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At the Stowers Institute, great minds are at work seeking to understand the function & behavior of living organisms, paving the way for future medical advances. Celebrating 25 years of discovery. #Stowers25

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can #AI predict the protein changes behind #Alzheimer's and #ALS? 🧬 Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., will receive ~$4.1M from @arpa-h.bsky.social to generate 10 billion+ measurements to train it, part of a $28.6M national effort led by @innovativegenomics.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/4dwI4Zw
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Stowers scientist selected for $28.6 million effort to predict…
The new award brings together a team of scientists who will combine AI, large-scale experiments and human-cell studies to predict harmful protein changes…
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stowers Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., and his lab are contributing to this ARPA-H-funded #research initiative! 🧬 Using technology developed in the Halfmann Lab, they'll generate experimental data to help train #AI models to predict #protein aggregation.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#WhatIf we didn’t have to age? What if we could prevent #cancer? What if nature holds the answers? 🔬 Introducing #WhatIf, a new Stowers Institute storytelling series exploring biology’s biggest questions and the scientists driven to answer them. 🎥 Watch our first three episodes: bit.ly/4v1D85W
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you to Judith Frydman (@stanforduniversity.bsky.social) for joining us for a great #StowersSeminarSeries hosted by @bazzinilab.bsky.social.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 laureates on this extraordinary achievement! 👏
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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)
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These programs have been very generous to #zebrafish researchers! (Shoutout to @kkostova.bsky.social from @stowersinstitute.bsky.social in the photo!)
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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! ⬇️
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a side view of #zebrafish sensory organs, called neuromasts. These organs detect water flow based on the deflection of the protruding hair bundles (stereocilia). @daniomuench.bsky.social (Piotrowski Lab)
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 Last chance for early-bird registration for #SRCKC26! Join researchers from across the field to explore emerging concepts in #ribosome heterogeneity, specialized translation, quality control and more. Today is also the deadline to submit an abstract for consideration. 🔗 bit.ly/43Vb9so
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Stowers Research Conferences: Ribosome Heterogeneity and…
Organized by Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D., Kamena Kostova, Ph.D., and Maria Barna, Ph.D.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you to Zhao Zhang (@duke-university.bsky.social) for joining us for a #StowersSeminarSeries talk, hosted by the @kkostova.bsky.social Lab!
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One hallmark of Stowers Research Conferences? Tandem Talks. Mentors and mentees share the stage to present discoveries together, highlighting both groundbreaking science and the next generation of scientific leaders. Hear from a previous attendee⬇️ Join us 10/21–23 at #SRCKC26: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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David L. Stern @gallseeker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/n New paper! In collaboration with Angela Gronenborn's lab, we solved the crystal structures of 2 bicycle proteins. They share some similarity to saposins, but are clearly not saposins. Instead, this stable backbone provides a platform for crazy diversity of form and surface chemistry.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Applications are open for the @stowersgrad.bsky.social #PhD program! Apply below ⬇️
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy first day of fall! 🍂 It won’t be long until the Institute is surrounded by these colors again.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(2/2) See how Stowers scientists combined #evolution, fieldwork and #AI to uncover the hidden structure of rapidly evolving aphid proteins. 🧬
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(1/2)When #AI couldn’t solve this protein structure, evolution helped scientists show it how. The @gallseeker.bsky.social Lab combined fieldwork, structural #biology + AlphaFold2 to uncover a hidden blueprint shared by thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins. New in @pnas.org: bit.ly/46E2XOx
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What if growing into an adult meant rewriting your cells? 🪱🔬 New #research from the Stowers Institute (@planaria1.bsky.social Lab) & @stanforduniversity.bsky.social reveals how the marine acorn worm transforms from larva to adult by reprogramming many of the cells it already has. 🔗 bit.ly/4hF99Mp
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Stowers Institute and Stanford University study reveals a marine worm…
New single-cell atlas of the acorn worm shows that most tissues undergo a genome-wide transcriptional overhaul as larva becomes adult, providing new…
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do some memories last a lifetime while others fade? On #WorldAlzheimersDay, explore five facts about memory and the #brain, and how Stowers scientists are studying the fundamental #biology behind how memories form, persist, and are lost. 🧠 Five facts about memory and the brain: bit.ly/4y1JNhy
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Five facts about memory and the brain
Memories of “firsts”—a first kiss, first love, first heartbreak—feel permanent. But why do we remember some moments yet forget others?
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This #WorldAlzheimersDay, our stunning #Microscopy Monday is an adult fly #brain, labeled in orange is the mushroom body, the memory center in flies, and the neurons on the sides are part of the medulla of the eye, essential for color vision. 🧠 (Si Lab)
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stowers Pres. & CSO @planaria1.bsky.social, welcomes our scientific community to #CRC26! From #research talks to poster presentations, this annual internal scientific meeting creates opportunities for scientists across career stages to share their work, learn from colleagues & make new connections.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📣 Deadline extended! Abstract submissions for #SRCKC26 are now open through September 28. Join us in #KansasCity, October 21–23, for Ribosome Heterogeneity and Translational Control from Cells to Organisms. 💻Submit your abstract & join the conversation this fall: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stowers Graduate School alum Augusto Ortega Granillo, Ph.D., reflects on his time at the Institute and the experiences that helped shape where his scientific career has taken him today. Check it out ⬇️
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Anna Klompen, PhD @gelatinoussting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Got my awesome @cnidofest.bsky.social merch, and excited to share what I have been up to the last few years at @mgstowers.bsky.social lab! I may be working with Stella for my postdoc but I remain #Hype4Hydrozoa🪼 @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
Black mug with hermit crab print in from of a sunny window.Microscope view of the end of a 1.5ml tube through green filter with tiny, bright green spots (sea anemone polyps) inside.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This beautiful #MicroscopyMonday shows how maternal regulation governs early embryonic development by coordinating gene expression in both time and space to direct proper embryonic growth. 🔬 (@bazzinilab.bsky.social Lab) #SciSky
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A. Sánchez Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
11/11 This work was led by @paulbump.bsky.social in @lowelab.bsky.social, with Brewster, Formery, Lubeck, Campbell, Morri, Sit, Rokhsar, & @blairbenhampyle.bsky.social @czbiohub.bsky.social, the National Science Foundation, @stowersinstitute.bsky.social, Myers Trust & the Haderlie Memorial Award
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A. Sánchez Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/11 Our newest study asks how far cellular reprogramming extends in the ordinary course of animal life. Metamorphosis offers the test of maximal severity: the wholesale conversion of one body plan into another. Out now in Nature Communications. nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77191-y
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨Register early and save your spot! Early bird pricing for the 2026 Stowers Research Conference ENDS MONDAY, September 14. #SRCKC26 ✔️ Abstract submission deadline: 9/14 ✔️ Early bird pricing ends: 9/14 Register today: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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Stowers Research Conferences: Ribosome Heterogeneity and…
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(2/2) More on the @pnas.org study ⬇️ #neuroscience #scisky
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(1/2) NEW #research from the Özel Lab 🧠 By mapping 232,251 cells in the developing fruit fly brain, Stowers scientists discovered that neurons actively build their identities during a critical window just after they are born. Read more about the @pnas.org study: bit.ly/3UATViG
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stowers scientists partnered with Google DeepMind to help advance AlphaGenome, an #AI model built to better understand how #DNA sequences regulate gene activity. 🔗 @statnews.com takes a closer look at the #technology and its potential for genomic #research, read the article here: bit.ly/4ikuUlF
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DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, aiming to predict gene regulation from DNA sequence
Google's DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, an artificial intelligence model that predicts gene expression from DNA sequence.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stowers scientists are featured in @fortune.com for their work with Google DeepMind on AlphaGenome Atlas—an AI-powered resource mapping predictions for 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes across the human genome. 🧬 Read more about the collaboration: bit.ly/4x6NMYR
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Google DeepMind publishes AI-powered predictions for the effect of all 9 billion possible single-point mutations to human DNA | Fortune
DeepMind's catalogue of predicted DNA mutation effects, could help scientists unlock the cause of rare genetic diseases and help them find cures.
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Julia Zeitlinger @juliazeitlinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy to have contributed to this work! This is a great resource for anybody studying the cis-regulatory code.
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Stowers Institute partnered with Google DeepMind on AlphaGenome Atlas, a new AI-powered resource mapping predictions for 9+ billion possible single-letter DNA changes. 🧬 Stowers’ @juliazeitlinger.bsky.social Ph.D., helped guide its development and demonstrate its potential. bit.ly/4r4Bn6C
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEWS: Google DeepMind has unveiled the AlphaGenome Atlas, with #AI predictions for 9 billion possible #DNA variants. Stowers Investigator @juliazeitlinger.bsky.social, Ph.D., & her team used the Atlas to explore the DNA “words” that help control gene activity. 🧬 Learn more: bit.ly/4r4Bn6C
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Stowers Institute partners with Google DeepMind and leading research…
Researchers provided biological expertise and feedback that helped guide the development of a new AI-powered resource released today. For the first time,…
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
(2/2) Watch part two below⬇️🪸
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
(1/2) 🎉 Congrats to Stowers Visual Storyteller and Multimedia Producer Jill Toyoshiba on her Mid-America Emmy nomination! Her nominated story dives into the fascinating coral #research happening right here at the Institute. 🪸 Watch the nominated video below and explore the story: bit.ly/4fAYkcb
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This week's stunning #MicroscopyMonday shows individual gene expression (colors) which highlight the diversity and localization of cell types within a flatworm. 🪱 (@planaria1.bsky.social Lab)
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How is translation regulated across different cell types, tissues, and organisms? Join us October 21–23 as experts explore ribosome heterogeneity, specialized ribosomes, translational control, and the technologies driving the next generation of discoveries. #SRCKC26 🔗 Register: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(2/2)That clearer view led to a surprising insight: how DNA is wrapped around nucleosomes may help predict how it is organized in 3D inside the nucleus. PISA could help scientists bridge the gap between powerful #AI models and the biological mechanisms they want to understand. 🔗 bit.ly/4gwN0Oy
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/2) NEW #research published Nature Communications: Scientists in the @zeitlingerlab.bsky.social developed PISA, a new AI interpretation method that lets researchers see, at high resolution, what #AI models learn from #DNA sequences. 🧬 ⬇️
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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Pick a small field, one you are excited about. It can be challenging, but you get to discover new things all the time & make important contributions to broader scientific knowledge. For me, it has made my work fulfilling & a lot of fun." Lovely Q&A with @gelatinoussting.bsky.social 🪼🪸 #cnidaria 🦑
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This #MicroscopyMonday explores when nature plays with symmetry across species. A rare two-headed Killifish (left) and Zebrafish (right) conjoined larvae can occur, seen above with a fluorescent label marking the lateral line (a sensory system). 🔬(Piotrowski Lab)
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🪼Jellyfish and anemones sting using some of the most complex cell-based venom systems in the animal kingdom. @mgstowers.bsky.social Lab postdoc @gelatinoussting.bsky.social is decoding how these stinging cells form, work rooted in 500+ million years of #evolution. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3SsB74n
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Aphids hijack a plant’s biology to build galls where they raise their young. 🌱 Stern Lab member Aishwarya Korgaonkar, Ph.D., studies the proteins behind this remarkable process. 🔗 bit.ly/45vc8Ar
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The gall of an aphid
Aishwarya Korgaonkar, Ph.D., a researcher in the Stern Lab, can’t stop thinking about little sap-sucking insects most of us barely notice
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Anna Klompen, PhD @gelatinoussting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is one of my favorite HCR images, not only because it is beautiful but because it was one of the first 6 color HCR FISH experiments we imaged. It showed me what was possible for studying stinging cell biology, and has led to several ongoing projects! #StunningStella #ToxinTuesday
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're accepting abstracts for #SRKC26! Share your latest research, connect with leaders in the field, and have the opportunity to present your work. 📅 Abstract deadline: September 14 Submit yours today: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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