We have exciting news to share: the one-and-only Liz Kellogg is joining our department as Associate Member this summer!!! We look forward to welcoming Liz Kellogg ❄️🔬 and her awesome team — Jeff Swan Jung-Un Park Vinh T Richard & James Borovilas— to Memphis.

The mighty @computingCaitie!

Amazing second session with deMarcoLab and Xueming Li in the SIG Sample preparation techniques at #ACA2023!

Great SIG on sample preparation technology or more specifically Advanced topics on cool stuff at #ACA2023. Awesome speakers Natalia de Val, Wooyoung Choi, Shengjiee Feng, deMarcoLab and Xueming Li! Thanks for a great session and to a great co-chair Jianhua Zhao!

Check out our new work in Science Magazine. Heroic collaboration between Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 and my fabulous postdoc Jack Bravo NaturalSciences @ UT! Type III-B CRISPR-Cas cascade of proteolytic cleavages | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

7/7 More details in our paper. Congrats to all authors! Jurre Steens, Jack Bravo, Caglar Yildiz, Afonso Amieiro, Stephan Köstlbacher, Stijn Prinsen, Ane Sanz Andres, @copa_bio, Andreas Bardis, Arjan Barendregt, Scheltema lab @[email protected], Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺, John van der Oost, David Taylor, Raymond Staals

And Jack Bravo NaturalSciences @ UT made a spinning movie of the structure.

Check out our new work by fabulous grad student Rodrigo NaturalSciences @ UT Molecular Biosciences! Guide RNA folds into gnarly geometry to tether tiny protein domains together. Fun collaboration with Metagenomi! DNA targeting by compact Cas9d and its resurrected ancestor biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Again, this year for #UT40for40, proud to support First Generation college students like myself NaturalSciences @ UT and across UT Austin. No doubt that they will shine so much brighter than me! 40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/777… #UT40for40

Great work by former grad student @EvanASchwartz and postdoc Jack Bravo NaturalSciences @ UT Molecular Biosciences and Mohd Ahsan Giulia Palermo in Nature Communications! Couldn’t happen without long time collaborators Rob Fagerlund and Peter Fineran University of Otago. link.springer.com/10.1038/s41467…

Great work by super star grad students and postdoc/new PI Grace Hibshman, Matt Hooper, and Jack Bravo Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT. Colab with Johnson lab and finally the other CRISPR guy Ilya Finkelstein! Lots to see. My favorite: the SpRYmer. link.springer.com/10.1038/s41467…

Fantastic summary from NaturalSciences @ UT on our work led by Jack Bravo Molecular Biosciences published in nature! cns.utexas.edu/news/research/…

Excellent preprint from @l_loeff in @MartinJinek lab on the same system with additional insights!!!

Fantastic work by postdoc Isabel S Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT on cas12a showing a reset between cleavage events out in Molecular Cell! Another great collaboration with Giulia Palermo and grad student Aakash Saha. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great structures from former postdoctoral fellow Jack Bravo NaturalSciences @ UT, now PI ISTAustria! Awesome collaboration with AstraZeneca on using structure guided engineering of PsCas9 to be highly active, while retaining specificity! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Exciting work by fantastic postdoc Kaitlyn Kiernan Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT visualizing 25 states of SpCas9! Pulled out a product release state and provides insight extremely low turnover of SpCas9 with a canonical guide RNA. Thanks to Jack Bravo for image that I could grab quick!

Check out our new work Nature Communications by awesome grad student Rodrigo Fregoso Ocampo and former postdoc Jack Bravo NaturalSciences @ UT Molecular Biosciences! Guide RNA folds into gnarly geometry to tether tiny protein domains together. Great to collaborate with Metagenomi! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fabulous grad student Grace Hibshman Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT has solved the structure of FnCas9 with its scaRNA to show how it switches roles to transcriptional repression by bypassing nuclease activation. See her talk at #CRISPR2025! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…