05 April 2021

New year brings new grant announcements for Stowers researchers

Several Stowers researchers have received funding notifications during the first quarter of 2021, including both investigators and trainees.

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31 March 2021

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado appointed the Priscilla Wood Neaves Endowed Chair in the Biomedical Sciences

Stowers President Emeritus William B. Neaves, PhD, offers commentary on the appointment of Alejandro Sánchez Alvarada as Priscilla Wood Neaves Endowed Chair in the Biomedical Sciences at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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30 March 2021

Penny Spence named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Penny Spence has been named the new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Stowers Group of Companies, including not only the Institute, but also BioMed Valley Discoveries and Stowers Resource Management.

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29 March 2021

Decoding the sense of smell

Neural code determines instinctual responses to attractive or aversive odors

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24 March 2021

American Century hosts Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado in COVID-19 webcast series

American Century Investments talks with Stowers Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado in a COVID-19 webcast series focusing on the science behind the Sars-CoV-2 virus, variants of the virus, and vaccine development.

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19 February 2021

GSSIMR alumni awarded fellowships

Two former GSSIMR predoctoral researchers, Melvin Noé González and María Bravo Núñez, received prestigious fellowships this month.

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19 February 2021

Explainable AI for decoding genome biology

Opening the black box to uncover the rules of the genome’s regulatory code

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19 February 2021

Explainable AI for decoding genome biology

Opening the black box to uncover the rules of the genome’s regulatory code

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19 February 2021

The birth of BPNet—a true interdisciplinary collaboration

A behind-the-paper glimpse at how scientific discoveries come to life

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19 February 2021

The birth of BPNet—a true interdisciplinary collaboration

A behind-the-paper glimpse at how scientific discoveries come to life

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09 February 2021

Welcome Jeffrey!

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01 February 2021

Hawley Lab brings silkworms to Stowers

The silkworm is one of the most well-studied lepidopteran model systems worldwide, and a recent arrival in the Hawley Lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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14 January 2021

Welcome Tanushree!

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01 January 2021

Sánchez Alvarado named Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer for the Stowers Institute

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research announces that Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD, Investigator and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been named the Institute’s new Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer.

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01 January 2021

A niche for the eye

What if degenerative eye conditions could be detected and treated before vision is impaired? Recent findings from the Xie Lab point to the ciliary body as a key to unlocking this possibility.

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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10 December 2020

Announcing Stowers Research Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce a new postbaccalaureate research opportunity for diverse undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate education in basic biological sciences.

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02 December 2020

Predoc authors new research on protein complexes

GSSIMR Predoctoral Researcher Xingyu Liu and collaborators have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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