizes one senior graduate student who is a well-rounded colleague and scientist, who is collaborative and collegial and who has performed exceptional research in the field of structural biology.\u00a0 Karpay exemplified each characteristic and demonstrated a passion for science, for friendship and for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I didn\u2019t overlap with Dr. Karpay,\u201d said Caleigh, \u201cI’m friends with many previous Karpay Award winners. I am very grateful to be included in this group of awardees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caleigh presents \u201cGrad School: It\u2019s a TRP\u201d on Tuesday, January 22, in 1220 MRB3 as part of the MBTP\/CSB Seminar Series.\u00a0 The seminar begins at 12:20pm with a reception and award presentation to follow.<\/p>\n

The Karpay Award is funded entirely by donations to an endowment managed through the Development Office of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø School of Medicine.\u00a0 Donate to the fund through the Giving to Vanderbilt website with a credit or debit card<\/a> or via payroll deduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Caleigh Azumaya for being named the 2019 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology.\u00a0 \u201cI am flattered to receive the Karpay award,\u201d Caleigh said. Caleigh joined the Nakagawa Lab in 2014 to learn more about glutamatergic signaling, biochemical and molecular biology and cryo-EM. Her main research interest focuses on the structure and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}