{"id":64,"date":"2017-04-19T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:05:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the CSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><div class=\"soliloquy-outer-container\" data-soliloquy-loaded=\"0\"><div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-992\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade soliloquy-fade  soliloquy-theme-base\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:400px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-992\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-id-1004 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img id=\"soliloquy-image-1004\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/12.jpg\" alt=\"12\" data-soliloquy-src-mobile=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/12.jpg\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-2 soliloquy-id-1005 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img id=\"soliloquy-image-1005\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-2 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/13.jpg\" alt=\"13\" data-soliloquy-src-mobile=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/13.jpg\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-3 soliloquy-id-999 soliloquy-image-slide\" 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alt=\"14\" data-soliloquy-src-mobile=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/14.jpg\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-5 soliloquy-id-1007 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img id=\"soliloquy-image-1007\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-5 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15\" data-soliloquy-src-mobile=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/15.jpg\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-6 soliloquy-id-1001 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img id=\"soliloquy-image-1001\" class=\"soliloquy-image 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data-soliloquy-src-mobile=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/11.jpg\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><style type=\"text\/css\">#soliloquy-container-992{opacity:1}#soliloquy-container-992 li > .soliloquy-caption{display:none}#soliloquy-container-992 li:first-child > .soliloquy-caption{display:block}<\/style><div class=\"soliloquy-no-js\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;height:0;line-height:0;opacity:0;\"><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/12.jpg\" alt=\"12\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/13.jpg\" alt=\"13\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/7.jpg\" alt=\"7\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/14.jpg\" alt=\"14\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/9.jpg\" alt=\"9\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171510\/16.jpg\" alt=\"16\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171512\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/8.jpg\" alt=\"8\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171512\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/6.jpg\" alt=\"6\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171512\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/10.jpg\" alt=\"10\" \/><img class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2018\/09\/19171511\/11.jpg\" alt=\"11\" \/><\/div><\/noscript><\/div><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The 91黑料网 Center for Structural Biology (CSB) is part of a major trans-institutional initiative to significantly upgrade the capabilities in Structural Biology at 91黑料网 by bringing additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faculty<\/a> and state-of-the-art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instrumentation<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The philosophy of the CSB at 91黑料网 is to integrate the application of all techniques that can provide the atomic resolution structure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/facilities\/protein-characterization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biomacromolecules<\/a>. The merging of applications of the traditional high resolution structural biology disciplines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/facilities\/biomolecular-crystallography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-ray Crystallography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/facilities\/biomolecular-nmr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMR Spectroscopy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/facilities\/computational-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Computational Biology<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/csb.vanderbilt.edu\/access.php\">access<\/a> to all available tools provides 91黑料网 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 91黑料网 Center for Structural Biology (CSB) is part of a major trans-institutional initiative to significantly upgrade the capabilities in Structural Biology at 91黑料网 by bringing additional faculty and state-of-the-art instrumentation to campus. 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