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Gemma Carvill

@gc4gc.bsky.social
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rare disease neurogeneticist | epilepsy | epigenetics | iPSCs | mentor & genetics MedEd | here for the science, lab fun & occasionally my tiny hooman sites.northwestern.edu/carvilllab

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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Congrats Daniel! V cool work!
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Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New preprint from Shendure Lab on Locus-Scale aka Long-@$$ MPRAs led by the amazing Abby McGee & @carinabiar.bsky.social Most MPRAs test ~300 bp fragments next to a promoter. But real enhancers are bigger, act combinatorially and from a distance. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Totes, esp as probs best player atm, and you’d fancy your chances against v avg Belgian team
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Horrible call
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stay safe Igor!
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
CONGRATS!! So exciting and so well deserved Prof!!
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I missed you all more!!
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I watched this yesterday and gotta say it brought a tear! So great!
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Gabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
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Hakhamanesh Mostafavi @hakha.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
My center at NYU SoM is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in human genetics and genomics. It's a wonderful place to do science. Please apply or pass along. apply.interfolio.com/177375
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Igor Ulitsky @igorulitsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A preprint‼️that's bound to ruffle some 🪶 "Widespread DNA off-targeting confounds studies of RNA chromatin occupancy" led by our Micah Goldrich and Louis Delhaye from Pieter Mestdagh in Ghent. TL;DR we show that many of lncRNA chromatin occupancy obtained are flawed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Gemma Carvill @gc4gc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
And what a run! Congrats Karen on 10 years of wonderful leadership!
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Haky Im @hakyim.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.
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Matthew Alexander, PhD @mattmuscleguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
UAB and Children's of AL is looking for a new Division Director of Pediatric Neurology (come be one of my bosses!). We are consistently in the top 30 nationwide in Pediatric Neurology and have excellent subspecialties in: Epilepsy, Autism, and NMDs. Apply: tinyurl.com/y8d8duve
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Robert Rosenbaum @robertrosenbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments. Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions. And please share! apply.interfolio.com/173031
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Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📣 We are recruiting! Please share!! Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺 We have two roles available 👇 🧵 1/4
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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
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Pearson Lab @capearson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Know any great developmental neurobiologists looking for a post doc position? Are you looking for an adventure with cerebral organoids in New York City? We are looking for an enthusiastic new team member! Feel free to DM or email me 🧪 🧠 🍎 #science #neurodev #neurobiology #neuroscience #devbio
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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
HEY! The countdown is on—abstract submissions for #ASHG25 close in 11 days! 🔬 Share your research. 🤝 Build your network. ✨ Inspire your field. 🗓️ Submit now: www.ashg.org/meetings/202... #ASHG #HumanGenetics
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to have a new preprint describing the seizure circuit in a CNS infection model of temporal lobe epilepsy- great work from Alexandra Petrucci (not on bluesky.) #epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Seizure Circuit Activity in the Theilers Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus Model of Infection-induced Epilepsy Using Transient Recombination in Active Populations.
Epilepsy affects one in twenty-six individuals. A major cause of epilepsy worldwide is viral encephalitis. Central nervous system infections can provoke seizures in the short term and increase the ris...
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Kristin @klewis.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
🧬 🖥️ For our genetics/genomics friends visiting #ASHG23, you can follow the conference's conversation on this feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... Just use #ASHG23 (or #ASHG2023) to post to the feed.
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