organismal biologist & geneticist | PI at med school in Houston | amazed by microbial superpowers | he/him
#microbiome #Celegans #spacebiology #firstgen 🧫 🦠 🧪 🧬
GS: https://bit.ly/goog-schol-buck-sam
ORCID: 0000-0002-4347-3997
Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬
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Derailed and delayed by weather in Chicago yesterday, but excited to catch up with everyone at C. elegans #MAPSS + #DevCell 2026 today!!
This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations.
For example:
1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
Opening for a #postdocjob in modeling of #genetics of host- #microbiome interactions in #Celegans at @bcmhouston.bsky.social — take a look here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
Questions or apply via cover letter, CV, and references to bucks [at] bcm.edu . Hiring ASAP!
#microsky #jobs 🦠🪱🧬
"Currently proposed policies are likely to lead to ~1000 (~10%) fewer new and competing grants being funded in fiscal year 2026 than would have been funded in years with historically normal levels of multiyear funding."
goodscience.substack.com/p/understand...
Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.
We also have an opening for a #researchtech job in #spacebiology #microbiome research using #Celegans. Help us analyze our recent #CBIOMES spaceflight experiment to the ISS!
DETAILS: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c...
#AcademicJobs #microSky #genetics #NASA #wormsInSpace 🧪 🧬 🦠 🪱 🚀
Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees.
One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help.
Please record a short video, and share!
WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged
proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward
the tagged proteome
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