“NOTE: The NIH has not yet provided guidance for how to request the addition of more international project components to an existing awarded PF5 project.“
I’m excited to share a new paper out today led by Dr. Younghwan Kwak.
Cool story on symbiont genomic variation within individual hosts. (And, also, just an impressive display of -omics skill).
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
NSF BIO is having office hours on 6/17 about the new PRFB. Hopefully, we learn if the new solicitation means "use machine learning tools in pursuit of your biological questions" or if this program is also steering the questions themselves. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
Video
Abstract. Obligate endosymbionts of insects undergo extreme genome evolution, marked by accelerated molecular evolution, severe base-pair compositional bia
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Looking for postdoctoral support? Join us to learn about NSF BIO Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology.
Based on the guidelines we issued yesterday, please obtain prior approval for the collaborations you began years ago.
Gordon Bennett
Reese Richardson
Ben Parker
Carl T. Bergstrom
H1B visas were historically key for postdocs and research scientists (and future PIs and professors) - and the fee threatened to totally derail that pipeline. This is good news.
Some more on foreign components. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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We are actively searching for a postdoc to join the lab! Details provided here - johrilab.org/join
Please share.
I will be at PEQG and will be happy to chat if you're interested!
UNC-Chapel Hill has been lagging behind peer universities for years in how much it pays faculty. Some professors are warning that the large pay gaps are impacting recruitment and retention.
Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)!
The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us!
apply.interfolio.com/185622
Applications due 8/1.
A very important preprint to check out:
The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions
By Gavin M Douglas an S. Andrew Inkpen
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Liz Neeley
A federal judge has blocked Trump’s bid to slap a $100,000 fee on employers who seek to hire foreign workers for specialized roles.
It's a significant victory for states who sued Trump over the proclamation, saying the fee had damaged their ability to hire workers.
