We study molecular, microbial, cellular, developmental, chemical, plant, structural, systems & synthetic biology @TexasScience @UTAustin.
Austin, TX
Joined November 2019
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With 9 days remaining, the Department of Molecular Biosciences HornRaiser campaign has been given a fundraising challenge grant! A generous donor will provide up to $2,500 in matching funds which will get our fundraising past three fellowships with matching individual donations!
Support Longhorn career readiness! Your HornRaiser contribution at any amount creates summer scholarship opportunities for May Term 2026 students to gain critical biotech career experience. Help us reach our goal by December 3!!
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Thrilled to announce that the Savinov lab is now live at @UTAustin! Our lab @UT_MBS employs massively parallel experimental and AI methods to discover and design protein fragments as universal regulators of protein interactions in health and disease. savinovlab.com/ (1/n)
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Excited to announce that the Rikki Garner lab has opened its doors in beautiful Austin, TX! Our interdisciplinary lab @UTAustin @UT_MBS investigates tissue fluidity as a universal physical regulator of multicellular patterning in health and disease. rikkigarnerlab.org/ 1/n
We were thrilled to host Dr. Cassandra Extavour for the John Charles Sisson Memorial Lecture 🧬
Her talk on “Shape‑Shifting: Mechanical Mechanisms” sparked curiosity and great conversation!
🔗 Event details: molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/e…
#SissonLecture #MolecularBiology #UTAustin
Congratulations to @bondSSbond's lab member, Alex Dunmyre on becoming a finalist of the Empower your Pitch Competition with his pitch, “Treating the "Untreatable"! Click below to learn more!
gradcareer.utexas.edu/intern…
Thank you to everyone that attended our MBS Retreat! Congratulations to our MBS Retreat Award Winners🙌🥳🧪🥼!
Best Talk:
Nikol Kaderabkova
Juyeon Hong
Best Poster:
Gautam Pena
Brendon Quan
Maily Nguyễn
Swetha Iyer
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Global impact is built through bold ideas & trusted partnerships. This fall, Texas Global awarded grants to 17 faculty members, sparking collaboration in 15 countries. From clean water to virtual exchange, see how their work is shaping what’s next: utx.global/3ZVkTAV.
Congratulations to our very own, Hong Qiao🎉 for being awarded a grant from Texas Global!
Read more below:
global.utexas.edu/news/texas…
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🌟 The @SEC celebrates excellence in every form — congratulations to @UTAustin's Jason McLellan, recently named a @macfound Fellow!
It marks the fourth consecutive year an SEC faculty member has been awarded the "genius grant."
See how his discoveries are reshaping how scientists prevent and treat infectious diseases 🧫 bit.ly/4oHc1d3
#ItJustMeansMore x #HookEm
Support Longhorn career readiness! Your HornRaiser contribution at any amount creates summer scholarship opportunities for May Term 2026 students to gain critical biotech career experience. Help us reach our goal by December 3!!
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Congrats to Jason McLellan!
@McLellan_Lab @ut_mbs
UT Austin’s Jason McLellan, professor of molecular biosciences in @TexasScience, has been named a MacArthur Fellow, often called the “genius grant", by @macfound!
His groundbreaking research in structural biology continues to shape our understanding of how science can improve lives.
Join us in congratulating Jason McLellan on this extraordinary achievement!
🔗 Learn more: utex.as/46FXlEm
Thank you to everyone who came out to the ILSGP retreat this past weekend!
We extend our congratulations to the poster award winners:
🏆 Vanna Nguyen
🏆 Logan Persyn
Their outstanding work reflects the excellence of our program. #ILSGP #ResearchExcellence
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To kill bacteria, antibodies usually need helpers, but a new method yields antibodies that can kill bacteria directly by busting up their outer membranes. Read more: lcid.utexas.edu/news/researc…
ALT Two microscope images: one shows intact tube-shaped bacteria, the other shows a bacterium whose skin has burst, spilling its contents.
🌟Congratulations to @KeikoUTorii on receiving the IPGSA Silver Medal Award—the highest honor in phytohormone & peptide hormone research, awarded only once every 3 years! Her seminal work on peptide hormones continues to shape the field. 🌱🎉🏅
#PlantBiology #IPGSA
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Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells go.nature.com/4mgXR0C
🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Jason McLellan for winning the Changemakers Award! 🏆 His groundbreaking work in the fight against infectious diseases, including his contributions to the COVID-19 vaccine, is nothing short of inspiring. Well-deserved recognition! 🙌👏 #Changemaker
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Andy Ellington of @UT_MBS was a project participant in this new release, which also features research from the lab of @UTMSI’s Brett Baker.
How did life begin & why does it matter today? A new ASM report, supported by the @MooreFound, explores the origins of microbial life & how understanding it can help tackle some of humanity’s biggest questions around climate, biotech & more. Press release: asm.social/2sK
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🎉 Big congratulations to Kelly Alvarez, Administrative Manager in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, for receiving the CNS Staff Excellence Award! Her outstanding leadership and dedication continue to make a significant impact in our community. #StaffExcellence #UTMBS🧡🤘
What a day at the Trailblazers of Tomorrow Postdoc Symposium hosted by @UTMBS! 🔬🔥
These postdocs delivered cutting-edge science and big ideas. The future is in great hands! 🤘
📸 Swipe to see the faces behind the breakthroughs.
#TrailblazersSymposium #UTAustin #PostdocPower
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Congratulations to @TexasScience's Ken Keiler and @LiberalArtsUT's Chandra Muller and Arlene Miller Rosen on being named 2024 @aaas Fellows! Their groundbreaking work in molecular biosciences, sociology, and anthropology and environmental archaeology is pushing the frontiers of knowledge and making a lasting impact.
To learn more about this achievement, visit utex.as/4j73htp.
ALT Ken Keiler, Chandra Muller and Arlene Miller Rosen