News
16 May 2025
#BioBasics: What is a ribosome?
Learn the biological basics of ribosomes—the molecular machines that build life-sustaining proteins—and why Stowers scientists are studying them.
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Associate Investigator Sue Jaspersen, PhD, has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to examine the assembly and regulation of yeast spindle poles. When yeast cells divide, spindles are required for the equal partitioning of genetic material in the form of chromosomes to the daughter cells.
Errors in the formation of spindles are associated with a loss or a gain in chromosome number, which can lead to an increased risk for cancer and birth defects. Jaspersen and her team will probe the mechanisms involved in the assembly of spindles.
By using innovative imaging techniques that provide unprecedented resolution combined with genetic and molecular methods, they hope to determine the mechanisms involved in the spindle pole body cycle of duplication and DNA replication.
News
16 May 2025
Learn the biological basics of ribosomes—the molecular machines that build life-sustaining proteins—and why Stowers scientists are studying them.
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Press Release
15 May 2025
Arvind Pillai, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, and Friederike Benning, Ph.D., from Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, will join the Institute in Fall 2025
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News
09 May 2025
"For me, joining the Stowers Institute was a chance for me and my team to follow any research idea we’re curious about."
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