Josh Waterfall
@joshwaterfall.bsky.social
Inserm researcher and group leader at Institut Curie. Linking cancer immunity, immunotherapy, transcription, and AI/ML. https://institut-curie.org/team/waterfall
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Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025 - Institut Curie
Find Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025. The Institut Curie is the leading center for research and the fight against cancer in France.
institut-curie.org
Interested in the relationship between the developing immune system and pediatric cancer ? Come join us for the first Paris Kids Cancer symposium June 5/6 institut-curie.org/symposium-pa... @institutcurie.bsky.social @aphp.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social
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Join the advanced international course on
"Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy"
at the @institutcurie.bsky.social
January 28th - 30th , 2026
training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
"Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy"
at the @institutcurie.bsky.social
January 28th - 30th , 2026
training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy | Institut Curie Advanced Training
This course aims to synthesize the state-of-the-art and the therapeutic perspectives related to harnessing children's immune system to target pediatric tumors. Encompassing topics from biological char...
training.institut-curie.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Join the advanced international course on
"Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy"
at the @institutcurie.bsky.social
January 28th - 30th , 2026
training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
"Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy"
at the @institutcurie.bsky.social
January 28th - 30th , 2026
training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
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📣 Registration for the next international course at
@institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025.
🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026
▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
@institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025.
🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026
▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📣 Registration for the next international course at
@institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025.
🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026
▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
@institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025.
🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026
▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
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The Metagraph paper is out in Nature; it showed up in my feeds today! Congratulations to Mikhail Karasikov, @gxxxr.bsky.social, @akkah21.bsky.social and all of the other authors (whom I'd love to follow on Bluesky if I can find you ;P) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories - Nature
MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Metagraph paper is out in Nature; it showed up in my feeds today! Congratulations to Mikhail Karasikov, @gxxxr.bsky.social, @akkah21.bsky.social and all of the other authors (whom I'd love to follow on Bluesky if I can find you ;P) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔥 Mark the date! 🗓️
Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived.
Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden.
Submit your abstract.
Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026.
meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived.
Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden.
Submit your abstract.
Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026.
meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
Pathogen Immunity and Signalling
Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens pose a serious threat to human health, requiring a coordinated response from the innate and adaptive immune systems. Our immune system relies on pathogen recept…
meetings.embo.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔥 Mark the date! 🗓️
Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived.
Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden.
Submit your abstract.
Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026.
meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived.
Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden.
Submit your abstract.
Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026.
meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
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Slowly and tediously, even the rich and powerful can be taken down in functional democracies. This is the third conviction for Sarkozy (and his acolytes). This should encourage other democracies in difficult situations to keep hoping for justice to prevail.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Former French president Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libyan campaign financing trial – Europe live
Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of conspiracy, but innocent of other charges, in case surrounding millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Slowly and tediously, even the rich and powerful can be taken down in functional democracies. This is the third conviction for Sarkozy (and his acolytes). This should encourage other democracies in difficult situations to keep hoping for justice to prevail.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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EWS::WT1 Isoform-Dependent Regulation of Neogenes in Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.676906v1
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
EWS::WT1 Isoform-Dependent Regulation of Neogenes in Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.676906v1
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Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.
3/4
3/4
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.
3/4
3/4
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Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Congratulations to @danafarber.bsky.social’s Cathy Wu, MD, who was selected by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer as the recipient of the 2026 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship.
➡️ bit.ly/4octIB3
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July 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congratulations to @danafarber.bsky.social’s Cathy Wu, MD, who was selected by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer as the recipient of the 2026 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship.
➡️ bit.ly/4octIB3
➡️ bit.ly/4octIB3
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The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course!
Apply now! Free to attend!
Apply now! Free to attend!
Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
July 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course!
Apply now! Free to attend!
Apply now! Free to attend!
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Twice in one day I find myself without words...
June 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Twice in one day I find myself without words...
So glad to have played a small part in this story. Great work @manellab.bsky.social !
Thrilled to share our latest @cp-cell.bsky.social.
We present VICAR (VIral-induced Centromeric DNA Amplification and Recognition), a new defense system to detect viruses in the nucleus based on nuclear cGAS.
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
We present VICAR (VIral-induced Centromeric DNA Amplification and Recognition), a new defense system to detect viruses in the nucleus based on nuclear cGAS.
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Centromeric DNA amplification triggered by viral proteins activates nuclear cGAS
Herpesvirus proteins disrupt centromeres, triggering centromeric DNA amplification
and local nuclear activation of the nucleic acid sensor cGAS. This reveals an immune
surveillance mechanism in the nu...
www.cell.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So glad to have played a small part in this story. Great work @manellab.bsky.social !
PhD opportunity in a great lab at a great institute !
### PhD position alert ###
Please repost!
I'm excited to announce a new *PhD position* within our group.
We are looking for a super-motivated candidate with a solid basis in wet- and dry-lab research. Apply now & make sure to include all docs!
werkenbijprinsesmaximacentrum.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please repost!
I'm excited to announce a new *PhD position* within our group.
We are looking for a super-motivated candidate with a solid basis in wet- and dry-lab research. Apply now & make sure to include all docs!
werkenbijprinsesmaximacentrum.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD Position: Unraveling the Dark Proteome in Pediatric Cancer - Werken bij Prinses Maxima Centrum
Background For decades, vast stretches of the genome were dismissed as non-functional ‘junk’. However, our group and others have revealed that these regions harbor numerous non-canonical open reading ...
werkenbijprinsesmaximacentrum.nl
May 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
PhD opportunity in a great lab at a great institute !
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Postdoctoral position in Computational Biology open !
Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases
More info 👇 :
lnkd.in/dQZq55nv
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Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases
More info 👇 :
lnkd.in/dQZq55nv
lnkd.in/d6sbw59P
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Postdoctoral position in Computational Biology open !
Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases
More info 👇 :
lnkd.in/dQZq55nv
lnkd.in/d6sbw59P
Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases
More info 👇 :
lnkd.in/dQZq55nv
lnkd.in/d6sbw59P
Reminder to join us June 5/6 in Paris if you're interested in pediatric immunity and cancer development ! @institutcurie.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @hopitalnecker.bsky.social @institutimagine.bsky.social
Interested in the relationship between the developing immune system and pediatric cancer ? Come join us for the first Paris Kids Cancer symposium June 5/6 institut-curie.org/symposium-pa... @institutcurie.bsky.social @aphp.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social
Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025 - Institut Curie
Find Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025. The Institut Curie is the leading center for research and the fight against cancer in France.
institut-curie.org
April 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Reminder to join us June 5/6 in Paris if you're interested in pediatric immunity and cancer development ! @institutcurie.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @hopitalnecker.bsky.social @institutimagine.bsky.social
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April 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Study Immunology in Paris!
📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases
🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included!
✨ Don’t miss out!
#Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases
🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included!
✨ Don’t miss out!
#Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Study Immunology in Paris!
📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases
🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included!
✨ Don’t miss out!
#Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases
🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included!
✨ Don’t miss out!
#Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
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🔴 Dans un entretien à @lexpress.bsky.social, Yasmine Belkaid DG @pasteur.fr, Bana Jabri DG @institutimagine.bsky.social et Alain Puisieux, Pdt du Directoire de l’Institut Curie, lancent un appel pour défendre la #science face aux menaces qui pèsent sur elle.
➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...
➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...
April 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🔴 Dans un entretien à @lexpress.bsky.social, Yasmine Belkaid DG @pasteur.fr, Bana Jabri DG @institutimagine.bsky.social et Alain Puisieux, Pdt du Directoire de l’Institut Curie, lancent un appel pour défendre la #science face aux menaces qui pèsent sur elle.
➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...
➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...
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For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
Toulouse Welcomes U.S. Researchers Facing Unprecedented Challenges | Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
In response to the targeted and drastic budget cuts threatening scientific research in the United States, the Toulouse academic community is launching an initiative to host researchers whose work is a...
en.univ-toulouse.fr
April 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
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Two days to go until the 3rd LDN Q-Immuno Day at UCL! We are looking forward to welcome you on Thursday for an incredible line-up of speakers. Full schedule now available here: qimmuno.com/ldnday/
LDNQImmuno · April 10th
qimmuno.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Two days to go until the 3rd LDN Q-Immuno Day at UCL! We are looking forward to welcome you on Thursday for an incredible line-up of speakers. Full schedule now available here: qimmuno.com/ldnday/
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13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
pro.inserm.fr
March 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
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📢 permanent research engineer position as leader of the Hub Algorithmics & AI pole at the Institut Pasteur. Come and join us!
More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...
More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...
Permanent research engineer position as Head of Hub Algorithmics & AI pole - Research
The Hub of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics provides analytical support to research units and platforms at the Institut Pasteur. The Hub is committed to this mission through: As head of the Algorithm...
research.pasteur.fr
March 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📢 permanent research engineer position as leader of the Hub Algorithmics & AI pole at the Institut Pasteur. Come and join us!
More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...
More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...
Remember to join us June 5,6 for the first #ParisKidsCancer symposium on #pediatric #immunity and #childhoodcancer Registration open now ! institut-curie.org/symposium-pa...
Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025 - Institut Curie
Find Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025. The Institut Curie is the leading center for research and the fight against cancer in France.
institut-curie.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Remember to join us June 5,6 for the first #ParisKidsCancer symposium on #pediatric #immunity and #childhoodcancer Registration open now ! institut-curie.org/symposium-pa...
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵