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Tune H Pers

@tunepers.bsky.social

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Group leader @metabolcenter.bsky.social and affil. with @broadinstitute.org Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease. Interested in brain control of metabolism using #hypothalamus #in-vivo/vitro/silico-models #singlecell #genetics #machinelearning.

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Mar 3

New preprint on a cross-species atlas of the dorsal vagal complex and neural mediators of cagrilintide’s effects on energy balance @metabolcenter.bsky.social
>580,000 cells mapping to 89 rat, mice and rhesus macaque cell populations!

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

#Neuroscience #Obesity

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · 14d

Remember to sign up for the Gut-Brain Axis @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting in March 2026!

Upcoming deadlines:
Scholarship Deadline: November 18, 2025
Short Talk Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2025

Organizers: Martin G. Myers, Jr., Darleen A. Sandoval and Tune H Pers

keysym.us/KSGutBrain26

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · 15d

Program: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/v2f-2025

Live stream: Broad.io/V2FSymposiumLive

Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · 15d

🙌 This one is definitely not in my current collection!

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Marie K Holt @mkbholt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Assistant Prof/Associate Prof position in Mammalian Neuroscience! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

My department is hiring! Closing on June 30th.

Please repost widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK944/a...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Mammalian Neuroscience (110565-0625) at University of Warwick

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · May 21

We are looking for a post-doc/research fellow working on non-bullshit, reality-centered AI.

Meaning: unique nationwide EHR and -omics with the possibility to recontact people and prospectively test multimodal AI approaches.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

@FIMM_UH @FinnGen_FI

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EMBO @embo.org · May 22

Join an interdisciplinary workshop exploring the latest advances in #CRISPRCas – spanning #genomics to #StructuralBiology – at EMBO Workshop "CRISPR-Cas: From biology to therapeutic applications" in Sorrento, Italy, 2–5 November 2025

Deadline: 30 June

buff.ly/LsAMHk2
#EMBOCRISPRcas #EMBOevents 🧪

CRISPR-Cas: From biology to therapeutic applications

A decade of groundbreaking research on bacterial CRISPR-Cas defence systems has culminated in the development of revolutionary editing technologies. This tool has been exploited to create transgenic …

buff.ly

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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · May 16

📣 🥳 🧑‍💻 Our department is hiring:

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark

Deadline June 1st

Thanks for sharing!

mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

mbg.au.dk

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · May 16

What cutting science and biomedical grants mean for the nation...

www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation

The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

www.npr.org

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Apr 2

📍 The summer course will be held at th beautiful Sandbjerg Estate in Denmark (www.sandbjerg.dk/en-gb)
💶 4719 DKK (~632 EUR) covers full stay + meals!
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
🌍 Also includes a unique interdisciplinary “language exchange workshop.”

It will be fun!

https://smartbiomed.dk/news-and-event…

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School!
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩‍🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...

https://smartbiomed.dk/news-and-event…

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · May 6

The NYT coverage of these news www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/h...

N.I.H. Bans New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad

www.nytimes.com

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Christoffer Clemmensen @clemmensenc.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our latest review, led by @anikavear.bsky.social with Michael Heneka, explores the emerging role of incretin-based therapies in neurodegenerative disease treatment www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Incretin-based therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases - Nature Metabolism

This Review summarizes preclinical and clinical evidence highlighting the potential of incretin-based drugs as treatments of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s dise...

www.nature.com

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · May 4

"NIH will not retroactively revise ongoing awards to remove foreign subawards at this time."

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

NOT-OD-25-104: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards NOT-OD-25-104. NIH

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · May 2

“…the NIH won’t issue any new grants that include subawards to foreign institutions. However, the agency “will not retroactively revise ongoing awards to remove foreign subawards at this time,” according to the notice….”

www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns

NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding

www.statnews.com

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · May 2

These are not good news for us foreigners who are (or plan to be) co-PI an NIH grants @altnih4science.bsky.social. Anybody who knows whether they plan to terminate ongoing R01 grants?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants

Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

www.nature.com

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join us in Santander (Spain) on June 23–27 for the Summer School on Neurotechnology at #UIMP2025
Science, medicine, market, ethics..with talks by Rafael Yuste, Jose Carmena, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Ander Ramos, Carolina Aguilar, Carmen Sandi, Andres Lozano &Pieter Roelfsema
www.uimp.es/agenda-link....

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Apr 7

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our Metabolism Day 2025 talks can now be watched on-demand! @cbmr.science 🌱

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Metabolism Day 2025 - YouTube

Videos of keynote talks at Metabolism Day 2025, a conference about energy control and metabolism, held at the University of Copenhagen on March 11, 2025.

www.youtube.com

Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to announce our 5th Danish Single-Cell Symposium, incl:

Paolo Cadinu - Harvard Medical School
Xin Jin Scripps Research, UCSD
Karl Mechtler Vienna BioCenter, IMP
Nigel B. Jamieson University of Glasgow
Marek Bartosovic Stockholm University
Laura Hinte ETH Zurich

events.au.dk/5thdanishsin...

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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · Mar 11

If you missed Metabolism Day #MD25, @cbmr.science you can catch the talks here! m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUi9...

Metabolism Day 2025

YouTube video by CBMR at the University of Copenhagen

m.youtube.com

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 11

We're hiring Pioneer Fellow Postdocs!!

Join us at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed to develop innovative methods in epidemiology, biostatistics, and statistical genetics, working with big biomedical data.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

#StatGen #Epi #Postdoc #SMARTbiomed

Postdocs in Epidemiology or Statistical Genetics at The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Public Health - NCRR - National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Mar 11

Metabolism Day 2025 with >600 in-person and online attendees. Fun to meet so many friends, old and new colleagues in Copenhagen today #MD25

Live stream:
www.youtube.com/live/oUi9JU_...

Program: eventsignup.ku.dk/metabolismda...

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Mar 11

Metabolism Day 2025 is on! Join in online now:
www.youtube.com/live/oUi9JU_...

Today's Program: eventsignup.ku.dk/metabolismda...

@cbmr.science

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Mar 7

One of the best summer schools I've attended - an inspiring, uniquely structured program with as many students as world leaders in genetics. Still in close contact with many of the fellow students and mentors/PIs.

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Tune H Pers @tunepers.bsky.social · Mar 6

I am interested, can I join your lab? ;)