🚀 We’re growing! Are you passionate about human pluripotent stem cells? We are looking for 1 PhD student + 1 Lab technician to join us ☀️ ior.usi.ch/institute/jobs

Interested in learning how to be a good speaker and give effective talks? Season 2 of the NYC Postdoc Night Science Club begins October 15th. Join us NYC Postdocs for a 2hr workshop and maybe also a drink at a bar! Free registration (usually ~100 come): docs.google.com/forms/d/1dII...

Do you research endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) or want to learn more about them? 🧬🤔 Consider presenting at or attending AuusiERV - an inaugural online symposium for ERV research in Australia 🇦🇺 (and abroad) 🗺️ Abstracts due 1st October! events.humanitix.com/aussierv-2025 #ERV #retrovirus

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Another neurodegenerative disease caused by an SVA insertion. Not intron retention as seen in XPD, but aberrant splicing.

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our study on the role of LTR5HS and SVAs in regulation of human neural crest migration is now published as peer-reviewed paper on @molsystbiol.org! Congrats to first author brilliant postdoc Laura Deelen, and all the authors involved! @imperialsci.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

My first postdoc paper in @m-vincendeau.bsky.social lab is out in Frontiers in Immunology.🥳 We identified that hepatitis viruses, especially HBV, upregulate specific human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) groups that are linked with autoimmune diseases. doi.org/10.3389/fimm...

Check out our new paper 🎉. Thanks to everyone who was involved 🙏🏻.

My first first-author paper is out!🎉 Here we propose a model where a silencing complex, PIWI*, assembles on target RNAs to recruit effectors and shut down transposon activity. Huge thanks to the Brennecke and Plaschka labs, especially Julius and Clemens, and all co-authors!

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free workshop on Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona! All organisms included - not only plants ;-) Last chance for registration, don’t miss it! bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

Exciting new study by Polina Oberst and @studerl.bsky.social in @cp-devcell.bsky.social identifies cholesterol imbalance as a convergent mechanism across multiple genetic and environmental factors of major depressive disorder. www.cell.com/developmenta...

"Unmasked: transposable elements as drivers and targets in cancer" by Ting Wang & colleagues "This review synthesizes a growing body of work that positions TEs as both catalysts and antagonists of the tumor state." Check it out! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

🧬Viromics🧬 = using (meta-)genomics to study uncultivated viruses has yielded unprecedented insights into the diversity and global distribution of viruses @jgi.doe.gov's @simrouxvirus.bsky.social and Clement Coclet review the state of the field, available tools, and remaining challenges

🔴 Just out in Nature Communications (@natcomms.nature.com)! 🎉 Thrilled to have contributed to this amazing work from David Landeira's lab (@davidlandeira.bsky.social), with Amador Gallardo as first author. (1/2)

📢 Countdown: 1 month until #Retropath2025! Registration is still open — join us in Tübingen for outstanding keynote lectures + cutting-edge research on #retroviruses and #HERVs. More info 👉 evis.events/event/469/.

Abstract deadline extended!
 Submit your work for the 24th Workshop Immunobiology of Viral Infections
📅 Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2025 | 📍 Bad Salzschlirf
🔗 immunviro.g-f-v.org Keynotes: Daniel Elleder, Anke Kraft, Julia Rebecca Port
 Great talks, posters & networking — don’t miss it!

🔬✨ Introducing: Expert Insights – the new seminar series by the Young Society for Virology! We’ve combined the strengths of our previous “How to” seminar series and the GfV ROUND lunch discussions into one powerful format – Expert Insights. 1/n

🖥️ Join us online – Tuesdays at 2 PM (CET)! Register here: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🚀 Stay ahead, stay connected – and don’t miss our upcoming sessions!

We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

New paper from our lab! We found that LINE-1 transposons contribute to early human brain development. Funded by @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

So, we (Dylan Liabeuf and Anastasiia Maksiuk) are organising the first Berlin symposium on organoids. The objective is to bring together the Berlin organoid community and to develop further interactions. Info: www.bihealth.org/en/notices/b... Free registration: www.bihealth.org/en/news/even...

1/ How do animals develop immunity against a newly encountered transposable element from scratch? Our study reveals that the mobility of TEs is their Achilles heel, allowing hosts to develop a powerful small RNA-mediated silencing response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

Looking forward to this new installment of the Woods Hole Mobile DNA Meeting! Fantastic program, laid-back atmosphere, and gorgeous setting at the Marine Biological Laboratory ⛵️🪼🐋 Abstract submission closes Aug 7 but registration after that date is possible. www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?ev...

Short article on neuronal maturation in the primate cortex with Kent Imaizumi in the lab www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

Fantastic lab with exciting science! Strong recommendation. Apply 👇🏻

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

We developed MouseMapper AI, a deep learning ensemble for the analysis of whole-body systems, including the nervous and immune systems, to map disease/drug perturbations tissue by tissue, organ by organ, at the cellular level in 3D. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

last call! submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!

🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town. Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag. 🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)

Nature research paper: Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes go.nature.com/44YuyIV

Is the annotation of viruses in the human genome accurate? We think not. Take a look at our new paper and let us know if you agree! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧵1/ Introducing Stellarscope: an EM-based tool for quantifying locus-specific transposable element expression in single cells. A single-cell transposable element atlas of human cell identity: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports... @hamarillo.bsky.social #TEHub #singlecell #genomics

Also - Ryan is on the job market for a PI position ([email protected]), so if your department is interested in hiring someone who will be a leader in next generation human PSC-based CNS disease modeling for neuropsychiatric disorders such as SCZ, he is a brilliant choice!

Ryan’s paper out in Neuron (bit.ly/3IICGFX). He derived bona fide parvalbumin (PV+) cortical interneurons from hPSCs, one the slowest developing neurons, and could capturing interneuron-related disease phenotypes linked to schizophrenia - including impaired gamma-oscillations - in his assembloids.

Search for Assistant Professors. 👉🏽 @infect-net.bsky.social @gesvirologie.bsky.social

Looking forward to this Meeting!

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 Group Leaders! NCMBM is looking for early-career researchers ready to establish their independent research groups! 🧬 With an attractive start-up package, help us shape the future of molecular biosciences and medicine in 🇳🇴 and be part of the @nordicembl.bsky.social!

The M1 #Munich #Medicine Alliance aims to strengthen Munich's international reputation as a center for medicine. 👏 At a ceremony marking the founding, politicians, scientists, and medical practitioners emphasized its potential: go.tum.de/706622 📷A. König / StMWK

A dream come true: my first first-author publication! 🧬 🎉 Working to unravel the mysteries of long-range gene regulation has been an incredible journey. Endless gratitude to Evgeny, the lab, and all of the amazing collaborators who helped make this happen 🙌