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Dr. Renee Read

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Nerdy Neurobiologist | Basic/Translational Neuro-Oncology Researcher | Associate Professor Pharmacology and Chemical Biology | Co-Leader of Cellular and Molecular Biology at Winship Cancer Institute | Gardener | Opinions my Own

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 01/10/2025
Challenging times call for strong networks. The Neuroscience Scholars Program provides mentorship, career guidance, and a supportive network committed to your success. Join the next cohort. Applications open Tuesday, October 7. 🔗 vist.ly/48x7i #neurosky #neuroskyence
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371
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Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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ulrichtechnau.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Great opportunity! The Uni Vienna has launched a call (APART) for 4-funding for outstanding postdocs from a US institution. The host lab has to nominate by 1 August a candidate for further selection. Anyone interested in our work please contact me by email with CV/motivation letter. Hurry up!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!
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Hadley Bergstrom @hadleybergstrom.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely! vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share! alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.
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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
📣 The deadline for the Neuroethics Essay Contest has been extended to July 31!
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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Our lab @emoryuniversity.bsky.social Dept. of Cell Biology is hiring a research technician! This position is ideal for someone who enjoys research, organization, and working in a team. Come for a few years and publish with us, or stay to build a career. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/149068/...
In this light microscopy image of dividing cells within a Drosophila embryo, multiple centrosomes are labeled in cyan. Each centrosome is surrounded by a concentration of orange fluorescent dots, showing the localization of a model mRNA via single molecule detection.
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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · 10/06/2025
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM
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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 03/06/2025
Acquired resistance limits the efficacy of cancer treatments & accounts for therapy failure in most patients. Our Roadmap explores how innovative technologies bridge the gap between fundamental research on resistance and clinical translation into actionable strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acquired resistance in cancer: towards targeted therapeutic strategies - Nature Reviews Cancer
Acquired therapeutic resistance is a key contributor to cancer treatment failure, requiring new approaches to address its complex mechanisms. In this Roadmap, Soragni, Knudsen and colleagues discuss t...
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
Text copied from website on April 7, 2025 stating "Recruitment of new postbacs has resumed. Please read program information below and use the 'Start your application' link to apply."
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/03/2025
The new book Doctors by Nature "invites deeper reflection on what it means to medicate, how landscapes shape access to medicine, and whether we humans are as discerning in our self-medicating choices as our nonhuman counterparts." Read the #ScienceBooks Review: scim.ag/3XV9C35
Book cover for Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, & Other Animals Heal Themselves, by Jaap De Roode
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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
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Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students. Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 05/03/2025
We are excited to announce new grants in "Ethics, Science, and the Public." These projects will explore societal and ethical considerations of basic research projects. www.kavlifoundation.org/science-and-... #scicomm #sciengage #basicscience #discoveryscience
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Announcing New Grants in Ethics, Science, and the Public
The Kavli Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Make use of our public database of Postdoc fellowships (private foundations, federal agencies). It's downloadable and free. We list 290 different fellowships and funding opportunities, along with description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“We are really trying very, very hard ... to move our world forward" through "foundational, sometimes groundbreaking research, and then you get flagged and blacklisted because there is a word like ‘female’ in your project.” My latest, w/the brilliant Agnel Philip www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Henry Lab & Dr. Henry are the BEST, his deep commitment to cancer biology and immunology research, mentorship, and support of early career scientists from diverse backgrounds is to be lauded - one of the MANY amazing scientists here @cuanschutz.bsky.social! 🖤💛 #WeCU
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Steven Sloan @sloanlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trying my best to focus on some positive science content. We feel so grateful to have our work highlighted on the cover of @naturecellbiology.bsky.social! This beautiful #astrocyte reconstructed from the raw data images used in the paper. Most of which are never typically seen! rdcu.be/d5ADz
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Silvia De Rubeis @derubeislab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Are there other Directors of Postbaccalaureate Research Education Programs (PREP) here? Looking to connect and build community.
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 14/02/2025
🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟 Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health. 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!) Apply now ⬇️
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Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research
The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...
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Dr. Renee Read @drreneeread.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Congratulations 🥳 to our wonderful and talented postdoc Dr. Mohamed Ishan on receiving a fundable score on his NINDS F32 application this week! 👏🍾🥂. Fund our future!!!
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Dr. Renee Read @drreneeread.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wrapped up this cycle’s meeting of the Advanced Therapeutics A 🔬🧠🧬🧪🥼NIH study section today, which was an island of professionalism and normalcy in the chaos of today’s science. Thabk you to our SRO Dr. Maureen Shuh! 💪🏽
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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My lab at #EmoryUniversity is seeking a #Postdoc candidate with expertise in #proteinbiochemistry to continue our exciting work on engineered protein therapies for #MitochondrialDiseases and #MetabolicDiseases. Email me to discuss this further. Please repost! #Proteinengineering #proteintherapy
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Chrystal Paulos @chrystalpaulos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Dr. Sumit Subudhi talks about a patient who picked this new therapy called anti-CTLA4 therapy over going to hospice. He was cured of melanoma! @sitcancer.bsky.social m #CIWS2025 Winter school. Cancer research advances medicine and gives more days to life!!!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Very good source to understand indirect costs by Sally Rockey, former Deputy Director for Extramural Activities at NIH. Very thorough and clear. If you want to understand indirect costs or have family or friends who are pestering you to explain IDC, send them this... www.aau.edu/key-issues/i...
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Indirect Costs 101, Sally J. Rockey | Association of American Universities (AAU)
Sally Rockey, explains indirect costs and how they support research.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I just went to the NIH webpage for clinical trials and looked for active trials on glioma (brain tumors; incredibly hard to treat). There are over 200 trials for this one cancer type at hundreds of sites. All at risk. Putting patients at risk. And for what??? www.cancer.gov/research/par...
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STAT @statnews.com · 11/02/2025
The chairs of the Senate committees that fund and oversee NIH worry about the impact of cuts
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Key GOP senators push back against NIH funding cuts
Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Susan Collins (Maine) expressed concern Monday about the impact on biomedical research of large cuts to overhead spending.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/02/2025
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
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Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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Soma Sengupta MD, PhD, MBA @somasengupta.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Today on #WorldCancerDay - think of signing up to an integrative oncology session for brain tumors.
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
#GliaPapers #GliaSpecialIssue SPECIAL COVER SPECIAL ISSUE: Glial omics: unraveling mechanisms in health and disease onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10981136... Editorial Unboxing “Omics” in Glial Biology to Understand Neurological Disease here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Special Issue: Glial omics: Unraveling mechanisms in health and disease: Glia: Vol 73, No 3
Glia is the top neurobiology journal for research into glial cells (also called gliocytes or neuroglia). Articles cover all aspects of glial cell biology in health and disease.
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Dr. Renee Read @drreneeread.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Join us on March 13-14, 2025, for a special in-person postdoctoral recruitment event @winshipatemory.bsky.social. Network with mentors and postdocs in our Cancer Research programs, and explore our community and career resources. Apply by January 31, 2025. Details & Application: brnw.ch/21wPrWk
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LesinskiLab @lesinskilab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Time is running out! Prospective post docs please apply to our event to learn about @winshipatemory.bsky.social Apply at this link brnw.ch/21wPrWk
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Stanford Neurology & Neurological Sciences @stanfordneuro.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A Stanford study found that part of the Epstein-Barr virus mimics a protein made in the brain and spinal cord, leading the immune system to mistakenly attack the body's nerve cells. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Study identifies how Epstein-Barr virus triggers multiple sclerosis
A new study found that part of the Epstein-Barr virus mimics a protein made in the brain and spinal cord, leading the immune system to mistakenly attack the body's nerve cells.
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Nick Vitanza @nickvitanza.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Honored to have our recently published first-in-human phase 1 clinical trial of repeatedly dosed intracerebroventrocular B7-H3 #CARTcells for children with #DIPG highlighted in @theaacr.bsky.social and #CancerDiscovery Research Watch ❤️🔬
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BrainChild-03 Trial Supports Safety of B7-H3 CAR T-cell Therapy for DIPG
Main Finding: A phase I trial supported the safety and feasibility of repeated intracranial infusions of B7-H3 CAR T cells for DIPG.Concept: B7-H3 is an immunoregulatory protein expressed on the surfa...
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Dr.rer.pol. Sabine Schwab @sabine-nj.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“President Trump, Brain tumors have no political party, and as President Roosevelt said 85 years ago, “We cannot be a strong nation unless we are a healthy nation.” I ask that you reconsider the suspension of activities at the NIH.” source: @adammarc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...
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A Love Letter to the NIH
The National Institutes of Health is a National treasure
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Dr. Renee Read @drreneeread.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Join us on March 13-14, 2025, for a special in-person postdoctoral recruitment event @winshipatemory.bsky.social. Network with mentors and postdocs in our Cancer Research programs, and explore our community and career resources. Apply by January 31, 2025. Details & Application: brnw.ch/21wPrWk
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