One of my childhood heroes. An incredible woman.

UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics will soon post openings for tenure-track junior faculty positions! Information about the search is at this website: www.med.unc.edu/biochem/join.... The link to apply will be shared here too as soon as it's live. Join us!

Are you interested in working on related projects? 🌱 The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position. Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs

We ARE…HIRING POSTDOCS!! The Hedglin Lab at PSU is looking for PhD graduates interested in biophysical & kinetic investigations of human DNA replication pathways. Further details of the position are below. Please spread the word & DM with any questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

We were one of the lucky ones to receive our NCI award. We have an open postdoctoral fellow or research tech position in the group. If you (or anyone you know) has strong expertise in structural biology or cell biology (genomic instability mechanisms) please reach out. www.antonylab.org

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I am very grateful that my department has decided to support me in my transition into an independent investigator position (wherever that might be) by naming me a Destination Biochemistry Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

Advertisements for 2 tenure-track assistant professor positions at Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences: www.nature.com/naturecareer... www.nature.com/naturecareer...

NYT: “Spain is proving an important point: A generous immigration policy is not a threat to the nation or to a thriving economy. More than that, it is a resource for growth and renewal that Spain’s peers spurn at their cost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

“Pero, ¿toda esa gente sale a la vez?“, una crónica del descenso del Sella desde Arriondas. La 87ª edición del Descenso Internacional del río asturiano fue multitudinaria, festiva y muy (pero muy) asturiana social.elpais.com/4rcgq6

Life finds a way

It feels wild to post this, given the state of things, but I just got the NoA for my first NIH grant ever, a K99/R00 award from the NIEHS! I will be studying the role of bacterial error-prone DNA polymerases in mutagenesis and the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨ We’re currently collecting nominations! This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇

Creo que estamos confundiendo a nuestra juventud con una oferta a todas luces excesiva de grados con nombres a cual más atractivo, cuando en realidad deberíamos apostar por grados genéricos y transversales, dejando la especialización para el máster y tesis. #biología 💪 elpais.com/educacion/20...

Recognizing the importance of language accessibility in science and scientific communication, I have translated this work into Spanish. You can find the Spanish translation in Supplementary file 3!

I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains. elifesciences.org/articles/102...

🦠 El pasado viernes contamos en el @ipblncsic.bsky.social con la visita de @jucarvag.bsky.social investigador en la Universidad de Vanderbilt para hablarnos sobre los mecanismos moleculares implicados en la evolución y aparición de #resistencia a #antibióticos en bacterias💊 ¡Muchas gracias!👏

On the shoulders of giants

24 years waiting…just a few seconds more…

Really proud of PhD Candidate Carl Stone, advocating for science and scientific funding by wiring this opinion piece for his hometown newspaper in Minnesota.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest academic research and hospital care systems in the southeast, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and other funding cuts made by the Trump Administration, it said in a statement. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.

📢 Headed to #Evol2025? Before Saturday afternoon’s Scopes Trial sessions, swing by our booth! Come learn about Vanderbilt's role... and what we’re doing now! #ScopesTrial #ScopesSwag

Hágase

Awesome paper from Jason Yang's lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited our paper is out! G-quadruplex (G4) unwinding via an intricate G-loop assembly and disassembly mechanism maintains genome integrity. Pioneered by Koichi Sato with great collaborators Jing Lyu and @simonelsasser.bsky.social Check it out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0493 🧵(1/4)

How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What do monkey trials, pandemics & climate change have in common? This July, Vanderbilt becomes the epicenter of science, #history & #evolution. #Scopes100 #ISEMPH2025 @ncse.bsky.social @evmed.bsky.social https://loom.ly/aSQj4PQ

Are there going to be positions in the fall for tenure-track Assistant Professors? (Cell biology, reproductive biology, molecular biology, genetics...) Asking for a friend. Well, myself and a lot of my fellow postdoc friends.

We are not

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... new preprint on predicting antifungal drug resistance in yeasts is out!

First Bluesky post! I'm excited to share a preprint from my postdoctoral work where we 1) define the developmental mechanisms guiding formation of a vagal gut-brain circuit and 2) discover that this circuit regulates much more than just appetite. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Un 7% de los aficionados del FC Barcelona verán así el partido de semifinales de la Champions, debido a su #daltonismo Los equipos de fútbol deberían tener en cuenta esto antes de jugar con una camiseta verde claro sobre el césped verde. Simulación obtenida con #simdaltonism

Repost w/ correct link! The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is sponsoring the Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics symposium! - We are seeking nominations bu June 1. - September 18-19, 2025 - Please share with the star postdocs that you know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

In developing embryos, cells move a lot! Plenty of that movement is random. Is random cell mixing a feature or bug for tissue patterning? Turns out, it’s both! Excited to share the 1st preprint from my postdoc w/ Sean Megason @seanemcgeary.bsky.social and Allon Klein. 1/20 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge congratulations to my @uncchapelhill.bsky.social colleague Bob Goldstein for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bob is a brilliant developmental biologist who works on #Celegans, & on tardigrades (water bears). As if that's not enough, he's an amazing artist too!

Our study exploring the evolutionary mechanism of alphavirus opal codon retention is now online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ha muerto un pedacito de Asturias.

Excited to share our new pre-print. Direct, ensemble FRET assays developed by our lab reveal that assembly of Rad51 filaments at stalled replication sites via RPA/Rad51 exchange causes complete & irreversible PCNA unloading. Big implications for interplay between human DNA damage tolerance pathways

Currently in the lab due to an issue with a -80, how can anyone not love this job...

It seems like the NIEHS Council is meeting on April 22nd to discuss grant applications www.niehs.nih.gov/about/boards... Nothing on the Federal Register yet.

Hearing about some US universities advising their international scientists (green card holders & visa holders) not to leave the US for the time being for fear that re-entry will be non-trivial even with all the necessary documents in hand. Is this happening at your institution?

Instead, they are planning to go ahead with their long (years ago) scheduled May-June meetings where they will catch up on all of the applications that they can. I am trying to understand why this is being done. More delays. Longer uncertainty. Less cash flow. Any insights appreciated. DM me. 2/2

ATTENTION: ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS Nothing posted yet in the Federal Register I had heard that at least some institutes and centers had tentatively scheduled "make-up" meetings in April but are no longer planning these. 1/2

Though all of scientific research is sitting under the gun, the most vulnerable among us are our postdocs. The nations 72,000 postdocs often go unnoticed in national discourse but are essential to the American research enterprise across all disciplines. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p...