(1/3) This Summer, we had the pleasure of hosting students from both the Nascent and TACC Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Programs. Our students' final presentations were a great success! We are very proud of all of our Summer mentees: Ani, Dylan, Jackie, and Taylor!

Congrats to Alyssa Ekdahl & @msrojano on their latest publication in Journal of Molecular Biology!! This exciting review covers the engineering of synthetic RNAs for sensing & regulating bacterial transcriptomes, and designing novel RNA switches for in vivo applications. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This has been an exciting week in the Contreras Lab for our undergraduate researchers! Congratulations are in order for our members: Lily Hoefner, Anna Stankes, and Ani Savk for all receiving competitive research fellowships! Your hard work does not go unnoticed! (1/3)

We are very excited to announce our latest pre-print led by Matsuri Rojano and Trevor Simmons that expands the targetome of CsrA by selectively remodeling sRNA-mRNA networks! #WhatStartsHere 🤘🏾

Come join our lab members from the Nucleate Austin Leadership Team (Tony Cordova & Trevor Simmons) at the "State of Biotech in Austin" panel, hosted here at UT Austin. This will be an exciting opportunity to learn about our growing, local biotech sector! #WhatStartsHere 🤘🏾

There's still time to sign-up for tonight's State of Biotech in Austin panel!! Our lab members and the leadership team of Nucleate Austin are looking forward to networking and connecting with you all! #WhatStartsHere 🤘🏾

We are very excited to announce our latest published article, led by Dr. Phil Sweet, which demonstrates the transcriptional sensitivity of prophages as biomarkers of bacterial exposure to ionizing radiation!! Read more below: #WhatStartsHere 🤘🏾 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

As we approach the end of academic year, we want to recognize the undergraduate students that will be leaving us and graduating from UT Austin. We are very thankful for their contributions to our group's research and culture!!!

Check out the preprint of our recent work led by @SeanEngels & Pratik Kamat in collaboration with Jude Phillip Lab! We explore the biomolecular & morphological effects of PM, and begin to show that cell morphology can encode susceptibility to air pollution. #WhatStartsHere🤘🏾

Check out our latest work in Annual Reviews where we discuss native protein and RNA sensors of oxidative stress, and cover future directions for engineering RNAs as sensors of oxidative stress. #SynBio #AnnualReviews #WhatStartsHere 🤘🏾 doi.org/10.1146/annure…

We are very excited about our Texas Engineering featured news article covering our work on our robust approach to gauge the effect of environmental stress on lung cell health!! A big thank you to the Hypothesis Fund for funding this important work. cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive/9…

We are excited to announce our latest paper co-authored by Matsuri Rojano & Trevor Simmons on expanding the CsrA targetome! We found that CsrA selectively modulates sRNA-mRNA regulatory outcomes, impacting downstream network regulation. #whatstartshere 🤘🏾doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.…

View our latest work in Biochemical Society Transactions, led by Katie Taylor & Lucas Miller, where we discuss the current understanding of 8-oxo-G, protein partners, and recognition mechanisms of this exciting RNA modification! #WhatStartsHere🤘🏾rb.gy/wm377m

Geometric changes in the nucleoids of Deinococcus radiodurans reveal involvement of new proteins in recovery from ionizing radiation. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_molbio

Incredibly excited for my 1st(!) first-author manuscript to be out on bioRxiv. We are very excited to share this work, & look forward to seeing it published. Big thanks to the Vernita Gordon & Jude Phillip Labs for their invaluable contributions. #whatstartshere 🤘🏾

We've been working on a cool project with Contreras Group at UT . Thank you AFOSR for supporting this! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are delighted to announce our publication in AppEnvMicro journal, led by Tony Cordova in collaboration with the Vernita Gordon Lab. Together, we developed a new pipeline to quantitate geometric properties of bacterial cells & nucleoids. #whatstartshere 🤘🏾 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Very excited to have my first, 1st Author publication, officially published! Big thanks to the Vernita Gordon Lab for their invaluable contributions! This has been a very exciting journey, and I am eagerly looking forward to sharing my upcoming projects! #whatstartshere 🤘🏽

If you happen to find yourself at ASM Microbe 2024, come by posters MBP-606 (Tony Cordova) and MBP-643 (Alex Lukasiewicz) during today's sessions to learn more about the amazing work occurring in the Contreras Group at UT! #ASM #ASMmicrobe #whatstartshere 🤘🏾

We published a paper with Contreras Group at UT Tony Cordova on Deinococcus radiodurans. It's our first paper ever on this organism and I think possibly our first paper where we got to spend a lot of time thinking about circles and ellipses. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…