19 February 2021

Explainable AI for decoding genome biology

Opening the black box to uncover the rules of the genome’s regulatory code

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19 February 2021

The birth of BPNet—a true interdisciplinary collaboration

A behind-the-paper glimpse at how scientific discoveries come to life

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19 February 2021

The birth of BPNet—a true interdisciplinary collaboration

A behind-the-paper glimpse at how scientific discoveries come to life

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09 February 2021

Welcome Jeffrey!

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01 February 2021

Hawley Lab brings silkworms to Stowers

The silkworm is one of the most well-studied lepidopteran model systems worldwide, and a recent arrival in the Hawley Lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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14 January 2021

Welcome Tanushree!

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01 January 2021

Sánchez Alvarado named Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer for the Stowers Institute

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research announces that Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD, Investigator and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been named the Institute’s new Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer.

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01 January 2021

A niche for the eye

What if degenerative eye conditions could be detected and treated before vision is impaired? Recent findings from the Xie Lab point to the ciliary body as a key to unlocking this possibility.

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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10 December 2020

Announcing Stowers Research Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce a new postbaccalaureate research opportunity for diverse undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate education in basic biological sciences.

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02 December 2020

Predoc authors new research on protein complexes

GSSIMR Predoctoral Researcher Xingyu Liu and collaborators have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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30 November 2020

Doubling down on protein complex modeling

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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30 November 2020

Doubling down on protein complex modeling

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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17 November 2020

Small differences, big impact

Researchers in the Krumlauf Lab have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.

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17 November 2020

Small differences, big impact

Researchers in the Krumlauf Lab have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.

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29 October 2020

Former Summer Scholar is first author on new publication

Emily Wesley, a former GSSIMR Summer Scholar, is first author on a paper published in Chromosoma.

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14 October 2020

Live Q&A: Exploring Graduate Education at the Stowers Institute

Discover the unique benefits of the Ph.D. program at the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research at one of two live information sessions.

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06 October 2020

Rohner, Zanders recognized for research contributions

Two early-career Stowers investigators, Nicolas Rohner, PhD, and Sarah Zanders, PhD, were recently recognized for having a significant impact on their fields.

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