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Michael Glickman

@michaelglickman.bsky.social
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Physician Scientist interested in all things mycobacterial: pathogen, model system, and cancer therapy. Immunology program/ID MSK. Opinions are mine and do not represent those of employer, MSK. Pubs: shorturl.at/GaVRW

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔊 Fully-funded 4 year PhD: How does the microbiome evolve under repeated pathogen exposure? 🦠 Project looking at how commensal microbes resist pathogen invasion, impact of antibiotics on these outcomes, and selective pressures in the microbiome. Come join us at QUB! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Alison Criss @alisoncrissuva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're looking for a department with exceptional science and a collegial atmosphere, please apply! Review of applications will start soon.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Photograph 51 was not the result of an experiment in need of analysis, but was refined documentation for calculations that she had already performed on the earlier photograph." link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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Michelle Fry @myfry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1/ 🧵 Two classic mitochondrial pathways the TCA cycle and OXPHOS are taught as linked but distinct pathways. I’m happy to share our new work out in @cp-cell.bsky.social showing that in Acanthamoeba they're physically linked—with a TCA enzyme incorporated in ATP synthase. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Acanthamoeba ATP synthase structure reveals the TCA cycle is tethered to OXPHOS
Acanthamoeba castellanii, a pathogenic amoeba, belongs to an evolutionary branch distinctly removed from humans and fungi. Cryo-EM of the organism’s ATP synthase enzyme using raw mitochondrial lysates...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 02/10/2026
Considering a PhD in 2027? Applications for Gates Cambridge Scholarships @gatescambridge.bsky.social are now open for October 2027 PhD entry (deadline: 14 October 2026). Learn more about PhD study at the LMB: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...
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PhD Students | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
PhD Students Budding scientists from all over the world undertake postgraduate research at the LMB. Our students are creative and innovative, driving the su ...
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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
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PhD student positions
PhD projects for the 2027 Crick PhD programme.
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Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Those who had a careful look at the methods section of our work on the #cryoEM structure of the CDK11-cyclin L-SAP30BP complex will have noticed that we added a short peptide to our sample before freezing. If you wonder why...
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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet another opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social! We are looking for an Associate Professor If you have exciting research plans, @dunnschool.bsky.social is a great place: excellent science (and lovely people, obvs) www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
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Associate Professorship of Cancer Biology - Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in association with the Queen’s College. - Dunn School
We are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor working in the area of the cellular and/or molecular biology of cancer, to be based in Oxford University’s Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. The ro...
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Philipp Niethammer @niethammerlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👉 The Niethammer lab has two postdoctoral openings. We’re looking for researchers interested in how organelle mechanotransduction and redox signaling shape early responses to tissue injury. If interested, please reach out to me with a CV and letter of intent written in your own words (🚫 AI).
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).
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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon
Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 28/09/2026
Bacteria have evolved #ubiquitin regulatory enzymes are distinct in sequence & structure from their eukaryotic counterparts - a new screening workflow established by @jnpruneda.bsky.social and collaborators allows their identification from complex bacterial samples link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A functional screen for bacterial ubiquitin regulation identifies an unusual Pseudomonas aeruginosa E3 ligase - The EMBO Journal
Bacterial pathogens have adapted secreted effector proteins that hijack host ubiquitination to gain control over host responses. These effectors can exhibit, for example, E3 ligase or deubiquitinase a...
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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 28/09/2026
📢 The 𝗜𝗥𝗕 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 #𝗣𝗵𝗗 #𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 – 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is now open, offering up to 8 PhD fellowships in #Biomedicine or #OrganicChemistry. Explore the participating groups, check the application requirements and apply 👉 shorturl.at/7iSOa 🧪
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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
TT Assistant Professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease at University of Florida
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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Virginia Tech has TWO Assistant/Associate Professor positions open in the Department of Biological Sciences targeting fungal and bacterial molecular biologists. Join some great fungal biologists @mycorican.bsky.social and Kirsten Nielsen! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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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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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GM-CSF signaling on monocytes and monocyte-derived dendritic cells is required for effective pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing opportunity for post-doctoral researchers to move to the UK 'MOBILITY offers 6 outstanding postdoctoral researchers a 5-year opportunity to develop their own ambitious research programme at University of Birmingham' www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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MOBILITY - University of Birmingham
Retaining Europe's brightest researchers to drive the next generation of life science breakthroughs.
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Doug Kojetin @dougkojetin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apply today to be my colleague at Vanderbilt in the Department of Biochemistry! 
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tim Bestor has left us. This obituary captures him well — you always had to be at your intellectual peak with him, while his trainees always spoke highly of their experiences. He made a massive contribution to epigenetics, a giant in our field. www.genetics.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
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In memoriam of Professor Timothy H. Bestor
In memoriam: Professor Timothy H. Bestor 1952-2026
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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looking for a faculty position combining research in fundamental cell and molecular biology with therapeutic discovery? Join our amazing faculty at the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32657 Apply by Nov. 15! Please share!
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#MicroSky
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Akos Nyerges @akosnyerges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Proud and excited to share our first preprint 🚀 in which we • create a high-fitness firewalled organism, • that stably colonizes the mouse gut for >100 days, • resists all tested phages in the gut, • and blocks horizontal gene transfer. + A new method: Chimera genomes to tailor existing synthetic
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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible Harold Freeman, Who Helped Remove Barriers to Cancer Treatment, Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/h...
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Harold Freeman, Who Helped Remove Barriers to Cancer Treatment, Dies at 93
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My department (Biology at Emory) is hiring for a teaching track position! These are stable, well-respected, long-term positions with a path to promotion and ppl often staying for decades. The dept is wonderfully supportive and filled with amazing humans (faculty + staff) apply.interfolio.com/191814
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Postdoctoral position studying Neisseria gonorrhoeae genetics, genomics, physiology, or pathogenesis. Please email h-seifert@northwestern.edu or apply at careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu_er/... Please Repost
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Drummond Lab @drummondlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu
A picture of the University of Chicago campus, with downtown Chicago in the distance and Lake Michigan on the horizon. The campus's central quad is pictured, a classical collegiate quad with paths and old trees and stone architecture. It's really pretty and I love it.
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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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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Interesting article about SigD/RsdA in M. abscesus. Some over lap with TB regulon and function, but also many differences. It will be interesting to see if the proteolytic processing of RsdA is also by a Rip1 S2P. Nice work! 🦠https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1012286
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The SigD regulon of Mycobacterium abscessus determines cell envelope composition and antibiotic susceptibility
Author summary Mycobacterium abscessus is an increasingly important bacterial pathogen that causes difficult-to-treat infections because it is naturally resistant to many antibiotics. A major contribu...
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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come be my colleague! Montreal is a great place to live and work! Tenure Track position at @mcgill.ca in quantitative cell biology with a research program to address fundamental questions in biology. @futurepislack.bsky.social mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Assistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology - Department of Biology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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sarasuliman.bsky.social @sarasuliman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For innate T cell enthusiasts, happy to share our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We show that mycobacterial lipid–reactive CD1b-specific T cells transcriptionally resemble conventional CD4 T cells more than other innate-like T cells, challenging how we classify these T cells. #CD1b #GEM
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Post-exposure prophylaxis is nearly 100% effective when it is given appropriately before symptoms begin. If your child may have been exposed, this is not the moment for vaccine hesitancy. Call your health department now if you do not want your to watch your child die a preventable death.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Three baby goats from a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina have tested positive for rabies. A fourth is presumed infected. The goats may have had contact with children and families at events across several counties. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.
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David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New facets of eicosanoid signaling in TB: crosstalk with a specialized population of granuloma-associated fibroblasts. Happy to share new work led by Erika Hughes, with @charliejpyle.bsky.social and many other wonderful collaborators not on BlueSky.
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Host eicosanoid signals define a granuloma fibroblast population that coordinates mycobacterial containment
Hughes et al. find that the TB susceptibility gene lta4h contributes to the recruitment and differentiation of a discrete set of fibroblasts that populate the periphery of mycobacterial granulomas in ...
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
biofilm aficionadas y aficionados take note👇 #MicroSky
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 26/08/2026
Out Now! Desiccation promotes DNA damage and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis #MicroSky
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Desiccation promotes DNA damage and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02437-wAnalysis of desiccation stress responses in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals increased oxidative stress and DNA damage, leading to upregulation of the transcription-coupled repair factor, Mfd, which buffers fitness costs associated with specific rpoB mutations conferring rifampin resistance.
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu
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Welcome - AP Recruit
University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nominations for the 2027 New Voices in Infection and Immunity cohort are now open: asm.org/NewVoices-IA...
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ll soon be #Hiring a postdoc to join the Secor Lab at Montana State University. This NIH-funded position will investigate phage biology in Lyme disease spirochetes. The official ad will be available soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested! #MicroSky #PhageSky 🔬🦠🧪🧫
An engorged tick with fluorescent bacteria in its midgut
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Antonio Pagán @antoniopagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the University Tenure Line. We seek ou...
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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · 19/08/2026
New online! Bacterial lipid structural diversity mediates commensalism and pathogenesis
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Bacterial lipid structural diversity mediates commensalism and pathogenesis
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01351-6In this Review, Heaver and Ley overview the different lipid structures present in commensal and pathogenic bacteria and their recognition by Toll-like receptor 2, Toll-like receptor 4 and CD1 molecules, highlighting the different effects on host immune responses.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!
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Mickaël Blaise @mickael-blaise.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We expect to have an open postdoctoral position this fall to investigate the cellular biology of Nocardia species. The ideal candidate will have completed their PhD recently or will finish it soon 1/5
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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Be my colleague! We are seeking Assistant/Associate Professors in these areas: Immunology, including but not limited to cellular immunology Infection, Bacteriology or Microbiology This is a good place to work, with excellent students and colleagues and an interactive, encouraging environment.
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Check out our New Voices in Microbiology: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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