We are thrilled to share our latest preprint describing our new ribosome profiling approach: Ribo-ITP. This work is the culmination of six years of development by many talented scientists. S...

Our paper, on the function of the NSP1 protein on SARS-CoV-2 infection, is highlighted on the September 2021 issue of the RNA journal. From the abstract of our manuscript: "Viruse...

We are very happy to see Alia join our team. Alia recently graduated from UT and she is our new research associate.

We are sad to see Tori leave our lab for medical school. She made crucial contributions in establishing our lab as well as starting our projects at UT. She will be missed in Cenik Lab! We wish T...

We are sad to see Michael leave the lab for medical school. After working from home for a whole year, Michael was in Austin just time for us to have a lab social to celebrate all the great work he...

In a fantastic collaboration with the Sarinay Lab , we characterized a non-canonical splice variant in an intron of RPL11. This mutation is causative for Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) in a family...

Can has been awarded a 3-year research grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation. We are grateful for all these generous grants making our research possible.

Michael Geng, a former undergraduate research assistant of ours, is now a research associate. Congratualtions Michael! We are happy to see you full time in our lab.

Welcome to Phillip and Lee who are joining us as rotating graduate students!

Michael is a winner of Research Distinction by the College of Natural Sciences for the 2019-20 academic year. This award is given to fewer than 10% of the graduating seniors excelling in research,...