James Cleland
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Dad | Partner | 🇦🇺 | Postdoc in liver sex differences at
@dkfz.bsky.social
@embl.org
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The Francis Crick Institute
3 days ago
Thanks to His Royal Highness Prince William for visiting the Crick today to explore how education, research and innovation are helping to deliver benefits in the UK and across the world – from antimicrobial resistance to the biology underlying our mental health. 🔗
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology
9 days ago
4D Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Dynamic Morphogenetic Gradients and Regenerative Domains in Planarians
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706529v1
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Hanh Vu
11 days ago
Super excited about this collaboration with
@plantophagy.bsky.social
! We are looking for someone passionate about understanding the cause & consequence relationship between autophagy and regeneration across kingdoms of life. Heidelberg is a great place for science and for living. Come join us!!!
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Yasin Dagdas
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Pls RT‼️
@hanhtkvu.bsky.social
lab
@embl.org
& we
@cosheidelberg.bsky.social
are looking for a
#postdoc
to study
#regeneration
x
#autophagy
across kingdoms of life.
www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested.
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HEALTH + LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE | Interinstitutional Postdocs
https://www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunities/postdocs/
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The
@odomlab.bsky.social
at
@dkfz.bsky.social
is recruiting postdocs! Feel free to reach out if you want inside info from a current (and happy) one. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit.
jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Sex-Biased Cancer Development
https://jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/168309/postdoctoral-researcher-in-sex-biased-cancer-development
about 1 month ago
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Pavel Barahtjan
about 1 month ago
We have several Master’s thesis projects available in the D’Angelo lab, spanning different areas of lipid biology/biochemistry. If you know someone who might be interested, we’d really appreciate you sharing this.
#lipidtime
www.epfl.ch/labs/dangelo...
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Master Projects
DANGELOLAB
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/dangelo-lab/open-positions/
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Adam Schwarz
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The
@odomlab.bsky.social
at
@dkfz.bsky.social
is recruiting postdocs! Feel free to reach out if you want inside info from a current (and happy) one. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit.
jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Sex-Biased Cancer Development
https://jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/168309/postdoctoral-researcher-in-sex-biased-cancer-development
about 1 month ago
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Justin Crocker
about 1 month ago
The call for Health + Life Science Alliance post doctoral fellowships has just opened:
lnkd.in/dw9zxKSN
. Joint with my group
@embl.org
, Victoria Ingham Uni. Heidelberg, and Felix Hol at Radboud Univ., we are exploring how climate and chemistry shape mosquito behaviour for next-gen. vector control
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James Cleland
Holthuis Lab
about 1 month ago
Modern lipid biology has grown far beyond its roots. Advanced technologies offer novel opportunities to unravel the role of lipids in the organization of biological systems. Build on this momentum and join The EMBO Workshop "The Lipid Code to Life" Sept 7-11, 2026
meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
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James Cleland
EMBL Events
about 2 months ago
Don't forget to submit your abstract for
#EESSexDifferences
by 19 January:
s.embl.org/ees26-07-bl
This new symposium will explore how sex influences health and disease through genetic, hormonal, immune, metabolic, and environmental factors 🧬 🗓️ 27 – 30 Apr 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual
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Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim
3 months ago
Get ready to apply for the next round of ExploreTech! The funding line offers grants for innovative projects to foster the use and advancement of core infrastructures across the seven Alliance institutions. More info on our website:
https://www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunities/exploretech/
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Carrie Adler
3 months ago
To all current/future planarian enthusiasts: The next installment of the North American Planarian Meeting will occur in June 2026 in Ithaca, New York. We welcome anyone who wants to participate, organized by me and Chris Petersen (Northwestern). Please share far and wide.
napm2026.weebly.com
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Anna Czarkwiani
3 months ago
Can't believe my postdoc paper is finally out. Christmas came early this year, holy moly 🎄 Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl | Science Immunology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl
The molecular, cellular, and functional restoration of the axolotl thymus after de novo regeneration is described.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adw9903
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Two heads are better than one, unless you’re a land planarian trying to find some grub. FORCE pilot project - check! Video credit: Daniel Stoga
#nightscience
#WormWednesday
@hanhtkvu.bsky.social
@aikmi.bsky.social
@embldbunit.bsky.social
@martaalvarez.bsky.social
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to the trainees in the audience: this is how not to behave on social media
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3 months ago
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Thrilled to have
@hymanlab.bsky.social
at the helm of EMBL… exciting times ahead.
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3 months ago
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Edda Schulz
3 months ago
📣 SAVE THE DATE Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers
@dandergassen.bsky.social
@marnieblewitt.bsky.social
@heard65.bsky.social
@crougeulle.bsky.social
@sexchrlab.bsky.social
@zhouqi1982.bsky.social
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James Cleland
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
4 months ago
🚀 Thinking about your next big career step in science? The Int'l PhD Program at DKFZ could be a perfect fit for you. 🌍 Work in an international environment, with 500+ doctoral researchers 🔬 Do cutting-edge cancer research Curious? Join our online info session on 20 Nov. Register here:
t1p.de/ws7q3
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BioMed X
5 months ago
New Call for Applications! Shaping the future of
#women’s
#health
🚀
#BioMedX
&
#GatesFoundation
join forces to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in biomedical research: female-controlled, non-hormonal contraception. Submit your proposal via our CareerSpace:
career.bmedx.com/call/2025-XF...
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beautiful work!! congrats to all the authors
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5 months ago
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
5 months ago
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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couldn't agree more! and if you choose planarians, also patience and pain tolerance 😅
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Nature Cell Biology
5 months ago
💫NEW:
@telemanlab.bsky.social
& co demonstrate that
#AMPK
can be activated by signaling metabolite,
#adenosine
, under non-stress conditions during
#Drosophila
development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF
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Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology
Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
https://bit.ly/4gX6njF
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI
5 months ago
The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, its duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 26 pairs of chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
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Saez-Rodriguez Group
5 months ago
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK). Focus: methods to study cell–cell communication from sc/spatial omics data (building on LIANA+ and NicheNet), in collab with
@yvansaeys.bsky.social
VIB/Ghent. Details & apply by 13/10/25:
tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
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Current Vacancies
Whether you're a scientist, IT specialist, accountant or administrator, you'll help us tackle the challenges of improving human health & biodiversity in the face of climate change on a global scal...
https://tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
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James Cleland
The Francis Crick Institute
5 months ago
Listen to our director Edith Heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - discussing her career, working with AI and the importance of attracting the best global scientific talent to the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Woman's Hour - Child benefit cap, Prof Edith Heard, Book banning - BBC Sounds
We look at the mounting pressure to scrap the two child benefit cap.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jtts
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EMBL
5 months ago
EMBL scientists found metabolism controls embryonic development tempo through signalling in a way separate from its established metabolic function. More research related to this signalling could illuminate how it guides cell fate, developmental timing -- even disease.
www.embl.org/news/science...
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When metabolism provides more than fuel | EMBL
A new study observed the key signalling role that metabolism plays in controlling the tempo of development.
https://www.embl.org/news/science-technology/when-metabolism-provides-more-than-fuel/
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
5 months ago
Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 →
www.mpg.de/directors
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Directors
The Max Planck Society offers Directors a unique platform for groundbreaking research and leadership in diverse scientific fields.
https://www.mpg.de/directors
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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab
6 months ago
Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here:
lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department:
mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
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Saez-Rodriguez Group
6 months ago
Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. 🔗 Manuscript:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code:
partipy.readthedocs.io
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Ewan Birney
6 months ago
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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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...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Heidelberg/Group-Leader---AI-in-Biology_JR2234
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Great meeting! The field is young and full of energy, hope and opportunity. Join us.
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6 months ago
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James Cleland
The Francis Crick Institute
6 months ago
Edith Heard our new CEO shares ten lessons from her life in science, from curiosity, courage and coffee to the secrets of our genetic code.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
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Edith Heard life lessons
Edith Heard, the Crick’s new Director and CEO, shares ten lessons from a life in science, spanning curiosity, courage, coffee, and the secrets of our genetic code.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09-09_edith-heard-life-lessons
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Beautiful work lead by one of the best (and most humble) developmental biologists I know,
@bruvellu.bsky.social
. Congrats to the whole crew!
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6 months ago
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Denis Duboule
6 months ago
‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof.
@neilshubin.bsky.social
, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof
@college-de-france.fr
. in Paris
@psl-univ.bsky.social
. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁
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EMBL
6 months ago
📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences!
bit.ly/47mmiFF
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James Briscoe
6 months ago
Exciting day for
@crick.ac.uk
today: Edith Heard takes over as Director We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
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Edith Heard
https://www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-structure/board/scientific-advisory-board/edith-heard
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Bret Pearson
6 months ago
It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
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Post Doc Portal | OHSU
https://postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/post-doctoral-scholar/job?mode=view&mobile=false&width=1252&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-480&jun1offset=-420
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Saez-Rodriguez Group
6 months ago
We present our MetaProViz
#Rpackage
for
#metabolomics
analysis & prior knowledge integration to generate mechanistic hypotheses on how metabolic changes affect metabolite classes, pathways & environment interaction 🔗
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📦
saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/
🧵 Thread ⬇️
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Gautam Dey
6 months ago
Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ExM
#PlanetaryCellBiology
🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
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Karsten Rippe
6 months ago
Happy to report that the Xenium system for spatial transcriptomics in the Single Cell Open Lab
www.dkfz.de/en/single-ce...
@dkfz.bsky.social
was the first one worldwide to pass the mark of 100 runs according to
@10xgenomics.bsky.social
. And it keeps on running with another one, so stay tuned...
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Single-cell Open Lab - German Cancer Research Center
https://www.dkfz.de/en/single-cell-open-lab
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Moritz Mall
6 months ago
🚨
@dkfz.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 — Postdoc opening (Mall Lab) Work at the interface of neurodevelopment, epigenetic repression & cancer neuroscience. Apply:
jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1679...
#Postdoc
#Plasticity
#Neurodegeneration
#CancerNeuroscience
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Milena Schuhmacher
7 months ago
We are hiring! If you are looking for a postdoc position and you are interested in signaling lipids and proteomics, come join us in beautiful Switzerland! More information on
www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schu...
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Open positions
GR-SCHUHMACHER
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schuhmacher/open-positions/
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Eileen Furlong
7 months ago
Open Team Leader position
@embl.org
to head & reshape our Genomics Core facility. Interested in providing & developing state-of-the art omics tech to a wide community? A very vibrant, dynamic place to work with fantastic colleagues. Closing Sept 30th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Team Leader – Genomics Core Facility and Method Development
Are you ready to lead a cutting-edge Genomics Core facility while developing state of the art genomics methods? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking talented scientists to develop and lead a cutting-edge G...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Team-Leader---Genomics-Core-Facility-and-Method-Development_JR2103
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jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1679...
@dkfz.bsky.social
is a great place to be a postdoc! feel free to reach out if you have questions & please RT
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DKFZ Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
https://jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/167972/dkfz-postdoctoral-fellowships-2025
7 months ago
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Stegle Lab
7 months ago
We're seeking a PhD student passionate about ML, biology, and driving impact in healthcare! You'll be working on multi-omics factorization models for personalized medicine, co-supervised by
@junyanlu.bsky.social
. 👉 Project:
www.helmholtz.de/assets/hidss...
✍️ Apply:
hidss4health.de/application
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Application - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy
https://hidss4health.de/application
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
7 months ago
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️
mpg.de/directors
- Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
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Typas Lab
7 months ago
Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!
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Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/details/Group-Leader----Molecular-Systems-Biology-Unit_JR2062
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Eileen Furlong
7 months ago
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...
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Group-Leader---Genome-Biology-Unit_JR2069
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