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Katie Cockburn

@katiecockburn.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, McGill Biochemistry & Goodman Cancer Institute / Stem cell biologist using intravital imaging to understand how tissues regenerate. cockburnlab.org

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Miguel Ramalho-Santos @mrsantos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are recruiting at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) and the University of Toronto! In the areas of Reproduction, Pregnancy and Developmental Biology, at Assistant or Associate Professor level. Deadline: Nov 29, 2026 Find more and apply👇: 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/192324
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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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Katie Cockburn @katiecockburn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh wow- great opportunity for a cell biologist in an awesome McGill department (with fancy new digs!)
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Tianchi Xin @terencexin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Excited to share that I’m launching my lab xinlab.org this October at the Georgia Cancer Center! 🚀 We study cellular & signaling dynamics in tissue regeneration and oncogenesis using intravital imaging & single-cell profiling. 🔬🧬 I’m recruiting postdocs & students! Interested? Please reach out!
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Home | Xin Lab
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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today 🇨🇦 announced the 64 scholars recruited from top US universities for the Canada Global Impact+ Chairs. They sounds like great scientists. But the enormous level of funding funnelled to this program is jaw-dropping when compared to the pitiful success rates at CIHR.
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And finally—a bit of personal news: 🔬 I’m on the faculty job market this year! I’m looking for tenure-track opportunities where I can build a lab at the intersection of developmental biology, mechanobiology, reproductive biology & aging.
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!
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University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
Job #AJO32408, Assistant Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A true giant of #DevBiol! For you youngsters who might not know, among her decades of fantastic discoveries was this thing she found in 1981 that she called "Embryonic Stem Cells." I think some people still study them. Thanks to Alex for writing this lovely piece!
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨 We are recruiting at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, in the Regenerative Medicine Program ! If your are passionate about basic science, and dream to develop your own research program, please apply! #Ottawa #Canada #Recruitment #Scientist #Research Full description at the link below:
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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Vascular Links to Neurodevelopment
Follow us on LinkedIn Posting Reason: New Position Job Type: Contingent Worker Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments): Job Family: Academic Leadership and Faculty # o...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don't use slop. Someone's trying to make money out of you and your colleagues and your friends. Do yourself a favor and read 100% human-crated content in @prelights.bsky.social Upload preprints. Read preprints. Cite preprints. Fuck AI 🧪
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Homepage - preLights
Welcome to preLights, the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Here, a team of scientists regularly review, highlight and comment on ...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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The elephant in the room: impact factor
Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...
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Katie Cockburn @katiecockburn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Yay @felixgunawan.bsky.social!
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Anupama @anupamahl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Join us this Thursday for two exciting talks on how the dynamic compartmentalisation of metabolism and metabolites can drive cell function and fate. @albrechtlab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social
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Mélanie Laurin @melanielaurin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SAVE THE DATE for the 13th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference — March 7–10, 2027 — bringing together researchers, trainees, and innovators in developmental biology from across Canada and beyond.
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Valentina Greco @valentatormenta.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Visibility in Academia, like in the world, is not fixed; it is produced. This piece “What Cell Biology Reveals About Academia” is a reminder that everyone has the potential to be either seen or unseen. sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/23/w...
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What Cell Biology Reveals About Academia - Science Politics
Our work reminds me that everyone has the potential to be either seen or unseen.
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Katie Cockburn @katiecockburn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just cancelled my account! I can get my email drafts re-written by a company that seems less openly evil 🙃
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
For those on the job market, University of Toronto 🇨🇦 is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Zebrafish Models of Genetic and Metabolic Pathologies 🐟 Yes, they want #zebrafish! 🔗 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Zebrafish Models of Genetic and Metabolic Pathologies
Assistant Professor - Zebrafish Models of Genetic and Metabolic Pathologies
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Yassi Aghazadeh @yassiag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Junior PI position in cancer research open at the IRCM. Apply below 👇🏽 #PIposition #assistantprofessor #cancer #openposition #ircm
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Kai Mesa @kaimesa.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Looking for motivated postdocs interested in doing exciting research at the intersection of immunology and regenerative biology. We use intravital two-photon imaging to track and manipulate immune cell behavior at the single-cell level in live animals mesa-lab.org Apply: apply.interfolio.com/180660
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Mesa Laboratory
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Katie Cockburn @katiecockburn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
😱Let’s please try not to do this to our highly qualified colleagues! (and an extra reminder to think about the role that gender might play when you include a comment like this in your review…)
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Summary: THIS AI REVIEWING TOOL IS DANGEROUS. If editors use AI tools to review, they may desk-reject papers just because the tool suggests many but pointless experiments, while missing fundamental flaws.
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Mélanie Laurin @melanielaurin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🎉 A milestone moment for the Laurin Lab — our first study is out today in PLOS Biology! 🎉 A huge congratulations to our outstanding first author Krithika Kalyanakrishnan and to all co-authors for their exceptional teamwork and perseverance. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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The Rho GTPase regulator ARHGEF3 orchestrates hair placode budding by coordinating cell fate and P-cadherin patterning in mice
During embryogenesis, cells self-organize into patterns that support tissue-specific functions, but how these collective cellular behaviors are coordinated remains unclear. This study shows that the R...
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Here we go again! Have a wonderful first week back to academia everyone!
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a cartoon cat is riding a roller coaster
Alt: a cartoon cat is riding a roller coaster
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Lawrence Kazak @kazaklab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Incredible $10M opportunity for investigators to move to Canada. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Competition
McGill University, a world-renowned research intensive institution, invites applications for the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program, open to the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The ...
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Kyle M. Douglass @kmdouglass.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A holiday demonstration of the different penetration depths of red and blue light into tissue. #optics
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I’m sure this guy is great, not the point, but to think the solution to Canadian scoence is to attract a few dozen scientists from abroad is complete nonsense. There are just as good scientists here. The problem is chronic underfunding. But this does not make headlines www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Canada’s brain gain: A scientific migration amid U.S turmoil
More than 600 scientists – about half from the U.S. – ‘raise their hands’ as they compete for positions at a Canadian Hospital.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
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Kai Mesa @kaimesa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
When Macrophages Disappear, Skin Blood Vessels Age! Check out our new study @nature.com that uncovers how the loss of capillary-associated macrophages with age blocks vessel repair and blood flow, revealing a new cellular trigger of tissue aging. #Aging #Immunology 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Niche-specific dermal macrophage loss promotes skin capillary ageing - Nature
Capillary-associated macrophages are selectively lost over time, contributing to impaired vascular repair and reduced tissue perfusion in older mice.
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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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This is…amazing 🤯
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Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis. #CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis #SystemsBiology jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis
Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The article touches on it almost in passing, but I think it's central: women still need a university degree to earn as much or more as men without one. (Believe it or not, women are also economic actors.)
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Sandra Iden @sandraiden.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#PhDstudent position in our lab – come join us to study epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions in mammalian tissues. We provide thorough training & an awesome team! Apply by Sept. 16: shorturl.at/o9vzd #epithelia #cellbiology #nextgenerationPhD #cellcellcommunication @hetcci.bsky.social
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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We are hiring a PDF to use state-of-the-art data from single cell & spatial transcriptomics of microvessels to uncover the molecular blueprint of successful vascularization & apply findings to coach hPSC-endothelial cells to successfully vascularize grafts 👇 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Company Description: UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 Team UHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Wes...
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Olena Zhulyn @ozhulyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
SickKids Research Institute has just launched a search for Program Head in Developmental, Stem Cell and Cancer Biology. Phenomenal colleagues, amazing science and great food all in the most multicultural city in the world. Join us: www.sickkids.ca/en/research/...
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Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology | SickKids Research Institute
The Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology program has led significant discoveries in developmental genetics, genomics, stem cell and cancer biology.
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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hi all, we got a grant for a cool project that will follow up of our paper published a few months ago (see below). We will explore how light acts as a morphogen to instruct PCP. If you are looking for a postdoc position and interested in this topic, please reach out!
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing). lfpress.com/news/local-n...
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LHSC names 5 former executives in $60M fraud lawsuits
LHSC contends a former executive masterminded a "fraudulent scheme" and he and others used funds they obtained to buy properties
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Felix Gunawan (he/him) 🇨🇦🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈 @gunawanlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1/6 Thrilled to share that I have joined the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor! Grateful for the journey so far and incredibly excited for what’s ahead at @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social @utoronto.ca‬. csb.utoronto.ca/faculty/feli...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...
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Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Postdoc Opportunity Megathread
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King Lab at McGill University @kinglabmcgill.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are you an established PI that studies the human immune system and looking for a change of location? If the answer is yes, #McGill has an amazing opportunity to provide long-term funding at a world class institution. Apply now!!!! Please repost!!! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Canadian Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Human Immunology
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Dr. Deanna Santer @drdeannasanter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
So 💔 to hear what has happened & will continue to happen to 🇺🇸 medical research. For anyone who thinks 🇨🇦 is a possibility-we are recruiting a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair with 7yrs guaranteed funding + poss renewal + salary guaranteed & my lab is recruiting an #Immunology PhD student and/or post doc
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MRM Network @mrmnetwork.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We are excited to welcome you to the McGill Regenerative Medicine Symposium tomorrow, May 27 at @rimuhc.bsky.social ! 🧬 ⏰Registration opens at 8:30 AM 🎤 Full day of talks! Keynote @ 3:50 PM by @saravasconcelos.bsky.social 🎁 Prizes, booths & more! Thanks to our sponsors! #MRMSymposium
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Katie Cockburn @katiecockburn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Another McGill Assistant Professor job at the Lady Davis Institute (where I am)! This is for an immunology (host-virus interactions) position! Come by my colleague! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724)
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