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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.

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

Live Cell Imaging Reveals New Clues About Processes Linked to Birth Defects
April 26, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
