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Dan Dickinson Awarded 2024 Society for Developmental Biology Elizabeth D. Hay Investigator Award

February 8, 2024 • by Staff Writer

Dan Dickinson headshot in circle with graphics in burnt orange

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David Nobles Awarded 2022 J. Roger Porter Award

January 9, 2024 • by Staff Writer

David Nobles headshot

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Jeffrey Chen Received Fellow of American Society of Plant Biologists Award

August 4, 2023 • by Staff Writer

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

Jeffrey Chen Headshot

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

July 7, 2023 • by Staff Writer

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

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Desiree Ledet Awarded 2023 CNS Staff Excellence Award

June 27, 2023 • by Staff Writer

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

Desiree and the dean of CNS

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Jeff Barrick and Ilya Finkelstein awarded CNS Spark Grant

May 8, 2023 • by Staff Writer

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Lulu Cambronne Awarded Natural Science Foundations Teaching Excellence Award

April 21, 2023 • by Staff Writer

Cambronne Award

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Torii Awarded a Bateson Named Lectureship from John Innes Centre, UK

January 27, 2023 • by Staff Writer

Keiko Torii Headshot

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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...

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

Research

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

Overlapping purple circles with orange highlights represent bacterial swarms. Dandelion-like seeds float away representing the mutant bacteria pushed to the edges of swarms.