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Read the latest news from the Department of Molecular Biosciences.
Torii Awarded a Bateson Named Lectureship from John Innes Centre, UK
January 27, 2023 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences

McLellan Wins Major Awards from Welch Foundation, National Academy
January 23, 2023 • by Marc Airhart
Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at The University of Texas at Austin, has won two highly prestigious awards—the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award in...

How a Plant Stem Cell Commits to Its Fate and How Plant Growth Stays in Check
December 30, 2022 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences
A pair of discoveries from the Torii Lab were recently published in Nature Plants.

Dan Dickinson Paper Selected as Top 5 of the Year
December 21, 2022 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences
The paper from late 2021, titled 'Rapid extraction and kinetic analysis of protein complexes from single cells,' was selected for the honor by editors of Biophysical...

Dense Bacterial Populations Create Mutant Breeding Grounds for Antibiotic Resistance
November 17, 2022 • by Esther Robards-Forbes
New discovery could make it easier to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award
September 27, 2022 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences
Congratulations Johann Eberhart, Awarded a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award

Potential New Drug Target Could Boost Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs
September 15, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a large family of reverse transcriptases (RTs)—enzymes that are found in all organisms and...

William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow
September 12, 2022 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences
Congratulations Lulu Cambronne, William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow

New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment
August 25, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
The Long-Term Evolution Experiment began back when a dozen eggs cost 65 cents, the film Rain Man topped the box office and George Michael’s song...

Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
April 27, 2022 • by Staff Writer
