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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 19d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Pelechano lab @pelechanolab.bsky.social · 27d

We are looking for new SciLifeLab Fellows (group leaders) to join SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet @ki.se . @scilifelab.se is a great place to start your lab with generous funding. Deadline: 15th November. Apply and join us in beautiful #Stockholm #JuniorPI ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Assistant Professor in Molecular Life Science (SciLifeLab Fellow)

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? Karolinska Institutet (KI) is recruiting researchers as part of the SciLifeLab Fellows program. The successful candidates will join KI and co

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

QKI ensures splicing fidelity during cardiogenesis by engaging the U6 tri-snRNP to activate splicing at weak 5ʹ splice sites

During organogenesis, precise pre-mRNA splicing is essential to assemble tissue architecture. Many developmentally essential exons bear weak 5'splice sites (5'SS) yet are spliced with high precision, ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

www.nytimes.com

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @mskcancercenter.bsky.social · Sep 7

MSK’s Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is now accepting applications for its Cancer Biology and Cancer Engineering #PhD programs for the 2026 academic year. Apply below:

Admission to the PhD Programs

Gerstner Sloan Kettering offers a unique opportunity to train with some of the world’s leading researchers while developing a deep understanding of today’s clinical challenges. We are looking for high...

www.sloankettering.edu

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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · Sep 3

Huge congrats to our very first PhD student David Xiang for successful defense!
Kudoso to our team, committee members, collaborators to support his work on human gastruloid and critical genes for transcriptional regulation in organogenesis

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ME Torres-Padilla @metorrespadilla.bsky.social · Jun 12

Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ?

Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum
www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell...

Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!!

Please distribute :) 🙂

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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · Aug 29

🧬 Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II relies on a web of elongation factors. Our new work shows how IWS1 acts as a modular scaffold to stabilize & stimulate elongation. Fantastic work by Della Syau! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open rank faculty search in my department. Please re-post!

Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2
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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anyone working in metastasis research – the BEUG Foundation has once again opened the call for their Metastasis Research Prize.
This prize is a wonderful recognition of innovative contributions and supports excellence in metastasis research across Europe.
www.beugstiftung-metastase.de/apply-now/

Apply now – Beugstiftung

www.beugstiftung-metastase.de

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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great catch up with Dongrui, @liliulab.bsky.social and Weike at Westlake U visit sharing human embryo model and CAR macrophage works. Thanks @hkusbms.bsky.social for organizing this opportunity!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · Aug 21

This covid drawing on the corner of my white board survived >3 years. Our "MD Alex" drew this then medical student, is residency now. His study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amanda Amodeo @aaamodeo.bsky.social · Aug 14

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).

Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.

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Nafisa Jadavji, PhD, FAHA @nafisajadavji.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring for 2 positions. A TT faculty member and NT instructor. A great place to work with supportive colleagues! @futurepislack.bsky.social #academicsky
Please share and reach out!
TT Assistant Professor
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37858520...
NTT Instructor
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Assistant Professor - Carbondale, Illinois, United States job with Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | 37858520

Description The Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at Southern Illinois University School...

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · Aug 18

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · Aug 15

A little over two weeks to the deadline! 20 positions, generous startup funding, a great community and fantastic infrastructure. Come join us!

Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · Jun 25

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Jun 25

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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Milena Schuhmacher @mschuhmacher.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are hiring!

If you are looking for a postdoc position and you are interested in signaling lipids and proteomics, come join us in beautiful Switzerland!

More information on www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schu...

Open positions

GR-SCHUHMACHER

www.epfl.ch

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 10

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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