🔬 Happening this week at the Institute! We're welcoming scientists to #KansasCity for the #SRCKC26 on Ribosome Heterogeneity and Translational Control! Three days of scientific exchange, new ideas, and opportunities for collaboration. 🧬

This week's #MicroscopyMonday shows digital collage of bacteroids, a special form of bacteria that lives inside alfalfa roots. 🔬🌱 @ErikaPinto96 (@SivaSankariIMS Lab)

⏰ Tomorrow is the last day to register! Don't miss your chance to join researchers from around the world at the 2026 Stowers Research Conference: Ribosome Heterogeneity and Translational Control from Cells to Organisms! 🔬 Join us October 21–23 in Kansas City for cutting-edge science, engaging discussions, networking, and opportunities for collaboration. #SRCKC26 📅 Registration deadline: October 16 🔗 Register today: bit.ly/43Vb9so

NEW research from the @Gibson_Lab 🔬 Cell division does more than make new cells—it helps reshape tissues. Led by first author @SPRamanathan, researchers discovered how dividing cells trigger their neighbors to rearrange, helping growing tissues stay organized. Published in @CurrentBiology: bit.ly/3UkC1Rk

A little Latin jazz to end the week! 🎶🎺 We welcomed the @kclatinjazz to the Institute on Friday for another lively performance in our Experiments in Sound concert series!

At the Stowers Graduate School, students have the freedom to explore ambitious scientific questions and build a foundation for what comes next. Hear how that experience helped shape alum Augusto Ortega Granillo’s scientific journey. 👇

#WhatIf we didn't have to age? 🧬 It's a big question driving Investigator Randal Halfmann's #research at the Stowers Institute, where he's studying how changes in proteins contribute to diseases associated with #aging, including #Alzherimers, Parkinson’s, #ALS, and Huntington's disease. Today, Halfmann joins a national research collaboration supported by up to $28.6 million in funding. The project brings together scientists from leading institutions across the country to train #AI to better understand and predict protein changes linked to #neurodegenerative diseases. A deep learning model that can decode the language of disordered proteins in such diseases needs rigorously obtained data at scale — something that has yet to exist. The Halfmann Lab will provide what has been missing: more than 10 billion measurements of aggregation, taken one living cell at a time, across 50,000 proteins. The goal? To better understand what goes wrong in these diseases and help lay the groundwork for future treatments. Go behind the science and meet the curiosity-driven researcher in Episode 1 of our #WhatIf storytelling series. Learn more about Randal’s award at Stowers.org 🎥 Watch Randal's full story: bit.ly/3PMbkm8

Can #AI predict the protein changes behind #Alzheimers and #ALS? 🧬 Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D. (@HalfmannLab), will receive ~$4.1M from @ARPA_H to help find out, as part of a $28.6M national effort led by @UCBerkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute. 🔗 bit.ly/4dwI4Zw

We're proud that Stowers Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., and his lab are part of this exciting #research initiative! 🧬 Through the ARPA-H-funded NATIVE-ID collaboration, the @HalfmannLab will help advance our understanding of harmful protein aggregation linked to #neurodegenerative diseases. 🧠 Learn more from @ARPA_H below⬇️

#WhatIf we didn’t have to age? What if we don’t have to get #cancer? What if #nature holds the answers? 🔬 Introducing #WhatIf, a new storytelling series from the Stowers Institute exploring biology’s biggest questions about life and human #health. Meet the scientists whose curiosity drives them to ask these questions and follow wherever the #biology leads. 🎥 Our first three episodes are here! Watch now and discover what happens when we dare to ask, “What if...?” 🔗 Explore the series: bit.ly/4v1D85W

Taking big questions to new heights! 👀 Our new #WhatIf banners are officially up around the neighborhood! Go behind the scenes (and up in the air!) for a unique look at how they got there. Discover the questions driving our scientists: bit.ly/4yzLx1T

Thank you to Judith Frydman (@Stanford) for joining us for a great #StowersSeminarSeries hosted by @BazziniLab.

We have some BIG questions. 👀 So naturally, we put one on the side of our parking garage. Our #Whatlf series launches this week, stay tuned: bit.ly/4v1D85W

Discover the newest tools transforming translational biology—from advanced ribosome profiling and proteomics to innovative imaging and functional genomics. 🧬 Join us at the 2026 Stowers Research Conference, #SRKC26. Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so

Congratulations to this year’s laureates on this remarkable recognition! 👏🔬

This #MicroscopyMonday shows the early formation of a small colony of corals from the Hawaiian Montipora capitata coral. #Coral polyps have autofluorescence by the expression of the Green Fluorescent Protein. 🪸 (@Gibson_Lab)

Hear from alum Nicole Nuckolls about the opportunities and experiences that shaped her Ph.D. journey at Stowers Graduate School! ⬇️ Explore our fully funded #PhD program and discover what's possible.

Spend your summer exploring science at Stowers! 🔬 Applications are now open for our 2027 Summer Scholars Program, offering undergraduate students eight weeks of hands-on research experience alongside our scientists. Learn more and apply below! ⬇️

New research co-authored by Stowers Investigator @MGStowers, Ph.D., Published in @CurrentBiology. More below⬇️