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Ecology and evolution in microbes. Assistant Prof. @ LIU Post, native NYer, foodie.
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CARB-X
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📢 CARB-X funding round update! Updated eligibility criteria for cycle two are now available. Review the updated materials to see if your project is eligible. Expressions of Interest may be submitted from 1 Dec. at 10:00 ET – 12 Dec. at 23:59 ET. #IDSky 🧪 🔗 Read here:
bit.ly/4dTKvDj
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Will Ratcliff
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@sacrozhangt.bsky.social
and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
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chieflotsahair
6 days ago
Attendance at my school was really high this week. It didn’t occur to me that it was likely related to food scarcity at home until Friday. We have free lunch and breakfast for all students at school.
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Jeffrey M
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60452-8/fulltext
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Matt Haber
8 days ago
If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab. Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
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The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research
https://tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio2026
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Botanical Society of America
8 days ago
Hey undergrads! Apply for Caltech’s 10-week WAVE Fellows program. -$6K stipend + housing + $1K travel/dining -Apply by Jan 9, 2026:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-Info sessions in November:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
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WAVE Fellows
The 2026 WAVE Fellows award is $6,000 for the ten-week period, plus on-campus housing, and a dining and travel supplement of ~$1000. Caltech housing is available and we strongly encourage all Fellows to live on campus. The 2026 WAVE Fellows program dates are June 15 through August 21.
https://sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduate-research/programs/wavefellows
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Eric Pollitt
15 days ago
Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Our new paper is out!
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist
12 days ago
Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles
@siouxsiew.bsky.social
has launched a fundraising campaign to cover some of the legal fees accrued in taking a case against her employer, the University of Auckland. She explains why.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
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Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle
'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-11-2025/siouxsie-wiles-why-im-crowdfunding-despite-winning-my-legal-battle
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Jens Hör
28 days ago
Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 Please RT!
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I am so excited to have this published today detailing a new system for growing biofilms and observing the resulting populations (stress on the plural!) in chemostats! A chemostat-based model for growing bacterial biofilms | Microbiology Spectrum
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A chemostat-based model for growing bacterial biofilms | Microbiology Spectrum
Biofilms are the predominant way that bacteria live in natural environments and are characterized by three emergent properties: ubiquity, resilience, and impact. They can be found across all environme...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02333-25
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Woke 2.0
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Well, I can see how that ended up on clearance.
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Anne Chevallereau
23 days ago
JOB OFFER
#PhageSky
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions ! We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France
@mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info ! >> Apply on the CNRS webpage
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher Microbiology (M/F)
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5086-ANNCHE-007/Default.aspx?lang=EN
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Gc Rox
24 days ago
Microbiology Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position in Chicago will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested, please get in touch with Hank Seifert
[email protected]
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Christina Burch
about 1 month ago
#microsky
#mevosky
The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Two (2) Open Rank Teaching Faculty
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for two (2) Teaching Faculty positions to be effective July 1, 2026. These positions will be fixed-term 9-...
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307445
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Puhar Lab
about 1 month ago
Our first effort exploring gut bacteria-extracellular ATP interactions is published! We show that eATP rewires gene expression and physiology in harmless and pathogenic bacteria, impacting production of bioactive metabolites, antimicrobial sensitivity, and virulence. A 🧵
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Carl Zimmer
about 1 month ago
Today my
@nytimes.com
colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Kiseok (Keith) Lee
about 1 month ago
Ohio State microbiology department is hiring assistant professor of Microbiome science (due Nov 6). It's an amazing department please apply!! (I would apply if I had more pubs haha...)
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...
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Nanami Kubota
about 1 month ago
Published in Current Biology! P. aeruginosa can use its filamentous phage to inhibit competitors but high phage production is susceptible to cheater miniphage invasion. Subsequent phage tragedy of the commons can lower bacteria and phage fitness. Link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5I3QW8S...
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Rick Steves
about 1 month ago
Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it. 🧵 1/8
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What Extreme Poverty Looks Like
Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.
https://classroom.ricksteves.com/videos/what-extreme-poverty-looks-like
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Vaughn Cooper
about 1 month ago
DYK most P. aeruginosa carry filamentous phage(s) that don't need to kill the cell to reproduce? We 👉🏻@nanamikubota.bsky.social show that these Pf phages can go ROGUE. "Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness" 🔗
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5I3QW8S...
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Craig MacLean
about 2 months ago
New pre-print: Eco-evolutionary responses of phage to different thermal regimes. Great work led by Sam Greenrod and fun collaboration with Kayla King's lab. 1/2
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Evolutionary rescue accelerates competitive exclusion in a parasite community
Environmental stress drives biodiversity loss by altering competitive hierarchies and pushing taxa towards extinction. Parasites and their communities are particularly vulnerable to stress due to envi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678511v1
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Frederik Bak
about 1 month ago
A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. See more:
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment. Please share the ad.
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Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics
https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164888
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European Commission
about 1 month ago
#ChooseEurope
for Science is live! With €22.5 million under
#MSCA
, we’re funding organisations to: 🔬 Host postdoctoral researchers in all fields 🔬 Offer stable jobs and great working conditions 🔬 Create long-term career prospects Europe is where science thrives. More →
link.europa.eu/6JhtHp
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Jason Yang
about 2 months ago
Very happy to share some more good news. Our collaboration with Jeffrey Boyd's lab is now published at J Inorganic Biochemistry! Here, Jeff found that iron limitation reprograms S. aureus metabolism towards fermentation. We're grateful to be part of this study.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fermentative growth decreases the iron demand of Staphylococcus aureus
Iron (Fe) is an essential nutrient for S. aureus survivability and pathogenesis, but excess Fe can catalyze the formation of toxic oxygen radicals, em…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016201342500265X?dgcid=coauthor
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Asha Rangappa
about 2 months ago
Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.
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Jason Williams
about 2 months ago
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply.
#NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
https://jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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Michael Baym
about 2 months ago
I may have just said on the record that I never understood why the kin vs group selection debate even existed since both obviously matter all the time, so RIP my career as an evolutionary biologist
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Vaughn Cooper
about 2 months ago
🚨🎉 The Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM) at Pitt is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Catalyst Award program. This year, Catalysts were designated for science communication projects that engage wider audiences in the field of evolutionary biology and medicine. 🧵🥁
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Waggoner Lab
about 2 months ago
Rifampicin is more effective against biofilm infections because it targets biofilm-forming mutants that are highly resistant to other antibiotics
@niaidnews.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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vicensvc
about 2 months ago
@henryweith.bsky.social
and I are organizing a symposium featuring evo-devo research, taking place at the AMNH on September 25th! If you're in the NYC area, please consider attending! (RSVP:
forms.gle/bA2UeAaimrh6...
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Ann Gregory, PhD
about 2 months ago
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Integrative Viromics Lab @UCalgary 🇨🇦 is looking for a Lab Technician! 🔬 Phage isolation & culture 🧫 Anaerobic chamber work 📦 Lab management & student mentoring Apply now & help us explore the virosphere! You must have work authorization to work in Canada already.
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈
2 months ago
Does anyone know a gene in E. coli that duplicated "fairly recently", as to compare and contrast it's sequence divergence with that found in mobile elements?
#sciencesky
#microsky
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Zamin Iqbal
2 months ago
Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when
@shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an
@embl.org
sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02812-8
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
2 months ago
What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.
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Joshua Weitz
2 months ago
The House discretionary budget bill is now out for FY26, including a proposed *slight boost* in NIH funding & many other components that will take time to unpack. Bill text:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
A few key points including IDC analysis in a provisional 🧵
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https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fy26-labor-health-and-human-services-education-and-related-agencies-subcommittee-mark.pdf
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Tal B. Lavin
3 months ago
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬
3 months ago
Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB
@utknoxville.bsky.social
Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration.
apply.interfolio.com/170735
Please share widely. Thanks!
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Yang-Tan Institute
3 months ago
Register now for the 2025 New York State DREAM (Disability Rights & Employment Awareness Month) Symposium! October 28 & 29, Albany, NY To Register:
events.yangtaninstitute.org/e/11209/regi...
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John Dennehy
3 months ago
As someone whose grant proposal was impacted by the new EO regarding "gain of function" research, I found this perspective quite rosy and optimistic.
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A possible turning point for research governance in the life sciences | mSphere
On 5 May 2025, the White House issued Executive Order (EO) 14292, titled “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” framing it as a sweeping directive to strengthen biosafety and bios...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00407-25
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Julian Catchen
3 months ago
Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See
go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf
for details. Please share!
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Jason Rasgon
3 months ago
The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Penn State is hiring for a senior-level position in Infectious Disease Modeling. Come join our dynamic group of disease researchers! Feel free to message me for details
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/Full-or-Associate-Professor-in-Infectious-Disease-Modeling_REQ_0000070169-1
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
3 months ago
Last lecture of summer popgen:"Evolutionary QuantGen: why (almost) everything we learned is (kinda) wrong". how selection on traits affects alleles. Architecture, stabilizing selection, popgen on gene sets, corn example & a shiny app from
@mgstetter.bsky.social
mgstetter.shinyapps.io/quantgensimA...
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩
3 months ago
💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥 I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by
@cdiener.com
@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social
@isbscience.org
@nitinbaliga.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut
Carr et al. show how microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) predict personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk and probiotic efficacy. MCMMs reveal key metabolic strategies ex...
https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(25)00200-5
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Vaughn Cooper
3 months ago
Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Anne Chevallereau
3 months ago
#phagesky
I am looking for phages infecting Streptococcus pneumoniae to test a phenotype - does anyone have some and willing to share ? Repost appreciated :)
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
3 months ago
Great department, great people. So glad you are able to search this year… we are, too, though it’s not posted yet…
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John Logsdon
3 months ago
1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
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Tiffany Taylor
3 months ago
🦠 New paper led by James Horton (feat. J Cherry &
@gretelwaugh.bsky.social
) reveals GnT DNA motif can boost T→A mutation rates up to 1000×, & how tweaking nearby bases can fine-tune its potency. General across bacteria + potential in synbio. 📄
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…
🔗 James’s thread ⬇️
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Will Ratcliff
3 months ago
Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city.
www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
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Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
https://www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D.
3 months ago
An undergraduate researcher that reached out to me has autism and would like to be connected with other biomed/neuro researchers that are also part of the autism community, any suggestions for how to help them find others?
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