News: Graduate Students

Accolades

David Nobles Awarded 2022 J. Roger Porter Award

David Nobles headshot

Accolades

Jeffrey Chen Received Fellow of American Society of Plant Biologists Award

A Molecular Biosciences Faculty Member was awarded an American Society of Plant Biologists' award.

Jeffrey Chen Headshot

Accolades

Keiko Torii Awarded 2023 American Society of Plant Biologists' Stephen Hale Prize

A Molecular Biosciences Faculty Member was awarded an American Society of Plant Biologists' award.

Keiko Torii with a graphic circle, burnt orange and wave figures

Accolades

Desiree Ledet Awarded 2023 CNS Staff Excellence Award

A Molecular Biosciences department staff member was awarded the 2023 CNS Staff Excellence Award.

Desiree and the dean of CNS

Accolades

McLellan Wins Major Awards from Welch Foundation, National Academy

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...

Jason McLellan wearing a white lab coat standing in front of the cryo-electron microscope at The University of Texas at Austin.

Research

How a Plant Stem Cell Commits to Its Fate and How Plant Growth Stays in Check

A pair of discoveries from the Torii Lab were recently published in Nature Plants.

Three flowering plants of the same variety with small blossoms grow, though one is much shorter