17 September 2026

🧬 Kostova Lab takes on Cold Spring Harbor!

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17 September 2026

🐅 Shao-Fu passes his qualifying exam!

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17 September 2026

Welcome Pritam and Laura!

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15 September 2026

Stowers Institute and Stanford University study reveals a marine worm rebuilds its cellular identity during metamorphosis

New single-cell atlas of the acorn worm shows that most tissues undergo a genome-wide transcriptional overhaul as larva becomes adult, providing new insights into how some organisms remake their bodies in ways humans can’t.

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15 September 2026

Pairing biology with physics, from the Stowers Institute and beyond

Augusto Ortega Granillo, Ph.D., reflects on his journey from the Stowers Graduate School to his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute

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15 September 2026

Pairing biology with physics, from the Stowers Institute and beyond

Augusto Ortega Granillo, Ph.D., reflects on his journey from the Stowers Graduate School to his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute

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10 September 2026

A cliff near the bottom of the hill

A new study from the Özel Lab offers new understanding and nuance to a long-standing view of development. To understand why, it helps to picture a classic idea in biology: a cell’s path as a marble rolling downhill.

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10 September 2026

A cliff near the bottom of the hill

A new study from the Özel Lab offers new understanding and nuance to a long-standing view of development. To understand why, it helps to picture a classic idea in biology: a cell’s path as a marble rolling downhill.

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10 September 2026

New Stowers Institute brain atlas shows neurons don’t inherit their identity — they build it in their first hours of life

The atlas of nearly a quarter million fly brain cells is the first to read both the genes and the DNA switches that control them across an entire developing brain region, providing new insights for "designing" neurons to treat neurological disease.

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10 September 2026

New Stowers Institute brain atlas shows neurons don’t inherit their identity — they build it in their first hours of life

The atlas of nearly a quarter million fly brain cells is the first to read both the genes and the DNA switches that control them across an entire developing brain region, providing new insights for "designing" neurons to treat neurological disease.

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08 September 2026

Stowers Institute partners with Google DeepMind and leading research institutions to help reveal the regulatory language of the human genome

Researchers provided biological expertise and feedback that helped guide the development of a new AI-powered resource released today. For the first time, scientists can explore a comprehensive map of more than 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes through a web browser, helping them more quickly prioritize and interpret variants that may influence biology and disease and lay groundwork for future treatments.

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08 September 2026

Stowers Institute partners with Google DeepMind and leading research institutions to help reveal the regulatory language of the human genome

Researchers provided biological expertise and feedback that helped guide the development of a new AI-powered resource released today. For the first time, scientists can explore a comprehensive map of more than 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes through a web browser, helping them more quickly prioritize and interpret variants that may influence biology and disease and lay groundwork for future treatments.

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28 August 2026

2026 Lab Coat Ceremony welcomes graduate students to their thesis labs

An annual tradition marks the start of scientific discovery for the 2025 entering class of Stowers Graduate School students.

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25 August 2026

A Summer of Discovery

Reflecting on the 2026 Stowers Summer Scholars Program

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25 August 2026

A Summer of Discovery

Reflecting on the 2026 Stowers Summer Scholars Program

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