Student Madeliene Thomas poses while receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Madeleine Thomas of Southwestern University, who tied for first place with their poster "An analysis of the dopaminergic pathway in the brain and pituitary of male-pregnant pipefish and seahorses" in the Neuroscience Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Student Julia Jurewicz poses while receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Julia Jurewicz of University of Mary Hardin-Baylor whose poster "Impact of azadiradione on DNA oxidation" tied for third place in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Student Alfonso Lena Ordaz poses receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Alfonso Lena Ordaz of Temple College, who won second place for their poster "Improving math readiness for general chemistry through the development of an online bootcamp" in the Science Education Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Student Sam Vargas poses while receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Sam Vargas of @utaustin.bsky.social, who won first place for their poster "Discovering novel inhibitors for 3-Oxoacyl-(Acyl-Carrier-Protein) reductase (FabG) in Plasmodium falciparum" in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Student Osina poses while receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Osina is from Texas Lutheran University and her poster was titled "The adipogenic effects of butylparaben on OP9 mouse cells"
Student Abebe poses receiving her award from TAS President Maria Burns
Abebe is from @acuedu.bsky.social and her poster was titled "New protocol for genotyping Casper Zebrafish mutants using RT-PCR in a university genetics course"
Congratulations to Pheben Abebe and Natalie Osina, whose posters tied for second place in the Cell & Molecular Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
"@austincollege.bsky.social students present Research at Texas Academy of Science" www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publi...
Coverage of Howard Payne University students who attended our 2026 Annual Meeting baptiststandard.com/news/around-...
Perez' talk was titled "Screening TZ62, TZ70, TZ71 and DKNR8, DKNR10, DKNR13 for induction of apoptosis and inhibition of metastasis"
Maximilano Perez receives an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Maximiliano Perez of University of Houston - Downtown, who won first place for their oral presentation in the Cell & Molecular Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Congratulations to Justy Chung of @tamu.bsky.social, who tied for third place poster "Comparing dynamics of fermentation and probiotic properties with American Kimchi" in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Congratulations to Laura Jung of @utaustin.bsky.social, who won first place for their poster "Discovering potential inhibitors of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) using computational docking" in the Biomedical Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Nguyen's poster was titled "A taxonomically and ecologically diverse marine vertebrate assemblage at the end of the Cretaceous in Texas (USA)"
Kieu Nguyen receives an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Kieu Nguyen of @austincollege.bsky.social, who won first place for their poster in the Systematics & Evolutionary Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Congratulations to Thanh Tien Dao of @sfasu.edu, who won the Amir-Moez Award in Mathematics and Computer Science for their oral presentation "In silico design of peptides to prevent insulin aggregation" at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Dhivya's talk was entitled "Comprehensive insights into mosquito species diversity and habitat-specific host selection patterns in Cameron Park Zoo, Waco, Texas"
Student Dhivya Rajamanickam poses while receiving an award from TAS President Maria Burns
Congratulations to Dhivya Rajamanickam of @baylor.bsky.social , who won second place for their oral presentation in the Graduate Student Competition at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
Texas Academy of Science President Maria Burns handing an award check to Tina Prajapati
Congratulations to Tina Prajapati of University of Houston - Downtown, who won second place for their oral presentation "Screening compounds for their anti-cell proliferation properties" in the Biomedical Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!
This news release gives me way too much credit, but happy to share on successes of undergraduate collaborators at the recent @txacsci.bsky.social meeting. www.depts.ttu.edu/agricultural...
Email current Executive Board Members Craig Younce (craig dot younce at hsutx dot edu); Kathy Wood (katewood001 at gmail dot com); Maria Burns (mburns at central dot UH dot edu) and Gerry Mulvey (irish69th at msn dot com) with interest or questions by March 20, 2026!
The Texas Academy of Science is seeking passionate Texas scientists for the following leadership roles:
• Non-Academic Director
• Student Representative
• Academic Director
• Executive Secretary
Read about these roles here: www.texasacademyofscience.org/volunteer-jo...
Email current Executive Board Members Craig Younce (craig dot younce at hsutx dot edu); Kathy Wood (katewood001 at gmail dot com); Maria Burns (mburns at central dot UH dot edu) and Gerry Mulvey (irish69th at msn dot com) with interest or questions by March 20, 2026!
I'd rather be keelhauled through a sea of cat litter than format tables in Word.
Macro photo in side view of a black and yellow striped wasp standing on a pure white background with its orange, black-tipped antennae held out in front. The wasp is fairly stubby, with short legs and a rather cylindrical shape.
The emergence of spring bees here in Austin also means the emergence of somewhat rarer bee parasites. I caught this Sapyga nevadica wasp yesterday; it lays eggs in solitary bee nests.
Check out #FromtheLabs' new Image of the Month! Image courtesy of the C. Cheng lab. @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcmgenetics.bsky.social #TripleNegativeBreastCancer #Metastasis #BCMCancerCenter #BCMpostdoc blogs.bcm.edu/2026/02/26/f...
Excited for our 129th Annual Meeting to begin tomorrow at @uttyler.bsky.social! Please tag related posts with #TAS129 and we'll help spread the excitement!
