Molecular Biosciences

We study molecular, microbial, cellular, developmental, chemical, plant, structural, systems & synthetic biology @TexasScience @UTAustin.

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

With 9 days remaining, the Department of Molecular Biosciences HornRaiser campaign has been given a fundraising challenge grant! A generous donor will provide up to $2,500 in matching funds which will get our fundraising past three fellowships with matching individual donations!

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Support Longhorn career readiness! Your HornRaiser contribution at any amount creates summer scholarship opportunities for May Term 2026 students to gain critical biotech career experience. Help us reach our goal by December 3!!
https://t.co/NvI5c9BSTU

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

We were thrilled to host Dr. Cassandra Extavour for the John Charles Sisson Memorial Lecture 🧬
Her talk on “Shape‑Shifting: Mechanical Mechanisms” sparked curiosity and great conversation!
🔗 Event details: https://t.co/PrxB8CZE8j
#SissonLecture #MolecularBiology #UTAustin

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Congratulations to @bondSSbond's lab member, Alex Dunmyre on becoming a finalist of the Empower your Pitch Competition with his pitch, “Treating the "Untreatable"! Click below to learn more!
https://t.co/ZREkYqmZga

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Thank you to everyone that attended our MBS Retreat! Congratulations to our MBS Retreat Award Winners🙌🥳🧪🥼!

Best Talk:
Nikol Kaderabkova
Juyeon Hong

Best Poster:
Gautam Pena
Brendon Quan
Maily Nguyễn
Swetha Iyer

[Texas Global @UTexasGlobal]

Global impact is built through bold ideas & trusted partnerships. This fall, Texas Global awarded grants to 17 faculty members, sparking collaboration in 15 countries. From clean water to virtual exchange, see how their work is shaping what’s next: https://t.co/SdF12O9t1A.

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Congratulations to our very own, Hong Qiao🎉 for being awarded a grant from Texas Global!

Read more below:
https://t.co/yxuiSDg11b

[SEC Academics @SECAcademics]

🌟 The @SEC celebrates excellence in every form — congratulations to @UTAustin's Jason McLellan, recently named a @macfound Fellow!

It marks the fourth consecutive year an SEC faculty member has been awarded the "genius grant."

See how his discoveries are reshaping how scientists prevent and treat infectious diseases 🧫 https://t.co/t1H4HJaZgd

#ItJustMeansMore x #HookEm

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Support Longhorn career readiness! Your HornRaiser contribution at any amount creates summer scholarship opportunities for May Term 2026 students to gain critical biotech career experience. Help us reach our goal by December 3!!
https://t.co/NvI5c9BSTU

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Congrats to Jason McLellan!

@McLellan_Lab @ut_mbs

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

Thank you to everyone who came out to the ILSGP retreat this past weekend!

We extend our congratulations to the poster award winners:
🏆 Vanna Nguyen
🏆 Logan Persyn
Their outstanding work reflects the excellence of our program. #ILSGP #ResearchExcellence

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

To kill bacteria, antibodies usually need helpers, but a new method yields antibodies that can kill bacteria directly by busting up their outer membranes. Read more: https://t.co/QwL4gxZGDM

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

🌟Congratulations to @KeikoUTorii on receiving the IPGSA Silver Medal Award—the highest honor in phytohormone & peptide hormone research, awarded only once every 3 years! Her seminal work on peptide hormones continues to shape the field. 🌱🎉🏅

#PlantBiology #IPGSA

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells https://t.co/TYrschY78z

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Jason McLellan for winning the Changemakers Award! 🏆 His groundbreaking work in the fight against infectious diseases, including his contributions to the COVID-19 vaccine, is nothing short of inspiring. Well-deserved recognition! 🙌👏 #Changemaker

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Andy Ellington of @UT_MBS was a project participant in this new release, which also features research from the lab of @UTMSI’s Brett Baker.

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

🎉 Big congratulations to Kelly Alvarez, Administrative Manager in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, for receiving the CNS Staff Excellence Award! Her outstanding leadership and dedication continue to make a significant impact in our community. #StaffExcellence #UTMBS🧡🤘

[Molecular Biosciences @ut_mbs]

What a day at the Trailblazers of Tomorrow Postdoc Symposium hosted by @UTMBS! 🔬🔥
These postdocs delivered cutting-edge science and big ideas. The future is in great hands! 🤘
📸 Swipe to see the faces behind the breakthroughs.
#TrailblazersSymposium #UTAustin #PostdocPower

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

🏅Congrats to @UTAustin's Ken Keiler, one of the newest @AAAS fellows. Ken is a professor in @ut_mbs

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Congrats to Andreas Matouschek, who was named Interim Dean of the College of Natural Sciences by David Vanden Bout! Matouschek has served on the college’s core leadership team since 2020.

More at https://t.co/12EpVKSIL5

#TexasScience #UTAustin

[Torii Lab @Stomata_Tweets]

Monkey flowers!! Awesome seminar by ⁦@colreeze⁩ here ⁦@ut_mbs⁩ ⁦@TexasScience⁩! His title slides with beautiful bloomed, all photographed in ATX🤠🌺🌸🌼🌷🌹!! Thanks for the great talk!