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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 9d

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 22d

We’re proud of our global research community at the Biozentrum @unibas.ch!
Our scientists from 40+ countries bring their passion & diverse cultures to every discovery.
🔬Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Cg...

Working at the Biozentrum Basel | World-Class Science & Life in Switzerland

YouTube video by BiozentrumBasel

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Katie Kindt @kt-kindt.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Zebrafish Neurobiology meeting will be held this fall- Nov 19-22 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Abstracts are due Sept 5th. #cshlzebrafish

Please join us in person or attend virtually with access to posters and oral sessions via zoom.
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Zebrafish Neurobiology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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University of Basel @unibas.ch · Sep 4

Seven researchers from the University of Basel receive ERC Starting Grants – an exceptional result for the University of Basel. Over the next five years, they will each receive between EUR 1.5 million and EUR 2.3 million in funding.

Seven researchers from the University of Basel receive ERC Starting Grants

In the competition for highly sought-after research funding from the European Research Council, seven researchers from the University of Basel convinced the jury with their project ideas. Over the nex...

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Sep 1

Save-the-date
Career Event @unibas.ch – October 22, 2025

Join us for an inspiring two-part event:
Interview with Thomas Schinecker, CEO of Roche; Panel with leaders from Roche and McKinsey & Company; Apéro & Networking. More information: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/events/confe...

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Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Aug 26

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 26

🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 26

🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 25

Assistant Project Coordinator – Biozentrum PhD Fellowships – PhD Student Office (80% - 100%)
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#Biozentrum #Basel #joboffer #hiring #job #recruiting #careers #Assistant #ProjectCoordinator

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 11

NCCR AntiResist, “New approaches to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria”, is recruiting a Scientific Officer (80-100%)

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#Biozentrum #Basel #research #science #joboffer #hiring #job #recruiting #careers #Scientific #Officer #NCCR #AntiResist

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Aug 10

Everything (and more) you wanted to know about Nodal Signaling. A Paradigm for TGFβ Signaling in Embryonic Development | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Nodal Signaling: A Paradigm for TGFβ Signaling in Embryonic Development | Annual Reviews

Nodal signaling molecules are TGFβ family ligands that arose early during bilaterian evolution and are crucial for several key steps in embryonic development. They regulate the specification of mesode...

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 4

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland

Biozentrum PhD Fellowships

Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Jul 27

There are only so many science jobs abroad to absorb U.S. scientists. What’s coming is more than a brain drain — it’s a brain drought, as new talent stops entering US science altogether.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jul 26

As happened in Germany in the 1930s, we will see an exodus of America’s greatest minds to other countries as scientists flee attacks by this administration on research. This is “Trump’s gift” to the world. And it is a catastrophe for the United States. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you are in the Boston area on July 23, join me, Doug Melton, Kara McKinley, Barbara Treutlein, Hans Clevers, and Ivan Martin for a discussion on stem cells and organoids in biology and medicine. Register here:
swissnex.org/boston/event...

Biological Engineering: A Conversation on the Future of Medicine - Swissnex in Boston and New York

Connecting Switzerland, North America and the world in science, education, innovation and art.

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you are in the Boston area on July 23, join me, Doug Melton, Kara McKinley, Barbara Treutlein, Hans Clevers, and Ivan Martin for a discussion on stem cells and organoids in biology and medicine. Register here:
swissnex.org/boston/event...

Biological Engineering: A Conversation on the Future of Medicine - Swissnex in Boston and New York

Connecting Switzerland, North America and the world in science, education, innovation and art.

swissnex.org

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Jul 4

From July 4, 2015 to July 4 now. "Once democratic expectations are lowered, rebuilding them becomes exponentially harder. The best remedy is dishabituation – to see things in light of our best historical practices, our largest ideals, and our highest aspirations". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Will we habituate to the decline of democracy?

The recent attack on science in the US is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining democracy. In a healthy democracy, public policy is guided by evidence, and truth is the shared foundat...

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I invite any Trump administration official who thinks our academic standards have declined to sit for an exam in my class. If you can explain the quantum principles underlying the structure of the Periodic Table (like my 18-year-old freshmen can), then you can lecture me on academic standards".

adamezracohen.bsky.social @adamezracohen.bsky.social · May 28

I wrote about the government's attacks on Harvard. Hope this reaches a few persuadable minds.
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Defunding Harvard Hurts America | by Adam Ezra Cohen - Project Syndicate

Adam Ezra Cohen explains the real-world consequences of canceling federal research grants in the name of fighting antisemitism.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jun 7

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”

A Permanent Stain on Our History

The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 29

New Op-Ed in the Guardian regarding the new "Gold Standard Science" Executive Order.

From @cdelawalla.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com @briannosek.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social, Carol Greider, and Victor Ambros.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · May 18

Every disease has a disease community. We need to tell them what the destruction of US science means for them: no cures, no hope. We are in the same boat. We need to rally together.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 17

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research

Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · May 14

My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 14

NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · May 16

About one-third of all approved drugs target G protein-coupled receptors. Scientists @biozentrum.unibas.ch used a GPS-like NMR method to track the motions of a #GPCR, thus revealing how it works. The findings provide guidance for drug design. @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

GPS for proteins: Tracking the motions of cell receptors

Taste, pain, or response to stress — nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the Biozentrum have...

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University of Basel @unibas.ch · May 16

Taste, pain, or response to stress — nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by so-called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers @biozentrum.unibas.ch have uncovered the fundamental mechanism how such a GPCR works, using a method similar to the earth satellite GPS.

GPS for proteins: Tracking the motions of cell receptors

Taste, pain, or response to stress — nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the University of B...

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