  {"id":4036,"date":"2022-11-18T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:23:17","slug":"ivette-perez-wins-karpay-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2022\/11\/18\/ivette-perez-wins-karpay-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivette Perez wins Karpay Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4037\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4037\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2022\/11\/18\/ivette-perez-wins-karpay-award\/ivetteperez2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1890,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1557524581&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IvettePerez2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ivette Perez, Iverson Lab&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-222x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-756x1024.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4037\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-222x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-222x300.jpeg 222w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-756x1024.jpeg 756w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-768x1040.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-1134x1536.jpeg 1134w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-1512x2048.jpeg 1512w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/11\/19203833\/IvettePerez2-scaled.jpeg 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivette Perez, Iverson Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to Ivette Perez, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/tina-iverson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iverson Lab<\/a>, for being named the 2023 recipient of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/karpay-award\/\">The Karpay Award in Structural Biology<\/a>. \u201cI am honored to have been selected for this award,\u201d Ivette said.<\/p>\n<p>Ivette joined the Iverson lab in the spring 2019, but she was first exposed to various biophysical techniques and structural biology as an undergraduate in the lab of Carrie Partch at UC Santa Cruz, where she was also an ISMD Scholar. During her time in the Partch lab, she fell in love with proteins and their ability to regulate vital life processes while studying the regulation of circadian rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Ivette&#8217;s current research focuses on the structural basis of arrestin mediated kinase activation and how this leads to signal initiation and amplification. She uses various biochemical assays and cell-based assays to study arrestin function. She also uses x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM to determine arrestin-kinase complex structures. As a member of the Iverson lab, Ivette maintains research collaborations with the Guverich and Sanders labs at Vanderbilt as well as the Dalby lab at UT Austin. She is currently completing an internship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Lilly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the lab, Ivette loves to hike, dance, work out and spend time with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Ivette presents <em>Arrestin Development, next episode?<\/em> on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBTP\/CSB Seminar Series<\/a>. The seminar begins at 12:20pm in 1220 MRB3 with the award presentation to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to be this year\u2019s Karpay winner\u201d said Ivette. \u201cIt\u2019s truly an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Karpay Award was established in 2010 to honor the memory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/karpay-award\/anne-karpay-ph-d\/\">Dr. Anne Karpay<\/a>, who died after a four-year battle with breast cancer. It is funded entirely by donations to an endowment managed through the Development Office of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø School of Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.alumniq.com\/giving\/to\/KarpayAwardinStructuralBiology?appeal=HFW13\">Donate to the fund online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ivette Perez, of the Iverson Lab, for being named the 2023 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. \u201cI am honored to have been selected for this award,\u201d Ivette said. 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