A. Sánchez Alvarado

Science is humanity’s grand endeavor to understand the universe & our place in it Every scientific breakthrough a testament to our curiosity & perseverance Science remains our compass, guiding us through the labyrinth of ideas, helping us distinguish truth from illusion, voices from echoes

🔬The Hall Lab at the Stowers Institute is looking for a Research Technician II to join the team! Led by Stowers Fellow Nelson Hall, Ph.D., the lab explores how stem cells support regeneration across diverse species, including some fascinating flatworms. 🪱 🔗 Apply: www.stowers.org/careers/rese...

🔬 NEW research from the Gibson Lab, published in Science Advances, reveals what sea anemones can teach us about human fertility! 🌊 The findings uncover surprising similarities in proteins essential for producing eggs and sperm. 🔗 bit.ly/4ieFxo6

🔬 Stowers President & Chief Scientific Officer @planaria1.bsky.social has launched a Substack! His first essay, A Quiet Engine, explores curiosity, scientific discovery, and the human side of research. 📖 Read and subscribe: alejandrosnchezalvarado.substack.com/p/a-quiet-en...

🔬 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. 🔬🌱 (Sankari Lab)

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

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 (@stanforduniversity.bsky.social) for joining us for a great #StowersSeminarSeries hosted by @bazzinilab.bsky.social.

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

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)

My son’s album is now availnle on Apple Music Take a listen! music.apple.com/us/album/mis...

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

2/ What if a new job changed your personality & extended your life? 🤯 Harpegnathos ants 🐜 do exactly that. Awardee Janko Gospocic is studying the epigenetics behind their caste-transitions, which could unlock new ways to reverse brain aging. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Gospocic! 🙏 #HFScout @planaria1.bsky.social

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.

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 ⬇️

From the Stowers Graduate School to @mpi-cbg.de 🧬 Alum Augusto Ortega Granillo, Ph.D., reflects on his journey at #StowersGrad and how pairing #biology with physics is shaping his #research today. 🔗Read more + applications are NOW OPEN: bit.ly/4xpAc2Y

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

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

(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

(2/2) More on the @pnas.org study ⬇️ #neuroscience #scisky

🚨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

(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

(2/2) Watch part two below⬇️🪸

Single-cell transcriptomes of acorn worms show that larval & adult body plans are composed of distinct cell types. Larval & adult cells evolve quasi-independently! @paulbump.bsky.social @laurentformery.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social @planaria1.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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)

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

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)

On August 18 or 19 in 1936, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca was killed by a firing squad on the outskirts of Granada, Spain. He was 38. His body was never found Read him this month. The Romancero gitano, the New York poems, Bodas de sangre. Ninety Augusts later, the moon still comes into the forge

#MicroscopyMonday | When the proliferation gene responsible for progenitor populations is disrupted (right), progenitors regenerate hair cells through direct differentiation in the absence of proliferation. Wild type neuromast (left). (Piotrowski Lab) #SciSky

At this year's Faculty EDGE workshop, Stowers postdoctoral researchers refined their #research talks, practiced chalk talks, and received valuable feedback from visiting faculty at leading research institutions. 🔗Learn more: bit.ly/4wi0xzE

The Northern Harrier flies at the edge of falling. Its flight so slow that it is as if it was held aloft by desire alone. And when the flight ends and the Nothern Harrier lands in the tall grass and disappears from view, it is as if the entire field goes away with it.

Planarian flatworms have amazing regenerative abilities. After being sliced in half, wounds close within minutes, new eyes appear in days, and by day seven, the regenerated body is behaving like a functioning flatworm. @stowersinstitute.bsky.social bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

President and CSO @planaria1.bsky.social featured on Big Picture Science podcast⬇️

Alexander Calder’s birth certificate says 22 July 1898. His mother insisted on August Fitting for a man whose life’s work was to show that balance is provisional, and that the finest structures are those still deciding where to rest

Recreating the Great Barrier Reef in a basement in the heart of the Midwest? Very few people ever witness #coral spawning in the wild. But on Floor B3 of the Stowers Institute, our team of researchers has discovered what it takes to successfully spawn coral in the lab. 🪸Learn more: bit.ly/4fAYkcb

From specialized #ribosomes to translational control, the 2026 Stowers Research Conference will explore the latest discoveries shaping our understanding of protein synthesis across #biology. #SRCKC26 🗓 October 21–23, 2026 📍 Kansas City, Missouri Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so

What if #AI could predict a cell's future? Researchers at the Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social are working toward that with RegVelo—an AI tool that helps reveal where cells are headed and what drives their fate. On #WorldAIDay, explore how AI is advancing #biology⬇️ bit.ly/4f7jlvZ

Evan Morrison, Ph.D., didn't always envision a career in #science. Today, he continues his @hhmi-science.bsky.social Gilliam Fellowship in the @kkostova.bsky.social Lab, where he's pursuing curiosity-driven #research to better understand how cells function. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/4wMAYqX

Today’s Faculty EDGE seminar series is underway, featuring #research presentations from four Institute postdocs!