Steve Kembel
@skembel.bsky.social
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Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC)
about 2 months ago
CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here:
tinyurl.com/33c5av46
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Steve Kembel
Leducq Lab
about 2 months ago
Our article on the dark matter in the
#phyllosphere
in Systematic and applied Microbiology!
#methylobacterium
#lichenibacterium
#lichenifustis
#lichenihabitans
and even more to discover in
#Hyphomicrobiales
(former Rhizobiales) inhabiting leave surfaces!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A phylogenomic and metagenomic meta-analysis of bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere lifts a veil on hyphomicrobiales dark matter
The phyllosphere, or above-ground part of plants, hosts diverse bacterial communities that play critical ecological roles and provide beneficial funct…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0723202026000056?via%3Dihub
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Steve Kembel
La Presse
2 months ago
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Immigration | Des professeurs recrutés laissés de côté par le nouveau système
Alejandro Morales a été recruté par l’UQAM à l’issue d’un processus de sélection où plus de 200 candidats étaient en lice. Pourtant, ce professeur de mathématiques de 41 ans, originaire de la Colombie, est à peu près certain de ne jamais recevoir d’invitation à déposer une demande de résidence permanente dans le cadre du Programme de sélection des travailleurs qualifiés (PSTQ).
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/education/2026-01-29/immigration/des-professeurs-recrutes-laisses-de-cote-par-le-nouveau-systeme.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=accueil
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Steve Kembel
André Picard @picardonhealth
5 months ago
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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@theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-science-research-grants-mp-parliament-committee-dei/
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Nicolas Marcotte
6 months ago
Je ne suis pas raciste mais… je fais campagne pour démanteler un moyen de transport écologique, économique, efficace et surtout qui diminue la congestion routière.
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Steve Kembel
Leducq Lab
8 months ago
Check out our preprint on
#Methylobacterium
’s relative,
#Lichenibacterium
(aka 1174-901-12), my new favorite bacteria from the
#phyllosphere
! Thanks to
@skembel.bsky.social
and our students David Ross and Louis-Philippe St-Amand for this work!
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Come join us at UQAM! We're hiring a postdoc to work on using metagenomics to identify microbial biomarkers to improve the efficacy of GDNF treatment for Hirschsprung disease. More info here :
kembellab.ca/postdoctoral...
#microbiome
#raredisease
#metagenomics
#postdoc
#genomics
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Postdoctoral position: Microbial biomarkers to improve the efficacy of GDNF treatment for Hirschsprung disease – Kembel @ UQAM
https://kembellab.ca/postdoctoral-position-microbial-biomarkers-to-improve-the-efficacy-of-gdnf-treatment-for-hirschsprung-disease/
over 1 year ago
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