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Dense Bacterial Populations Create Mutant Breeding Grounds for Antibiotic Resistance

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.

Accolades

Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition

A team of 12 undergraduate students at UT Austin received top awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, including placing in the top 10...

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Announcements

Texas Biologics to Bolster Research in Therapeutics

A cross-disciplinary effort made up of world-renowned faculty members and researchers working across all areas of therapeutics has launched at UT Austin.

A researcher in lab coat, goggles and gloves pipettes in a web lab

Accolades

2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations Johann Eberhart, Awarded a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award

Johann Eberhart

Research

New Research Advances Fight Against Human Metapneumovirus

New research could pave the way for a vaccine for a common respiratory virus. 

Graphic showing how antibodies attack viral proteins

Research

Potential New Drug Target Could Boost Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs

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...

This image is a superposition of two enzymes: G2L4 and GsI-IIC RT.

Accolades

William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow

Congratulations Lulu Cambronne, William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow

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Research

New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment

After 34 years and 75,000 generations of bacterial evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment moved to the University of Texas at Austin in summer 2022.

Jeff Barrick examines a dish of E. coli

Features

Bringing Developmental Biology to South Texas

Over the last two decades, John Wallingford has taught developmental biology short courses to students at two of the country's most highly prestigious and competitive biological research institutions...

Two undergraduate students sit on a couch next to developmental biologist John Wallingford

Research

Scientists Hijack Bacteria To Ease Drug Manufacturing

Scientists have created biosensors from bacteria that will help speed up analysis of drug manufacturing, harnessing microbes to help detect therapeutic molecules.

E. Coli bacteria