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Congrats to Lee-Ann who won a poster award at #RNA24!

The van Hoof lab is a full house this summer! ☀️ Welcome to Yoksha, a microSURP undergraduate student, and Haden, a 1st year graduate student doing her first rotation with us!

I am very excited to announce the Pountain Lab is hiring a postoc in bacterial single cell gene expression and pathogenesis! Please retweet to put the word out. See here for the details: uth.edu/postdocs/open-…

The The RNA Society Awards deadline has been extended to October 7th so please nominate or apply today! rnasociety.org/awards

Our summer microSURP student Yoksha Muruganantham liked us so much that she decided to stay in the lab for her entire sophomore year at Rice! 🥳

Dxo1 does it again! We are proud of our work which has recently been accepted for publication in RNA! rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Senior grad student Lee-Ann painted this pumpkin for outside our lab! 🎃 #spookyseason

The van Hooligans had a great time at #renfest! Texas graced us with some beautiful weather ☀️

The grad students are getting crafty for the MID MicroBOOology door decorating contest! ✂️🎨🖌️

MicroBOOology day!

Congratulations to PhD student and vanHooligan Sayef on winning an award for the great talk he gave at the Texas branch of ASM and to the three other Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Grad Prgm students that won an award for their poster presentations.

A vanHooligan Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🏻

There’s no door decorating contest; we just like to be festive 🎅🏻🎄 last week before the holiday break! ✨

Congratulations to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice-Sarpaning who successfully defended her PhD yesterday! We are so proud of you!

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice Sarpaning (PI: Ambro van Hoof) and Dr. Chioma Odo (PI: Samuel Shelburne) on their graduation yesterday. MID is proud of these young scientists👏! MD Anderson-UTH Grad van Hoof Lab

Catherine and Justin both won presentation awards at the 2025 MMG/MID retreat a few weeks ago! 👏🏼 way to go van Hooligans!

Ever wonder why tRNAs have introns? Our brand new PNAS paper suggests it may be because a tRNA methylase needs the intron in tyrosine tRNA. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…