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Victor J. Torres

@torreslab.bsky.social
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Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA

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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com
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Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Amazing week of science & camaraderie at GRC Microbial Toxins & Pathogenicity! Many thanks to chair @torreslab.bsky.social & the discussion leaders, speakers, poster presenters, attendees, & staff for an awesome meeting! Excited to organize the next one with new vice-chair @sauerlab.bsky.social!
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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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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital @stjuderesearch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Led by St. Jude, an international collaboration mapped the spread of the dominant H5N1 avian influenza strain, D1.1, across North American wild birds. The continent-wide map helps interpret bird-to-human infections and supports ongoing surveillance. ow.ly/YaRv50YK5iS
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First continent-wide map of dominant avian influenza strain explains its spread
Find out how mapping the spread of an avian influenza strain through birds across North America helped scientists understand its human-to-human spread risk.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
📣📣 BWF is hiring! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... #ProjectManagement #ScienceEducation #DiversityInScience #GrantsManagement #NonprofitJobs #STEMCareers #BWFJobs #DurhamNC #HybridWork
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David Weiss @dweisslab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bacteria in our BRAINS??! We observed translocation of bacteria from the gut to the brain via the vagus nerve. This occurred after high fat diet, or without dietary changes in mouse models of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and autism. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Translocation of bacteria from the gut to the brain in mice
Recent studies link gut dysbiosis to neurological disease, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study shows that a high-fat diet increases gut permeability and enables bacterial transloc...
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grants: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education. Up to $500,000 for orgs focused on helping remove obstacles for undergraduates who want to pursue advanced STEM degrees. Deadline is June 1. Please share & apply if this is you! sloan.org/programs/hig...
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Call for Letters of Inquiry: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...
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2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity will be held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
While everyone is hustling for the holidays, hopefully folks will have time to submit abstracts or register for #ASMMicrobe2026 in DC! Please repost!
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital @stjuderesearch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This year, researchers advanced H5N1 research showing that the virus in dairy cattle retains avian features, posing low pandemic risk, and that pasteurized milk with inactive viral components is safe. Studies also identified key S. aureus virulence mechanisms in natural host models.
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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
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simonheilbronner.bsky.social @simonheilbronner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Really happy to see the final version of this published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social. We show that production of and competition for biotin shapes S. aureus fitness in the context of nasal commensals doi.org/10.1093/isme... Work lead by the amazing Kevser Bilici!
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Competitive fitness of Staphylococcus aureus against nasal commensals depends on biotin biosynthesis and acquisition
Abstract. The human nasal microbiome can serve as a reservoir for pathogens. In particular, the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus can be a membe
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Paul Thomas @pgtimmune.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Two complementary studies from our group out today: a therapeutic peptide vaccine trial for fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) & TIRTL-Seq, our robust method for deep quantitative paired TCR sequencing a🧵w/ @markyarchoan.bsky.social & @pogorely.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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TIRTL-seq: deep, quantitative and affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencing - Nature Methods
TIRTL-seq is a high-throughput method for paired T cell receptor sequencing at the cohort scale.
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
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Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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IDWeek @idweek.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD, MsCS, FPIDS, discusses RSV infection in infants and young during this year’s Caroline B. Hall Lecture.
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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I'm honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. As always, I extend my sincerest thanks to all my wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators, admins, and trainees who make this work possible. #MacFellow
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Department of Microbiology, The University of Chicago @uocmicrobiology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague! Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. www.nature.com/naturecareer... www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 12843515
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine—Basic Sciences
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital @stjuderesearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
During National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we celebrate the contributions of our 365 postdoctoral researchers, their dedication to advancing our mission and how St. Jude is supporting postdocs with resources, mentorship and career development opportunities.
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Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.
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Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature
Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.
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Matthew Lawrenz @lawrenzlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
My alma mater is hiring a microbiologist! Assistant/Associate Prof. 👇👇
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Assistant/Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - McGovern Medical School in Texas, United States | Faculty & Physicians at UTHealth Houston
Apply for Assistant/Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - McGovern Medical School job with UTHealth Houston in Texas, United States. Faculty & Physicians at UTHealth Houston
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David Albesa @davidalbesa.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
📢 Job alert! The Structural Microbiology Laboratory (albesalab.org) has two new openings! We are looking for a PhD student and a Research Technician to join our team. Project: "Structure-function studies of Type VI secretion system toxins". www.biofisika.org/en/join-us Apply before 30th September
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Francis Alonzo @francisalonzo12.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy to share Iván’s first-author pub from the lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Staphylococcus aureus exploits lipoic acid salvage to combat host oxidative stress
Acosta et al. find that ADP-ribosylation of the lipoic acid carrier protein GcvH-L promotes Staphylococcus aureus resistance to oxidative burst and facilitates infection. ADP-ribosylation leads to a s...
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...
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Kim Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to post our first S. aureus preprint on biorxiv! Big congrats to co-first authors, postdocs @anjali20anil.bsky.social and Rezia Braza, and really enjoyed the collaboration with @torreslab.bsky.social !
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Jake Choby @jakechoby.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Excited to share the work with @dweisslab.bsky.social‬ and great collaborators on how gene amplification generates dynamic heteroresistance to new beta-lactams, like cefiderocol. We hope drug developers will consider heteroresistance during antibiotic development rdcu.be/euijW
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Copy number flexibility facilitates heteroresistance to increasing antibiotic pressure and threatens the beta-lactam pipeline
Nature Communications - Choby et al. show that dynamic increases in the copy number of preexisting β-lactamase genes in heteroresistance enables resistance of continua of cellular...
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#etox25 great conference and fabulous location!
View across the valley from ArantzazulabHorses grazingSanctuary of ArantzazuAlter inside Sanctuary of Arantzazu
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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Any grad students interested in a career in science policy? Check out this opportunity: mirzayanfellow.nas.edu?utm_source=N...
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The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
This program is an early career educational and training opportunity. It is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy.
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I am recruiting - if you have a background in plant mol cell bio, a keen interest in sustainability and planetary health and are looking to move away from the bench, this may be for you! Have a 👀 and please reach out if Qs 1yr FTC, remote in the UK job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
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PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📣 Applications now open PATH award supports early-career researchers studying the pathogenesis of infectious diseases in humans 💰 $505K over 5 years 🔬 For mid-to-late assistant professors 📅 LOI due: 07/17/25 Apply now 👉 buff.ly/qcSSxbq
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Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Alert! The abstract deadline for the Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response meeting has been extended to July 7 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
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Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET. More information here: buff.ly/iSu3v60 #bwfpath #GrantOpportunity
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lizkellogg.bsky.social @lizkellogg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...
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Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social‬ and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Once again, thank you NIH for making this possible and our amazing coauthors. Special shoutout to coauthors Patty Martin and @torreslab.bsky.social for launching this project 🚀 5/n
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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀
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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
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National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Gastrointestinal colonization as a source of Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
So much joy to see everyone today coming together to celebrate 20 years of the Skaar Lab. Thank you to Eric for the leadership and mentorship over the years! 🥰
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨 Big news! Infection and Immunity is now open access! 🌍🔬 That means wider visibility & impact for your research. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
1/2 New publication from the lab from the talented postdoc Dr. Andy Perrault in collaboration with Dr. Alejandro Pironti! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39977318/
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Enterobacter hormaechei replaces virulence with carbapenem resistance via porin loss - PubMed
Pathogenic <i>Enterobacter</i> species are of increasing clinical concern due to the multidrug-resistant nature of these bacteria, including resistance to carbapenem antibiotics. Our understanding of ...
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Conlon Lab @bconlon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Delighted to share our new study. A collaboration with the Thurlow lab. Antibiotic resistance rapidly emerges and thrives in diabetic mice. A worrying coming together of two major and growing health problems worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Diabetes potentiates the emergence and expansion of antibiotic resistance
Diabetic infections are a reservoir for the emergence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
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Lauren Radlinski @laurenradlinski.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Microbiome science needs more microbiologists- A new commentary authored by myself and @abaumler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microbiome science needs more microbiologists - Nature Microbiology
Microbiome science is a multi-disciplinary field, but classical microbiologists are needed to ensure advances are grounded in our understanding of basic microbiological concepts.
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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨 We also have a "Scientist" position in my lab at St. Jude. The position is financially stable and with a very competitive salary range. 📝 If you have Postdoctoral experience and want to develop a steady research career this one is for you! ➡️ Apply here: talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...
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Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Also sharing the “Meet the Authors” highlight published with the review. Very proud of my amazing trainees Katerina Jones and Camila Brito for sharing a bit of their stories as the next generation of talented Latin Women in Science! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Asun Mejias @mejias71.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Want to see our rapid response to the main abstracts presented at IDweek re: RSV?- check this out! 👇 www.healio.com/cme/pediatri...
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Updates in Preventing Pediatric RSV: Rapid Response From IDWeek
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Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Come and join our team at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! We are seeking a Sr Scientist to advance our research on immune responses to infection/vaccination. This is a financially stable position offering a highly competitive salary and excellent benefits. talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...
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Senior Scientist-Immunology, Vaccinology, Infection in Memphis, Tennessee | St. Jude Careers
St. Jude Careers is hiring a Senior Scientist-Immunology, Vaccinology, Infection in Memphis, Tennessee. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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HarrisTryon Lab @harristryonlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
First post on BlueSky! Excited to enter this new space! www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/harris-...
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Harris-Tryon Lab | UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Our focus is on gaining a greater understanding of how bacteria on the skin surface affect skin health and diseases.
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