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Benoit Marteyn

@marteynlab.bsky.social
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Team located on the University of Strasbourg campus (IBMC) with a remaining link with the Institut Pasteur. Shigella, neutrophils, oxygen, RNA among other favorite research topics

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 20h
Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics
Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...
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Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇
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Personnic Lab @personniclab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 Postdoc position. The team Persist (lnkd.in/dS5YAjqt) @ciri-lyon.bsky.social is seeking a highly motivated microbiologist. The position offers an opportunity to develop an original scientific profile at the interface of bacterial genetics, single-cell biology, omics and mathematical modelling.
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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Professor in the field of Bacteriology
Strengthening Cambridge's leadership in bacteriology research Bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance remain among the most pressing global health challenges of our time. At Cambridge, the De...
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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bacterial effector modifies host mRNA to promote virulence FadA from Legionella pneumophila binds to host mRNAs & mediates 8-oxo-guanine (oxo8G) modifications that cause oxidative damage & inhibit translation, favoring bacterial replication/persistence www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Bacterial effector modifies host messenger RNA to promote virulence
McCaffrey et al. describe the isolation of a secreted bacterial enzyme from Legionella pneumophila that mediates 8-oxo-guanine (oxo8G) modifications of host mRNAs to inhibit their expression. This stu...
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Savitski Lab @savitski-lab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/5 How much phosphorylation can a single kinase deposit? In our new study with @typaslab.bsky.social out in @nature.com, phage T7's kinase (T7K) modifies almost all the E. coli proteome + more densely than all ~500 kinases do our own proteomes 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defences - Nature
The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.
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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our latest paper is out! We went back to our favourite molecule, CD1d, and explored its functions in myeloid cells in tumours. Amazing work from Lauren and Maria, and many thanks to our collaborators and funders @breastcancernow.bsky.social @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1084/jem....
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CD1d remodels the tumor-infiltrating myeloid populations controlling antitumor immunity
Evans et al. identify CD1d as a key regulator of myeloid cell diversity in breast cancer. CD1d targeting reshapes tumor immune infiltrates, suppresses tumo
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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!
Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan

Application deadline: August 15, 2026

Applicants are requested to send
1) A cover letter (up to 1 page)
2) A CV
3) A description of research interests and goals (up to 2 pages)
4) A description of teaching experience and philosophy (up to 1 page)
5) Contact information including email to solicit 3 letters of recommendation.
Application materials should be combined into one PDF and addressed to the department chair, Dr. Bethany Moore, and sent via email to Sheryl Smith - sherylhs@umich.edu
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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!
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Open call : MIMOL Junior Group Leader’s application for a Starting Grant - Microbiology and molecular medicine - UNIGE
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Kufer Lab , Department of Immunology @kufer-lab.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NLRP10 is activated at lipid droplets. Check out our new paper just published at EMBOReports! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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C-terminal lysine residues localise NLRP10 at lipid droplets and govern NLRP10 oligomer formation - EMBO Reports
NLRP10 is an atypical member of the NLR family because it lacks a leucine-rich repeat domain at its C-terminus. Here, we show that in human epithelial cells and keratinocytes NLRP10 oligomerises in re...
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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 26/06/2026
Margot Sahnine, Dorian Obino and co-workers @pasteur.fr show that N. meningitidis induces membrane protrusions with distinct #F-actin networks in epithelial and endothelial cells. The branched network in endothelia depends on Arf1. #Host-pathogen #membrane -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Open postdoc position in the Imaging and Modeling Unit at Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Mickaël Cohen of IBPC (Paris, France). High-throughput imaging and deep learning to analyze mitochondrial morphology and understand genetic bases of cellular respiration. Please spread the word.
postdoc position at Institut Pasteur and IBPC to work on mitochondrial morphology using advanced imaging and deep learning
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Cascales Lab @cascaleslab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Extension of the deadline for latecomers. Register to the Secretion Days in Marseille !
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622
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Nicolas Manel Lab @manellab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#EMBOsignaling2026 last day already! Full house for a terrific panel session with editors @science.org @cp-immunity.bsky.social @jem.org @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @embopress.org @plosbiology.org @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social Science Signaling
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VinTorraca @vintorraca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are still a couple of days to apply for this post! Postdoctoral opportunity to study Shigella persistent infection in zebrafish. Deadline to apply: 3 June.
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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Our TARGet AMR genomics-comic is out now - check it out, share it, print it, use it in your lectures, PE events, or maybe even when trying to explain what you do to dinner guests! 🤓 🧬 🧫
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Thomas Henry @cinflammasome.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Want to learn about Francisella and its T6SS (especially the spike complex), have a look at our article on IglF in interaction with the PAAR protein IglG. Indeed, very collaborative work @ciri-lyon.bsky.social with @fronzeslab.bsky.social & @laurentterradot.bsky.social. Kudos to all the authors!
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#InterferonPower #InflammasomePower! Thrilled for our 💥#NewPaper💥 @natimmunol.nature.com spearheaded by Kautilya Jena showing that our #fungal adjuvant #Mannadjuvant prolongs & potentiates protection of mRNA vaccines via #IL1b & #IFNs, broadening it to new variants & overcoming antigenic imprinting!
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A glycan-based adjuvant expands the breadth and duration of protection of mRNA-based vaccines
Nature Immunology - Jena, Qu et al. show that mannadjuvant, a formulation of fungal mannan and aluminum hydroxide, increases the magnitude, durability and breadth of the response elicited by...
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Benoit Marteyn @marteynlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join our team at IBMC in Strasbourg as a postdoctoral fellow to develop/assess new familles of Shigella vaccine. Please RT. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Postdoctoral researcher (M/F) – Shigella vaccine development
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VinTorraca @vintorraca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study Shigella persistent infection using the zebrafish infection model! Deadline to apply: 03-Jun-2026 Link to post: shorturl.at/cCZjK Any questions feel free to get in touch! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please repost!
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Master Internships open at Eligo: www.linkedin.com/posts/duport...
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#internship #syntheticbiology #genetherapy #microbiometherapeutics #biotechcareers | Xavier Duportet
If "engineer bacteria to fight diseases" is your kind of fun, come build it with us. 4 Master's internships open at Eligo for Fall 2026 to work on real drug projects: engineered phage-particles to del...
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Nature @nature.com · 28/04/2026
A form of the inflammatory protein caspase-5 is expressed in immature gut cells, where it promotes proliferation and facilitates tissue regeneration go.nature.com/4ctuWnU
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A cell-death protein has an unexpected role in intestinal repair
A form of the inflammatory protein caspase-5 is expressed in immature gut cells, where it promotes proliferation and facilitates tissue regeneration.
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The Lambrechts Lab @lambrechtslab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 We're hiring! A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov
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Postdoctoral position in mosquito population genomics at Institut Pasteur in Paris - Research
The Insect-Virus Interactions Unit is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the genomic variations underlying a mosquito’s capacity to transmit human arboviruses. Description Our resear...
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The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We hope you all had as wonderful a time in Paris last week as we did - please do fill out the EMBO feedback form that was emailed out this morning to help us improve the meeting! #Shigella2026
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Gilles Laverny @gilleslaverny.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A role for vitamin D and neutrophils in prostate cancer dissemination 🤔 Our latest work highlights 👉 the protective role of vitamin D signaling in prostatic epithelial cells 👉 the impact of circulating neutrophils in cancer dissemination in the liver.
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Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A strong global community of #Shigella researchers and clinicians! #Microsky #IDsky #AMR
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Russell Vance taking leaps and bounds with the mouse knock out model - happy to share mice and test vaccines #Shigella2026
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The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Looking good on Day 3 of #Shigella2026 ☀️🇫🇷🧫
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Rémi Fronzes @fronzeslab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
ComEC structure is out!! 😍 Congratulations to the authors! That’s not an easy one. We have been trying for years to get that structure… We failed and gave up.
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Structural basis for DNA processing and membrane translocation by ComEC in natural transformation
Natural transformation is one of the major pathways of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, enabling the acquisition of extracellular DNA and its integration into the host genome. ComEC is a membrane...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 14/04/2026
#lipidtime!
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!
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Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101
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Open Positions
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“In this study, prime editing of autologous CD34+ cells corrected the molecular defect in p47-CGD and restored neutrophil function to near-healthy levels in the two participants.”🧪🩺
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Prime Editing for p47phox-Deficient Chronic Granulomatous Disease | NEJM
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a severe monogenic immunodeficiency caused by damaging variants in genes required for microbicidal NADPH oxidase activity. Autosomal recessive p47phox-deficie...
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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Two postdoc positions for a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in my Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 13th April. More details at the following link: research.pasteur.fr/job/two-post...
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Two postdoctoral positions in epidemic modelling - Research
Job description We are recruiting 2 postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The postdocs will develop state...
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The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
By popular demand we have now added the option to watch the Shigella 2026 conference online! Check out virtual registration options here 🖥️ 🧫 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/registration...
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CIRI Lyon @ciri-lyon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Friendly reminder : L’IUT de Lyon - Lyon 1 Université et le CIRI recrutent un(e) Maître ou Maîtresse de conférences en Microbiologie médicalehttps://ciri.ens-lyon.fr/MCU-microbiologie-medicale
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Peter Lind @peteralind.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor position in Molecular Microbiology available at Lund University, Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbiology
The Department of Biology conducts research and teaching in many subject areas such as ecology, evolutionary biology, organismal biology and molecular biology. A total of approximately 300 people curr
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Interesting human study here on material immunity protecting neonates from E. coli sepsis...with an interesting preclinical mouse piece showing that probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917 introduced preconceptually into intestine can prime useful IgG protective response in neonates #MicroSky #UTISky #IDSky
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Let's get ready for a full month of training in image analysis in @pasteur.fr , this summer! Are you interested in learning how to do bioimage analysis? For light microscopy? for cryo-EM? And for cellular cryo-EM? Stay tuned, Pasteur offers access to THREE courses, this June. 👇🎓
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Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!
Poster of the 2026 CSHA meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense.
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 25/02/2026
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders! We offer: 🔬 Core funding 💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure 👩🏽‍🔬A network of world-leading scientists …and much more. Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org
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Alexis Rohou @alexisrohou.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.
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Senior Scientist, Protein Sciences in South San Francisco, California, United States of America | Research & Development at Genentech
Apply for Senior Scientist, Protein Sciences job with Genentech in South San Francisco, California, United States of America. Research & Development at Genentech
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 24/02/2026
Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Job opening for Research Group Leader in Structural Studies at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, focusing on macromolecular structures.
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CIRI Lyon @ciri-lyon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
BactoLyon 2026 ! La prochaine édition de BactoLyon se déroulera le 02 avril 2026 sur le Campus de Gerland dans l'Amphi G4 à l’ISFA. Inscription gratuite et obligatoire, limitée à 100 personnes Date limite d’inscription : 13 mars 2026 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Inscription au BactoLyon 2026
Date limite d'inscription 13 mars 2026 Dates de l’événement : 2 avril 2026 Adresse de l’événement : amphithéâtre G4 à l’ISFA Gerland Contact : sarah.bigot@cnrs.fr
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