Dr. Thomas C. Südhof is an adjunct professor of neuroscience and former chairman of the department at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Thomas C. Südhof, adjunct professor of neuroscience and former chairman of the department at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was one of three scientists awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of key information about how cellular transport systems work.

This three-dimensional chimpanzee skull was printed using the same basic technology that Shear's lab is now using to print bacterial cages. By caging bacteria in microscopic houses, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin are studying how communities of bacteria, such as those found in the human gut and lungs, interact and develop infections.