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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 1d

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 15d

🚨 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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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 3d

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Pitt Department of Immunology @pitt-immunology.bsky.social · 6d

Great minds think unalike: Learn how a team of immunologists, cancer researchers, telomere experts, and an organic chemist brought their different expertise together to reveal new insights into how damage to #telomeres can shut down #cancer -fighting T cells. buff.ly/gICm1SL (1/2)

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 6d

We are currently in the process of recruiting a technician. 🥼🐭🔬

If you know anyone with enthusiasm to learn new skills and stamina to hear me go on and on about IFNs, please have them reach out to me for more details!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 6d

If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague!

Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 12843515

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine—Basic Sciences

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Pitt Department of Immunology @pitt-immunology.bsky.social · 14d

👋 Hello Bluesky! We are the Pitt Department of Immunology. From autoimmune disease and cancer immunotherapy to vaccine development to infectious disease, our work spans the spectrum of immunological science. Follow along for updates on the latest publications and other news!

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Rachel Gottschalk @gottschalklab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excellent opportunity - the Kueh lab will be recruiting at the Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology this fall.

The Kueh lab @kuehlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

As we setup our lab here, we will be looking to recruit at all levels, from students and postdocs to research /management personnel. If you are motivated and curious to understand and engineer the immune system, send me a message.

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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · Aug 12

🛡️How do macrophages tailor their defenses to different pathogens? Our new paper in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social combines dense multi-omics time series with high‐content CRISPR screens (CROP-seq) to map the regulatory landscape underlying macrophage immune responses: www.cell.com/cell-systems... (1/9)

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · Aug 8

AT2 cell–derived GM-CSF is essential for establishing a terminally differentiated CD301b+ lung cDC2 compartment and type 2 immunity @sciimmunology.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GM-CSF derived from alveolar type 2 cells promotes CD301b+ cDC2 generation and allergic airway inflammation

AT2 cell–derived GM-CSF is essential for establishing a terminally differentiated CD301b+ lung cDC2 compartment and type 2 immunity.

www.science.org

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · Aug 5

MSA Pairformer efficiently extracts structure, protein-protein interactions, and mutation effects from MSAs by decomposing the effects of phylogeny and structural contacts.

@yoakiyama.bsky.social Zhidian Zhang @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @sokrypton.org

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · Aug 5

Good news for NIH MIRA applicants. Grants.gov recently published the forecast notice for the reissuance of the EI/NI MIRA notice of funding opportunity. As indicated at the link, the estimated post date for the NOFO is Nov 3. www.grants.gov/search-resul...

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Rachel Gottschalk @gottschalklab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Yay! Congratulations.

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JCI insight @insight.jci.org · Jul 19

ICYMI: Parsing the STING in pulmonary hypertension—

Andrew J. Bryant & team report on opposing roles for STING in PH—a paradigm shifting mechanism suggesting we refocus on treatments that target cell-specific inflammatory activation: buff.ly/DWmLPLp

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Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social · Jul 18

NIH is already feeling the effects of LLMs.

A new policy was posted yesterday that limits the number of proposals that can be submitted by any one investigator.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Adam MacLean @adamlmaclean.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is such a cool paper and dataset from lab of @arjunraj.bsky.social. There are [ahem] a lot of spatial transcriptomics papers out there. Here's a [rare?] example of one from which we can truly learn some interesting things...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Single-cell spatial mapping reveals reproducible cell type organization and spatially-dependent gene expression in gastruloids

Gastruloids are three-dimensional stem-cell-based models that recapitulate key aspects of mammalian gastrulation, including formation of an anterior-posterior (AP) axis. However, we do not have detail...

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Ruth Franklin @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exciting week! Congrats to @xuzhoulab.bsky.social, Ruslan Medzhitov, & coauthors on discovering a new mechanism to regulate inflammation!! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Regulation of inflammatory responses by pH-dependent transcriptional condensates

Inflammation is an essential defense response but operates at the cost of normal tissue functions. Whether and how the negative impact of inflammation…

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Jul 16

'In the present study, we found evidence that the brain and immune system may be central regulators of aging and longevity in humans, as aged brains are most strongly predictive of earlier mortality, and youthful brains and immune systems are uniquely predictive of longevity.'

Plasma proteomics links brain and immune system aging with healthspan and longevity - Nature Medicine

In a large-scale proteomic study of biological aging of 11 organs from 44,498 individuals in the UK Biobank, the biological ages of the brain and immune system emerged as strong predictors of healthsp...

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · Jul 14

My NIH diversity supplement was reinstated! 🥳

This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽

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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · Jul 12

#WeekendRead! #InterferonsFriendsOrFoes?! @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social, Medzhitov, Hoagland, Rodriguez-Morales &co show @science.org that macrophage-derived oncostatin M overcomes type I IFN detrimental responses during severe influenza lung infection by driving AT-II epithelial cell proliferation!

Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage

Tissue repair programs must function alongside antiviral immunity to restore the lung epithelial barrier following infection. We found that macrophage-derived oncostatin M (OSM) counteracted the patho...

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meisellab.bsky.social @meisellab.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our lab just completed a +6 year #marathon, describing for the first time that the #microbiome is critical for #exercise - induced increases in antitumor CD8 T cell immunity and improved of #cancer #immunotherapy.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Exercise-induced microbiota metabolite enhances CD8 T cell antitumor immunity promoting immunotherapy efficacy

Exercise enhances antitumor immunity and immunotherapy effectiveness by increasing microbiota-derived formate, which boosts CD8 T cell function and may serve as a biomarker of melanoma suppression.

www.cell.com

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Zach Walsh @zwalsh96.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thrilled to re-share our tweetorial on Bluesky: now out in @cp-cell.bsky.social (🔗 tinyurl.com/3a55tsky) - we present a framework to accelerate variant classification, diagnosis & treatment of inborn errors of immunity. A dream MD/PhD project, which has already led to the treatment of a patient.

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · Jun 19

@saramostafavi.bsky.social (@Genentech) & I (@Stanford) r excited to announce co-advised postdoc positions for candidates with deep expertise in ML for bio (especially sequence to function models, causal perturbational models & single cell models). See details below. Pls RT 1/

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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · Jun 25

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Jun 25

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · Jun 24

As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget.

prospect.org/politics/202...

Will the Senate Save NIH?

Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.

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