A Vibrant Community

The Stowers Institute attracts the best minds from all over the world. At last count, our scientists and students hailed from 30 different countries.

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Going it alone

The all-female lizard species Aspidoscelis tesselata successfully carries on without
any males.
Peter Baumann discovered how the ladies do it.

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Making memories last

When you hear “prion” you might think “mad cow disease.” Think again. Kausik Si’s lab found that a prion-like protein is an essential ingredient in storing long-term memories.

 

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Graduate School

We invite applications from curious, enthusiastic students who enjoy the company of critical thinkers and the rigors of a challenging curriculum.

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Finding your niche

Left to their own devices stem cells are lost. Instead, their fate is determined by cells around them, Ting Xie discovered.

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Coming full circle

Closing a line of inquiry opened over a decade ago, Ali Shilatifard and his team traced a key complex implicated in human leukemia all the way from yeast to fruitflies to humans.

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Unstable genomes

When the going gets tough, yeast cells readily acquire or loss whole chromosomes to enable rapid adaption.
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Meet Our Scientists

At every turn, fate conspired against Ron Yu's plan for the future. Not one to be discouraged, Yu transformed life’s random events into fruitful opportunities and a successful research career.

In the Spotlight

For Stowers researchers “flipping flies”, the tedious chore of moving hungry fruit flies into vials with fresh food, is a thing of the past.

WATCH A VIDEO of the recently installed fly-flipping robot in action.

Graduate School

The next generation of scientists is mentored by some of today's most pioneering and talented researchers.

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