van Hoof Lab

Next week the van Hoof lab will be moving to the Molecular Genetics Department at OSU. After 23 years in Houston, I am excited about the new opportunities, thankful for the past opportunities at UTHSC-Houston, proud of all the trainees trained, and sad to leave many good friends.

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…

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

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👏! @MDA_UTHGrad @vanHooligans

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

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

A vanHooligan Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🏻

Congratulations to PhD student and vanHooligan Sayef on winning an award for the great talk he gave at the Texas branch of @ASMicrobiology and to the three other @MIDatGSBS students that won an award for their poster presentations.

@MIDatGSBS @ASMicrobiology Congratulations!

Big congratulations to all the MID students that attended and also those that won presentation awards at the @ASMicrobiology Texas Branch meeting in Galveston. Go MID!!!!👏

MicroBOOology day!

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

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

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

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

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! 🥳

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

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: #d8935ee4-b008-4d84-aef5-457cd5d0b301" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">uth.edu/postdocs/open-…

Damn, have to miss #RNADECAYSRC becuase @united canceled my flight three days in a row.

The great science will have to wait a day. Only made it half way there on the first try.

On my way to #RNADECAYSRC. Looking forward to some great science!