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Rio Sugimura

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Synthetic immunology and cell fate. Hong Kong University

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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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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pls share: Princeton has an open rank faculty search in the areas of cancer biology, cancer prevention, and cancer-relevant computational science, including connections between cancer and immunology or metabolism. apply.interfolio.com/191852
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hosting a Mini-Organoid Symposium at #HKUMed with Gui-Wei He (SZ Bay Lab)! 🗓Sept 30, 1–4pm 📍3SR-LT2, 3 Sassoon Rd, HK Gut, brain, heart, liver & cancer organoids. Speakers: Nick Barker, Yangfei Xiang, Joe Zhang, Gui-Wei He & Rio Sugimura. All welcome! #Organoids
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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The newly established Department of Systems Biology (systems.bio.uci.edu) @UCIrvine is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems Biology. Great science, incredible faculty support, and beautiful, sunny SoCal weather! ☀️🌴 Details: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377. Please share.
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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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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Great wrap-up of #2026SDB - if you are hungry for more #devbio, consider joining us for the upcoming Gordon Research Conference & trainee-led Gordon Research Seminar in Developmental Biology, Jan 17-22 at Il Cioccio! 🧬🐟🐀🧪🌱🧫🦎🪰🪱
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Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @handle.invalid · 06/07/2026
Already out for a while as the final version: Our @elife.bsky.social paper presenting an experimental and computational pipeline for whole mount deep imaging and multi-scale analysis of organoid systems: elifesciences.org/articles/107... A great collaboration during my postdoc in Marseille.
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A quantitative pipeline for whole-mount deep imaging and analysis of multi-layered organoids across scales
The Tapenade pipeline enables single-cell, whole-mount 3D quantification in dense multilayer organoids, linking spatial gene co-expression and nuclear deformation to emerging tissue-scale organization...
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
*Seminar Alert* Its today *Lineage Tracing and Disease Modeling in Human Embryos* Rio Sugimura, Hong Kong University When: 26. 06. 2026, 15:00 Where: H22-2, Medical Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt @riosugimura.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Seminar Alert *Lineage Tracing and Disease modeling in human embryos* Rio Sugimara, Hong Kong University When: 26. 06. 2026, 15:00 Where: H22-2, Medical faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt @riosugimura.bsky.social @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Excited to visit Hannover Medical School this June, supported by the HKU Overseas Scheme. Many thanks to Nico Lachmann for hosting me. I look forward to exchanging ideas, exploring new directions, and expanding our collaboration, especially in CAR macrophage research.
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Thanks!
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Thanks! Exciting line up of speakers
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Proud to be invited to GRC Developmental Biology. Looking forward to sharing our SCBEM works for blood and neuron.
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️
Flier for the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2027 on Developmental Biology, held at the Renaissance Touscany Il Ciocco Resort in Italy, January 17-22 2027. List of speakers, organizers, and tag line of Organizing Principles of Growth, Form, and Regeneration Driving Transformative Applications.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Download our updated database of postdoc fellowships from different foundations and agencies. We identified 275 fellowships. For each entry, we provide description of the fellowship, focus, amount, deadline, eligibility, etc. Download this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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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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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🔬 February's most-read cancer biology paper: buff.ly/gSjqnmu Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/mjwHZCb
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Congrats Chloe from our lab for the second prize in the HKU Grad School imaging competition. Heart-shaped brain organoids. Cannot wait to integrate with actual heart organoid
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... great oppurtunity
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Junior Group Leader in Stem Cell Medicine
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨Don’t forget to apply to this PAID research training in developmental biology‼️ Deadline: February 1st 2026
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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Looking to start your lab in generative biology / AI? Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways! pls RT tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty
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Group Leader - Generative Biology and AI
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm excited to speak at @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #StemCell Models of #Embryology, this February! Join me to explore emerging research in Pacific Grove! keysym.us/KSEmbryology26 #KSEmbryology26
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Stem Cell Models in Embryology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Stem Cell Models in Embryology, February 2026, in Pacific Grove, with field leaders!
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Our Blood Engineering Lab is looking for a postdoc candidate. If you would like to join Immuno ChatGPT and AI virtual cell, DM me
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
We are thrilled to host Human Embryo Biology and Modeling symposium at @hkusbms.bsky.social . Human embryos, stem cell embryos, model organisms, single-cell atlas Nov 26, 2pm-6:30pm Guojun Sheng, @liliulab.bsky.social , Angela Wu, Rio Sugimura, Tiago Rito, Pentao Liu
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The study was led by @chao_yiming now on job market. Blood originates in hypoblasts during embryonic development www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
- The first blood comes from the hypoblast that contributes to hemoglobin+ phagocyte-like cells; - CDX2 marks hypoblast blood that sustains oxygen supply in embryos before heart formation; - Erythro-core regulatory network endows erythropoiesis to human hypoblasts and phagocytes.
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Now we employ CRISPRa and are discovering a core regulatory network to endow erythropoiesis to hypoblast as well as phagocytes. 8/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Indeed, the red cell precursor from hypoblast is mesenchymal and EMT+. What’s more, they are molecularly and functionally similar to phagocytes. What does it mean? Phagocytes are one of the oldest immune cells in evo-devo. What if hypoblast repurposed a phagocyte to give a new role? Carry oxygen? 7/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
But the remaining question is, why do we need to make red blood cells so early? We are actually a macrophage lab, and got inspired at GRC Phagocytes this year. The heart beats 1 week after blood appears. Blood should do its job without circulation. Should the early blood be snaky and locomotive…? 6
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We used two independent human embryo models and LARRY molecular barcoding to identify hypoblast transition to erythroblasts. CDX2 marks such a transition, and its KO led embryo model suffers hypoxia. 5/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Hypoblast was believed to be a dead end of development, only contributing to the yolk sac structure, or AVE. But primate embryos suggest hypoblast may contribute to extraembryonic mesenchymal cells, that we saw in our human embryo models too. 4/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We wondered if some blood might begin before gastrulation. These are epiblast, trophoblast, and hypoblast. Epiblast undergoes gastrulation to follow the long track to make blood. Trophoblast is missing in some embryo models, but we still see such early blood. Then hypoblast…? 3/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We hematologists are taught that all blood starts from gastrulation. When we precisely followed these steps that mimic gastrulation, hematoendothelial mesoderm, and hematopoiesis, it took 2 weeks. But some red cell precursors appear much faster, like a few days… 2/
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Our latest preprint. Blood originates in hypoblasts during embryonic development. As a blood generator from a petri dish, one question has always stuck in my mind for 15 years. Why does some blood come so fast from iPSC? 1/
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Amy D Willis @amydwillis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Are you looking for a #tenuretrack or #openrank job in #biostatistics or #statistics? @fredhutch.org is hiring! Seattle is a wonderful place to grow your career; the bio/stat & science scene here is world-class; and you will work w/ amazing UW Biostat students. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/176402
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/09/2025
🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
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Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper
We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...
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Pelechano lab @pelechanolab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We are looking for new SciLifeLab Fellows (group leaders) to join SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet @ki.se . @scilifelab.se is a great place to start your lab with generous funding. Deadline: 15th November. Apply and join us in beautiful #Stockholm #JuniorPI ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Assistant Professor in Molecular Life Science (SciLifeLab Fellow)
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? Karolinska Institutet (KI) is recruiting researchers as part of the SciLifeLab Fellows program. The successful candidates will join KI and co
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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QKI ensures splicing fidelity during cardiogenesis by engaging the U6 tri-snRNP to activate splicing at weak 5ʹ splice sites
During organogenesis, precise pre-mRNA splicing is essential to assemble tissue architecture. Many developmentally essential exons bear weak 5'splice sites (5'SS) yet are spliced with high precision, ...
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @mskcancercenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
MSK’s Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is now accepting applications for its Cancer Biology and Cancer Engineering #PhD programs for the 2026 academic year. Apply below:
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Admission to the PhD Programs
Gerstner Sloan Kettering offers a unique opportunity to train with some of the world’s leading researchers while developing a deep understanding of today’s clinical challenges. We are looking for high...
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Rio Sugimura @riosugimura.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Huge congrats to our very first PhD student David Xiang for successful defense! Kudoso to our team, committee members, collaborators to support his work on human gastruloid and critical genes for transcriptional regulation in organogenesis
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ME Torres-Padilla @metorrespadilla.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ? Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell... Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!! Please distribute :) 🙂
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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 29/08/2025
🧬 Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II relies on a web of elongation factors. Our new work shows how IWS1 acts as a modular scaffold to stabilize & stimulate elongation. Fantastic work by Della Syau! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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