Contact Us

Meet the Team!


Gwendolyn ("Gwen") Stovall, Ph.D.

  • Research Educator and Assistant Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences Freshman Research Initiative Aptamer Stream
  • Principal Investigator and Director, High School Research Initiative
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science

How to Contact:

Office Number: (512) 232-8348

Fax Number: (512) 232-1435

Email: gwenstovall@utexas.edu

Andrew D. Ellington, Ph.D. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

  • Pioneer of aptamer technologies
  • Principal Investigator, Freshman Research Initiative Aptamer Stream
  • Founder of the Ellington Lab
      • The Ellington lab is a biotechnology lab that engineers nucleic acids and proteins for biomedical and other applications. Nucleic acid biosensors (aptamers, ribozymes) and nucleic acid circuits (DNA computers) are being harnessed to diagnostic applications, especially for point-of-care diagnostics in resource-poor settings and for facile tumor detection.