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At the Stowers Institute, great minds are at work seeking to understand the function & behavior of living organisms, paving the way for future medical advances. Celebrating 25 years of discovery. #Stowers25
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialCan #AI predict the protein changes behind #Alzheimer's and #ALS? 🧬
Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., will receive ~$4.1M from @arpa-h.bsky.social to generate 10 billion+ measurements to train it, part of a $28.6M national effort led by @innovativegenomics.bsky.social.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social@stowersinstitute.bsky.social#WhatIf we didn’t have to age? What if we could prevent #cancer? What if nature holds the answers? 🔬
Introducing #WhatIf, a new Stowers Institute storytelling series exploring biology’s biggest questions and the scientists driven to answer them.
🎥 Watch our first three episodes: bit.ly/4v1D85W
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialTaking big questions to new heights! 👀
Our new #WhatIf banners are officially up around the neighborhood!
Go behind the scenes (and up in the air!) for a unique look at how they got there.
Discover the questions driving our scientists: bit.ly/4yzLx1T
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialThank you to Judith Frydman (@stanforduniversity.bsky.social) for joining us for a great #StowersSeminarSeries hosted by @bazzinilab.bsky.social.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialWe have some BIG questions. 👀
So naturally, we put one on the side of our parking garage.
Our #Whatlf series launches this week, stay tuned: bit.ly/4v1D85W
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialDiscover the newest tools transforming translational biology—from advanced ribosome profiling and proteomics to innovative imaging and functional genomics. 🧬
Join us at the 2026 Stowers Research Conference, #SRKC26.
Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialCongratulations to the 2026 laureates on this extraordinary achievement! 👏
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialThis #MicroscopyMonday shows the early formation of a small colony of corals from the Hawaiian Montipora capitata coral. Coral polyps have autofluorescence by the expression of the Green Fluorescent Protein. 🪸 (Gibson Lab)
@zebrafishrock.bsky.socialReposted by @stowersinstitute.bsky.socialThese programs have been very generous to #zebrafish researchers!
(Shoutout to @kkostova.bsky.social from @stowersinstitute.bsky.social in the photo!)
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialSpend your summer exploring science at Stowers! 🔬 Applications are now open for our 2027 Summer Scholars Program, offering undergraduate students eight weeks of hands-on research experience alongside our scientists. Learn more and apply below! ⬇️
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialThis week's #MicroscopyMonday is a side view of #zebrafish sensory organs, called neuromasts. These organs detect water flow based on the deflection of the protruding hair bundles (stereocilia). @daniomuench.bsky.social (Piotrowski
Lab)
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialThank you to Zhao Zhang (@duke-university.bsky.social) for joining us for a #StowersSeminarSeries talk, hosted by the @kkostova.bsky.social Lab!
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialOne hallmark of Stowers Research Conferences? Tandem Talks.
Mentors and mentees share the stage to present discoveries together, highlighting both groundbreaking science and the next generation of scientific leaders.
Hear from a previous attendee⬇️
Join us 10/21–23 at #SRCKC26: bit.ly/43Vb9so
@gallseeker.bsky.socialReposted by @stowersinstitute.bsky.social1/n New paper! In collaboration with Angela Gronenborn's lab, we solved the crystal structures of 2 bicycle proteins. They share some similarity to saposins, but are clearly not saposins. Instead, this stable backbone provides a platform for crazy diversity of form and surface chemistry.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialApplications are open for the @stowersgrad.bsky.social #PhD program! Apply below ⬇️
@stowersinstitute.bsky.socialHappy first day of fall! 🍂 It won’t be long until the Institute is surrounded by these colors again.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social(2/2) See how Stowers scientists combined #evolution, fieldwork and #AI to uncover the hidden structure of rapidly evolving aphid proteins. 🧬
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social(1/2)When #AI couldn’t solve this protein structure, evolution helped scientists show it how. The @gallseeker.bsky.social Lab combined fieldwork, structural #biology + AlphaFold2 to uncover a hidden blueprint shared by thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins.
New in @pnas.org: bit.ly/46E2XOx
