Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for their family’s first-ever snowboarding vacation. It was a chance for the couple and their two young kids to relax after the holidays and before the spring semester kicked off at UT, when McLellan would begin his second year as an associate professor in molecular biosciences. McLellan’s new snowboarding boots were pinching him, so he stopped at a shop to get them heat-molded to his feet. While he waited, McLellan saw Barney ...