Molecular Biosciences
@ut_mbs
We study molecular, microbial, cellular, developmental, chemical, plant, structural, systems & synthetic biology @TexasScience @UTAustin.
🎉 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
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
🎉 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
🏅Congrats to @UTAustin's Ken Keiler, one of the newest @AAAS fellows. Ken is a professor in @ut_mbs
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…
Congrats to Andreas Matouschek, who was named Interim Dean of the College of Natural Sciences by David Vanden Bout! Matouschek has served on the college’s core leadership team since 2020. More at txsci.net/InterimDean #TexasScience #UTAustin
Monkey flowers!! Awesome seminar by @colreeze here @ut_mbs @TexasScience! His title slides with beautiful bloomed, all photographed in ATX🤠🌺🌸🌼🌷🌹!! Thanks for the great talk!
Fabulous grad student @GraceHibshman @ut_mbs @TexasScience has solved the structure of FnCas9 with its scaRNA to show how it switches roles to transcriptional repression by bypassing nuclease activation. See her talk at #CRISPR2025! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Prof. Ilya Finkelstein @IlyaFinkelstein @TexasScience delivers his 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award lecture @TAMESTX. With Prof. Alan Lambowitz, who nominated him. Congratulations 🎉🏅!
Congratulations, Prof. Ilya Finkelstein @IlyaFinkelstein @ut_mbs @TexasScience for the 2025 Edith & Peter O’Donnell Awards🏅 for his innovative gene editing technologies and beyond! @KeikoUTorii joins @TAMESTX as a new member.
New research finds the activation of immune signaling can cross-regulate the otherwise highly specific stomatal development signaling if the availability of the shared downstream components becomes suboptimal. Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/3WPx6pv
A new study by biologists at @UTAustin & @TAMUBCBP, in collaboration with scientists in Japan, shows how plants balance growth and defense — offering insights for stronger, more resilient crops. @Stomata_Tweets @KeikoUTorii #TexasScience #PlantScience cns.utexas.edu/news/research/…
Congratulations to our very own, Jason McLellan for being inducted into the Class of 2025 National Inventors Hall of Fame!
🎉 Congratulations to the National Inventors Hall of Fame® Class of 2025! 🎉 Explore our website to learn more about this extraordinary group of creators, innovators and entrepreneurs. #Innovation #ClassOf2025 #HallOfFame bit.ly/2H9x0Si
Check out our new work @NatureComms by awesome grad student Rodrigo Fregoso Ocampo and former postdoc @jpkbravo @TexasScience @ut_mbs! Guide RNA folds into gnarly geometry to tether tiny protein domains together. Great to collaborate with @metagenomi! nature.com/articles/s4146…
Kudos to our 6 faculty on @Clarivate’s 2024 list of Highly Cited Researchers! • Feliciano Giustino • Xiaoqin “Elaine” Li • Allan MacDonald • Jason McLellan • Nancy Moran • Jonathan Sessler #HighlyCited2024 @McLellan_Lab @JLsessler @UTAustin
You want to run antibiotic MICs according to best-practice clinical microbiology protocols, but you are not sure how? Our article will walk you through it all! Great to work with @nikikaderabkova @AyeshaMahmood2 and a pleasure to publish in @npjAMR. rdcu.be/dZp04 #AMR
Great structures from former postdoctoral fellow @jpkbravo @TexasScience, now PI @ISTAustria! Awesome collaboration with @AstraZeneca on using structure guided engineering of PsCas9 to be highly active, while retaining specificity! nature.com/articles/s4146…
A potently #neutralizing and protective human #antibody with a unique antigenic footprint on #RSV and #hMPV fusion glycoproteins. Collaborative work with @McLellan_Lab @jjmousa @BonamiRachel @croweje @RHCarnahan, and others. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Torii Lab @TexasScience @ut_mbs @HHMINEWS , October 2024 🤘🌱🧬🧪. We unlock the secret of plant development!
Delighted to share that our preprint is now published in @PNASNews . Here we showed that flagellar motility is mutagenic. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @harsheylab
‼️Our new preprint‼️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲. In this short paper, we show that flagellar motility in E. coli leads to generation of more mutations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Questions/comments/criticisms are welcome.