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31 March 2026
Stowers News March 2026
A 2,000 mile journey to the Institute — by bike. Plus, join us as we ask 'What if?' in a new video series from the Institute.
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24 March 2026
Drawn to the invisible
From Germany to Harvard, from Seattle to Kansas City: One scientist's journey on the highway of discovery
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24 March 2026
Set Phasers to "Kill". No, Not Those Phasers.
From Science Magazine, Halfmann Lab research featured in commentary article.
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24 March 2026
Set Phasers to "Kill". No, Not Those Phasers.
From Science Magazine, Halfmann Lab research featured in commentary article.
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23 March 2026
A geneticist is studying pythons for clues about human health and longevity
From NPR's All Things Considered Podcast, Stowers Postdoc Jasmin Camacho discusses metabolism research
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20 March 2026
What the brain still has left to teach us
Understanding the brain means confronting some of biology’s toughest questions. Stowers scientists are exploring how memories last, how neurodegenerative disease begins, and how the brain’s circuitry takes shape.
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20 March 2026
What the brain still has left to teach us
Understanding the brain means confronting some of biology’s toughest questions. Stowers scientists are exploring how memories last, how neurodegenerative disease begins, and how the brain’s circuitry takes shape.
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20 March 2026
What the brain still has left to teach us
Understanding the brain means confronting some of biology’s toughest questions. Stowers scientists are exploring how memories last, how neurodegenerative disease begins, and how the brain’s circuitry takes shape.
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20 March 2026
What the brain still has left to teach us
Understanding the brain means confronting some of biology’s toughest questions. Stowers scientists are exploring how memories last, how neurodegenerative disease begins, and how the brain’s circuitry takes shape.
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19 March 2026
Curiosity, Cartoons, and Molecular Biology: Meet the postdoc exploring how proteins fold and function
Postdoc Profile: Inspired by childhood curiosity, Mansoor Hussain, Ph.D., is now building a career around understanding how cells work at their most fundamental level.
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18 March 2026
The things around us that remember it all differently
What does it mean to remember? From planarians and fruit flies to jellyfish, zebrafish, and even AI, explore a few of the unique ways memory appears across life and technology. Each of which can be found inside the Stowers Institute.
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16 March 2026
Stowers Institute marking advances in brain health study
KSHB41 highlights Si Lab research on brain health and memory during Brain Awareness Week
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16 March 2026
Stowers Institute marking advances in brain health study
KSHB41 highlights Si Lab research on brain health and memory during Brain Awareness Week
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12 March 2026
An education in evolution
For Stowers Graduate School alum Steffi Williams, Ph.D., teaching will always be a central part of her scientific future thanks to early opportunities to lead in the classroom.
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10 March 2026
A postdoc's quest to help sensory cells grow back
Postdoc Profile: Raman Kaushik joined the Piotrowski Lab to explore why zebrafish regenerate hair cells so well, and why mammals struggle.
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10 March 2026
A postdoc's quest to help sensory cells grow back
Postdoc Profile: Raman Kaushik joined the Piotrowski Lab to explore why zebrafish regenerate hair cells so well, and why mammals struggle.
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05 March 2026
Stowers Investigator Julia Zeitlinger, Ph.D., named Kansas City Business Journal 2026 NextGen Leaders
From the Kansas City Business Journal, Meet the 2026 NextGen Leaders
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03 March 2026
#BioBasics: What are hair cells?
These tiny sensory cells offer big implications for human health. Learn the biological basics of hair cells, how they allow us to hear and balance, and what makes zebrafish so important for regeneration research.
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03 March 2026
Hearing is more than meets the ear
How do our ears allow us to hear? How does music become part of our memory? Here are three ways Stowers science is revealing the mysteries and mechanisms of hearing.
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27 February 2026
Stowers Investigator tackles a mystery hiding on leaves — and the proteins behind it
After more than a decade at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, David Stern, Ph.D., moved his research program to the Stowers Institute. He arrived in early February and is now exploring how sap-feeding insects steer plant growth, the role of newly discovered proteins, and potential paths to next-gen pest control.
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26 February 2026
Untapped Potential: What we miss if we only study ourselves
Discovery often starts with the unexpected, and Shane Miller, the Stowers Institute's Director of Research Organisms, believes turning to nature is how we can turn big questions into breakthroughs.
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24 February 2026
Rewiring neural circuits by rewiring gene regulatory networks: M. Neşet Özel
From the Genetics Society of America, Investigator Neşet Özel named recipient of the 2026 Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture
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24 February 2026
Rewiring neural circuits by rewiring gene regulatory networks: M. Neşet Özel
From the Genetics Society of America, Investigator Neşet Özel named recipient of the 2026 Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture
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23 February 2026
Kansas City lab identifies key to chromosome variant linked to infertility
From KCTV5, researchers in the Gerton Lab have identified, for the first time, the precise fusion point of a chromosome variant that scientists say may contribute to infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss in some patients.
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