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.
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…
Catherine and Justin both won presentation awards at the 2025 MMG/MID retreat a few weeks ago! 👏🏼 way to go van Hooligans!
Congratulations to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice-Sarpaning who successfully defended her PhD yesterday! We are so proud of you!
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.
Dxo1 does it again! We are proud of our work which has recently been accepted for publication in RNA!
rnajournal.cshlp.org/content…
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! 🥳
Damn, have to miss #RNADECAYSRC becuase @united canceled my flight three days in a row.
The van Hoof lab is a full house this summer! ☀️ Welcome to Yoksha, a microSURP undergraduate student, and Haden, a 1st year graduate student doing her first rotation with us!
Congrats to Lee-Ann who won a poster award at #RNA24!
The van Hooligans went to see the Rockets play last night! 🚀🏀 @ToyotaCenter Houston
The sixth paper in collaboration with Sean Johnson. Let's keep this streak going. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Proud of our latest work now on BioRxiv showing a third way to splice tRNAs that some fungi use.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
