@vanHooligans
Joined February 2023
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Next week the van Hoof lab will be moving to the Molecular Genetics Department at OSU. After 23 years in Houston, I am excited about the new opportunities, thankful for the past opportunities at UTHSC-Houston, proud of all the trainees trained, and sad to leave many good friends.
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Ever wonder why tRNAs have introns? Our brand new PNAS paper suggests it may be because a tRNA methylase needs the intron in tyrosine tRNA. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

The highly conserved intron of tyrosine tRNA is critical for m1A58 modification and controls the...

tRNA introns are a universally conserved feature of eukaryotic genomes, but the reason for their conservation has remained obscure. We have previou...

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Catherine and Justin both won presentation awards at the 2025 MMG/MID retreat a few weeks ago! 👏🏼 way to go van Hooligans!
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice Sarpaning (PI: Ambro van Hoof) and Dr. Chioma Odo (PI: Samuel Shelburne) on their graduation yesterday. MID is proud of these young scientists👏! @MDA_UTHGrad @vanHooligans
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Congratulations to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice-Sarpaning who successfully defended her PhD yesterday! We are so proud of you!
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There’s no door decorating contest; we just like to be festive 🎅🏻🎄 last week before the holiday break! ✨
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A vanHooligan Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🏻
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Congratulations to PhD student and vanHooligan Sayef on winning an award for the great talk he gave at the Texas branch of @ASMicrobiology and to the three other @MIDatGSBS students that won an award for their poster presentations.
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MicroBOOology day!
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The grad students are getting crafty for the MID MicroBOOology door decorating contest! ✂️🎨🖌️
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The van Hooligans had a great time at #renfest! Texas graced us with some beautiful weather ☀️
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Senior grad student Lee-Ann painted this pumpkin for outside our lab! 🎃 #spookyseason
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Dxo1 does it again! We are proud of our work which has recently been accepted for publication in RNA! rnajournal.cshlp.org/content…
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Our summer microSURP student Yoksha Muruganantham liked us so much that she decided to stay in the lab for her entire sophomore year at Rice! 🥳
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The @RNASociety Awards deadline has been extended to October 7th so please nominate or apply today! rnasociety.org/awards
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I am very excited to announce the Pountain Lab is hiring a postoc in bacterial single cell gene expression and pathogenesis! Please retweet to put the word out. See here for the details: uth.edu/postdocs/open-postdo…

Open Postdoc Positions

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On my way to #RNADECAYSRC. Looking forward to some great science!
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The great science will have to wait a day. Only made it half way there on the first try.
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Damn, have to miss #RNADECAYSRC becuase @united canceled my flight three days in a row.
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