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Smita Gopinath
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Microbiologist and immunologist working on the vaginal Microbiome. Sci-fi enthusiast.
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Such a cool project that will open a lot of doors to studying menstrual biology! Congrats @karalmckinley.bsky.social , @cagricevrim.bsky.social and all authors.
October 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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ewanbirney.bsky.social
A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Application – EMBL International PhD Programme
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October 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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heran.bsky.social
We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783
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October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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blackinmicro.bsky.social
🌟 Join us for the #BlackInMicro Research Symposium on October 15, 2025. We are excited to feature 25 early career speakers! Don't miss out - sign up here: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro or click the link in our bio!
Black in Micro Week 2025 Early Career Research Symposium held on October 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 12 PM EST. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus. Early Career Research Symposium featuring Aureliana Filomena Chambal Chilengue, Hassan Abbas, Nazik Elmekki, Immaculata Chika Ede, Audrey Randall, and Justin Durunyamunwu. Topics include tuberculosis transmission analysis using reference-free clustering, gut microbiota comparisons in ulcerative colitis, fitness determinants of Phocaeicola vulgatus, wound biofilm modeling, the role of Parabacteroides distasonis in type I diabetes, and microvascular modeling in dengue virus research. Early Career Research Symposium showcasing presenters howcasing presenters Nadia Holness, Deus Kamya, Trinity Moore, Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye, Drea Darby, and Teni Shosanya. Topics include the role of Staphylococcus aureus in skin inflammation, the impact of Candida albicans on oral epithelial cells, the role of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron in gut inflammation, the effect of Enterococcus faecalis on colorectal cancer, the influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae on lung immunity, and the use of Escherichia coli in synthetic biology applications. Early Career Research Symposium with additional presenters. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus.
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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prakashlab.bsky.social
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To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
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September 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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garushyants.bsky.social
hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
September 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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contaminatedsci.bsky.social
We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.

We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.

Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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sarsarela.bsky.social
We’re hiring a Postdoc on Gut Microbiome–Host Interactions @leibniz-hki.de, Jena 🇩🇪

You'll create organ-on-chip models to study how microbes mediate host responses to xenobiotics

jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Gut Microbiome Host Interactions at Leibniz HKI Jobportal
Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena
jobs.hki-jena.de
August 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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gibbological.bsky.social
You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.

Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization | mSystems
In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...
journals.asm.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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maxperutzlabs.ac.at
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Abstract deadline for short talks is Sep 23, but abstracts for posters will be accepted until Dec 30.
July 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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kheegster.bsky.social
At Kavli IPMU, we have openings for postdocs who were displaced from their previous jobs for whatever reason.

Please consider if this is applicable! IPMU is an international research institute working on astro, math and physics, with English as the working language.

www.ipmu.jp/en/job-oppor...
Special Postdoctoral Positions for displaced scientists (2025)
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), WPI at the University of Tokyo solicits applications for its special Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
www.ipmu.jp
June 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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chulab.bsky.social
If you're at #ASMicrobe, check out @reneeoles.bsky.social's talk on Monday morning:

Session EEB-IDS-501 - Evolution in Microbiomes Across Environments

Adaptive Evolution of Bacteroides fragilis under Oxidative Stress Modulates Iron Metabolism and Intensifies Host Inflammatory Responses

#asm2025
Session EEB-IDS-501 - Evolution in Microbiomes Across Environments Adaptive Evolution of Bacteroides fragilis under Oxidative Stress Modulates Iron Metabolism and Intensifies Host Inflammatory Responses Add to Itinerary June 23, 2025, 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM 402AB, LACC
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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blackinmicro.bsky.social
Hands up #BlackInMicro Early Career Researchers!! 🙌🏾👩🏽‍🔬👨🏾‍💻🧑🏾‍🔬 We are now accepting abstracts for the ECR Symposium on Wed. October 15, on Careers & Research Day. Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by July 8, 11.59PM EST! #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch
BMA invites abstract submissions from early career researchers for the Early Career Research Symposium on Career & Research Day! Including undergraduates, all the way up to junior faculty/managers across academic, industry and government sectors. Submit your abstract today at tinyurl.com/BIM-abstract25. Abstracts due July 8, 11.59PM EST. This will be a virtual symposium.
June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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alt-thenci.bsky.social
Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky
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June 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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microbeminded.bsky.social
Opening for a #postdoc in the lab available immediately. Please spread the word.

DETAILS HERE: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c...

cc: #academicJobs #postdocJobs #microbiome #Celegans #organoids #IBD #PathSky #Medsky #AcademicSky 🧪 🧬 🦠
Postdoctoral Associate in IBD genetics in C. elegans and organoids
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May 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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rafalmostowy.bsky.social
I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland).

Drop me a line if it sounds cool!

Deadline: 20.06.

Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
May 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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cmeignin.bsky.social
📣 Junior PI Opportunity
Join CNRS Strasbourg to lead cutting-edge research on host-pathogen interactions in insects 🪰
450k€ package | Drosophila, RNA, immunity
IBMC + Labex NetRNA network
📅 Apply by June 30, 2025
🔗 ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
#RNA #Insects #Drosophila #NetRNA #Immunity #JobAlert
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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ejvillablanca.bsky.social
A postdoctoral position in computational biology is open in our lab!

"Molecular and cellular circuits in the gastrointestinal tract
using spatial multi-omics approaches"

Apply here 👇

ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Postdoctoral studies in single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics and computational biology (scholarship)
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?  A postdoctoral position to study the proteotranscriptomic landscape of intestinal tissue regeneration, with clear implications for intestin
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May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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baym.lol
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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May 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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anniewaldman.bsky.social
We are continuing to look into grant terminations at the NIH, and we want to hear from you.

Please reach out to us with your experiences: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
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May 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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campylobacterlab.bsky.social
Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀
May 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM