Dr. Sedona Murphy
@sedonamurphy.bsky.social
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Incoming group leader @mpi-mg, Berlin Chromatin tracing, epigenetics, development. Equity and advocacy in academia.
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pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!
stanford-chemh.bsky.social
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor 

Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation.  

Click the link above to learn more & apply!
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work.
🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications

- £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years
- Tuition fees paid
- Student visa fee & health surcharges covered

Deadline 5 Nov

We have a project available. For all the details visit:

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Briscoe Lab | Cellular Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Vertebrate Development
www.crick.ac.uk
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adrianobolondi.bsky.social
🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD
A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model
Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
And here a News & Views on our work. Thank you @pasquelab.bsky.social and @sherifkhodeer.bsky.social for writing it!
pasquelab.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest News & Views published in Nature! @nature.com
rdcu.be/eI2NJ

Sherif Khodeer and I discuss how stem cell-based embryo models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development.
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biozentrum.unibas.ch
Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
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mdc-bimsb.bsky.social
Passionate about #SystemsBiology and ready to lead your own research group?
Join us at the forefront of discovery — apply now to be a #GroupLeader at the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology, in beautiful Lisbon, PT!

Appl. by Oct 8:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#ScienceJobs #JobOffer
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fabiantheis.bsky.social
🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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trayon.bsky.social
Collectively, we report species-specific differences in protein production and degradation rates and provide *in vivo evidence* that degradative machineries are less active in human embryos than in mice. Finally, we establish a causal role for protein degradation on dev. tempo.

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Protein degradation shapes developmental tempo in mouse and human neural progenitors
The pace of embryonic development differs markedly across mammalian species, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these tempo differences remain largely unknown. Here, we systematically compared pr...
www.biorxiv.org
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molgen.mpg.de
2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics
16 - 18 Feb 2026 at MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
with support by the Weizmann Institute for Science.
Early bird registration until 30 Sep - register now👇
www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
Save-the-date information:
New approaches to Early embryogenesis & epigenetics
February 16 - 18 2026
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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johntngo.bsky.social
🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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aurhin.bsky.social
Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
hoxd13a reporter in a zebrafish larva
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centriolelab.bsky.social
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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laskerfdn.bsky.social
2025 #LaskerAward winner Lucy Shapiro asked: How do living organisms translate information from a linear genetic code into three-dimensional structures?
And with that, she broke open a new field. 🧪
@pnas.org
#Lasker2025 #systemsbiology
The Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science awarded to Lucy Shapiro | PNAS
Scientists can contribute to society in numerous ways. Some scientists discover new biological principles and found entirely new fields. Some scien...
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