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Nitin Kapadia
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EMBO and HFSP postdoctoral fellow in the Paul Nurse Lab @crick.ac.uk. Biophysicist studying biology from single molecules to the systems level. Alumnus of @reyes-lab.bsky.social @mcgill.ca 🇨🇦
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Nitin Kapadia @nitinkapadia.bsky.social · Jun 25
I'm very excited that my first postdoc paper is out now at @nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I developed new single cell CDK sensors to investigate how CDK orchestrates mitosis including investigating bistability/hysteresis, how activity is propagated, and the role of centrosomes.
Spatiotemporal orchestration of mitosis by cyclin-dependent kinase - Nature
Experiments in fission yeast show that cyclin-dependent kinase is first activated in the nucleus, from which the mitotic signal is propagated from CDK at the centrosome to the cytoplasm.
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Harriet Taylor @harrytaylorcrick.bsky.social · 2d
Ready to start your own independent research programme?

We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk

Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
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Yale MCDB @mcdb-yale.bsky.social · 2d
We are still accepting applications!

Apply by November 1 for full consideration
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Yale MCDB @mcdb-yale.bsky.social · Sep 9
Calling all biologists! 📢

Is your research at the cutting edge of synthetic biology, genomics or AI?

Apply to join our team of world-class scholars!🔬🦠

Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Anticipated Start Date: July 1, 2026

#hiring #genomics #biology
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 2d
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 2d
Many of you know, we lost Béla Novák this year. John Tyson, Francis Barr & I tried to capture his wonderful character & great mind so that those that didn't know him can see what a fantastic person he was.

Thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing.

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Béla Novák (1956–2025) – a legacy of scientific discovery and personal charm
In February 2025, we were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the death of Béla Novák, Professor in Integrative Systems Biology at the University of Oxford, UK, and a beloved grandfather, father...
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 26
📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
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Alberto Elosegui-Artola @aeloseguiartola.bsky.social · 2d
The Francis Crick Institute PhD programme recruitment is now live and our lab is recruiting. If you are interested in studying the role of the extracellular matrix in tissue dynamics during development and cancer please apply – link below. Please share. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Elosegui-Artola Lab | Mechanical regulation of tissue dynamics by the extracellular matrix in development and cancer
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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 3d
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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Isaac Wong @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social · 7d
Our new preprint reveals that 🪰's Cnn and 🪱's SPD-5 both form condensates in vitro, but assemble via divergent mechanisms in vivo. We show how phosphorylation unlocks Cnn’s autoinhibited scaffold and identify conserved features in 🚶‍♂️'s CDK5RAP2.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 7d
Structural insights into mitotic-centrosome assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680336v1
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 7d
Structural insights into mitotic-centrosome assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680336v1
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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 8d
Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 8d
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 7d
If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 9d
🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!

🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.

📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
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Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 10d
Come and join us at the Barts Cancer Institute @qmbci.bsky.social ! Our medical school, part of Queen Mary University of London @qmulfmd.bsky.social is hiring 10 professors!! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-747a/. Contact me for a chat if interested.
Professors x 10, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry | Veredus
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Professors x 10, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry London Competitive Remuneration Package Queen Mary University of London seeks up to 10 world-leading translational re...
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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 12d
BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...
Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 26d
Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 15d
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics Location: Pittsburgh, PA Open Date: Sep 19, 2025 Description The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area. More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360
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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 26d
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
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Ravi Kahlon @ravikahlon.bsky.social · 21d
In British Columbia, we value science and innovation.

We’re inviting tech talent, innovators, and scientists to come to B.C. and be part of building the economic engine of Canada’s new economy! 🍁
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Chiu Fan Lee @leebiophysics.bsky.social · Aug 21
Come join us at Imperial College!

Assistant/Associate Professor in Life Sciences
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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wbialek.bsky.social @wbialek.bsky.social · 24d
We have been fortunate to have a stream of extraordinary Fellows as part of our community. They have gone on to wonderful positions .. It is time, once more, to renew. Our annual search is a chance for us to understand what the brightest young people in the community are doing! Please apply!
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cpbf.bsky.social @cpbf.bsky.social · 26d
apply here by 10/1/25! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · Sep 10
We're hiring (again)!

We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly)

If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 28d
Structure, function and assembly of nuclear pore complexes. #NuclearPores @natrevmcb.nature.com 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nikita Frolov 🇺🇦 @nikitaphysics.bsky.social · Sep 5
Proud moment! The central results of my research over the last three years – specifically, on how the nucleus contributes to cell cycle scaling – were recently published in Current Biology. Check out the paper and the thread below for more details! 👇👇👇
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Lendert Gelens @lendertgelens.bsky.social · Sep 2
🧵Does the nucleus set the cell cycle clock? 🕒

In frog egg extract “mini-cells” we see that as nuclei grow, cycles slow down. The period scales with the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, across Xenopus species, and even when DNA replication or transcription are blocked.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Sep 10
Researchers have found that early embryonic cells start to specialise via converging developmental paths, rather than following linear trajectories as was previously believed.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Converging development: how cell paths unite in the embryo
By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells – early embryonic cells that give rise to tissues such as the gut and lungs – originate from multipl...
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · Sep 8
More on the ancient foundation of animal development. Coyle & King illustrate how core regulatory modules were present in our pre-animal ancestors. The key was not invention, but recycling & new protein interactions. #CellBiology #multicellularity #protistsOnSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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