A new NIH director is a step closer after the Senate health committee voted 15-6 this week to approve nominee Monica Bertagnolli; next full Senate will vote. (Earlier tweet mistakenly had 16-5.) Our story on her October 18 hearing. science.org/content/articl…

Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, has received the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association. Congratulations Dean Kaye! bit.ly/49cgRYp

Thank you to Dr. Prakash Kulkarni City of Hope and Dr. Ravi Salgia for two days of innovative science at the Colloquium on Phenotypic Plasticity, Cancer & Evolution! Fantastic meeting!

Houston, vote ya’ll!

Out today! Comment on lovely paper from the Mike Cox and Jim Keck labs uwisconsin Nina Bonde 1st author. Life, the genome and everything | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Beyond excited to share that I will be starting my lab at the Molecular Biology and Genetics department at Cornell University (Cornell MBG) in 2025! My lab will use genetics and experimental evolution to study meiosis and genome instability in pathogenic and model fungi.

Congratulations Dr. Yin Zhai! Won Best 2023 Student Paper in BCM Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at th2024 Department retreat! for his beautiful work in last year Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Way to go Yin!

A big RosenbergLabBCM welcome to Deauna Johnson! New PhD student Just joined the lab from Rice University program to work on evolution of antibiotic resistance and how to slow it. Welcome Deauna! Here’s to a great PhD!

Dr. Susan Rosenberg is a speaker in the Simpson Querrey Distinguished Lecturer series today. #DrugEvolution #cancer #DNA RosenbergLabBCM

Congratulations, Dr. S Kaochar! Salma Kaochar BCM Department of Medicine Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center BCMHouston #earlyCareerAward

Dr. Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD is one of TIME's 100 most influential people in #health in 2024. Congratulations! BCM_TropMed BCM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences BCM MD/PhD Program BCM Grad Diversity time.com/6968402/peter-…

What drives the generation of multiple #COVIDvariants? Dr. Christophe Herman et al found new answers. Nature Microbiology BCM Department of Molecular and Human Genetics blogs.bcm.edu/2024/05/07/fro… via BCMHouston

Targeted accurate RNA consensus sequencing (tARC-seq) reveals mechanisms of replication error affecting SARS-CoV-2 divergence | Nature Microbiology. #covid19 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Welcome to lab summer SMART student Chloe Kautt from Baylor U! Making a dent in antibiotic resistance one mechanism at a time! And thanks mentor BCMHouston DDMT’s own PhD candidate Ellen Thompson!💊🧬🧫

Congratulations and Bon Voyage YinZ BCM ! About to begin new job at Diversey South Carolina!!! Bon chance, Yin!🧬🧪

Congratulations organizers Amir Mitchel ⁦UMass Chan Medical School⁩ and Alexis Kaushansky ⁦Seattle Children's⁩ for a spectacular 2024 Drug Resistance GRC! Meeting continues to be a standout success!

Close to the eye of hurricane Beryl here. It’s loud, windy and wet!

Hurricane Beryl in progress! BCM is closed. This is a current view.

Hot off the press! We are proud to share our Roadmap on Cancer Persister Cells just published on Nature Reviews Cancer, a joint effort with outstanding scientists in the field to outline challenges and (exciting) future perspectives on Persisters: rdcu.be/dSJp4