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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine

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Vascular biologist. Brain AVMs and Kras, glioblastoma and angiogenesis, lymphatics, and developmental biology. www.wythelab.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A federal judge in California, in a damning 90-page decision, rules the government cannot revoke the F-1 visas of international student journalists because it doesn't like their reporting and such retaliation violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #108 in Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation v. Rubio (N.D. Cal., 5:25-cv-06618) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(1) signed by Judge Noël Wise on 8/28/2026. (akw, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/28/2026)
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Ben Hogan @benjhogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Final version of our paper on zebrafish pericytes and BBB function is now out in Elife! Congrats to Oz the first author and all contributors. elifesciences.org/articles/104...
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Mural cells protect the adult brain from hemorrhage but do not control the blood–brain barrier in developing zebrafish
Pericytes regulate cerebrovascular development, while vascular smooth muscle cells prevent hemorrhage and blood–brain barrier breakdown at vascular hotspots in juvenile and adult zebrafish.
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Apply to be a NIH PO. Open application portal, closes June 5th. www.usajobs.gov/job/870714000
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Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer)
Join one of the 24 Institutes and Centers within the NIH that awards extramural grants! Extramural grants account for approximately 80 percent of NIH's budget and are awarded to investigators at more ...
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Shicheng Guo @shihcheng.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
PF127-RAPA micelles boost AAV transduction by 3x, reduce dosing needs, and cut immunogenicity, enhancing gene therapy potential for orthopedic diseases! PMID:41904198, Nat Commun 2026, @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71194-5 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
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Modulating nuclear stiffness and envelope barrier facilitates AAV nuclear entry and reduces immunogenicity | Nature Communications
Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) have shown promise for orthopedic diseases. However, conventional AAV vectors face major challenges, where immune responses reduce transgene efficacy and inadequate vector potency requires higher doses, leading to increased costs and safety concerns. Here, we show that Pluronic F-127 (PF127) micelles encapsulating rapamycin (PF127-RAPA), co-administered with AAV vectors, significantly enhanced AAV transduction efficiency and reduce its immunogenicity. Mechanistically, PF127-RAPA modulates the morphology and mechanical properties of the nuclear membrane, which is associated with enhanced passive transport mediated by nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) and thereby increased AAV nuclear entry. Concurrently, PF127-RAPA reduced AAV particle accumulation in the cytoplasm, minimizing MHC class I presentation of capsid proteins and attenuating the cellular immune response. Notably, in postmenopausal osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis mouse models, PF1
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There's been very few aerial bombings on US soil throughout history. The first one was a massacre in Tusla Oklahoma in 1921. The most recent....a bombing that killed 11, occured in Philadelphia 41 years ago today. #MOVEBombing
A map of Black Massacres in the country since 1863. 

With a focus on the 1985 MOVE Bombing on May 13, 1985 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine @wythelab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Incredibly excited for BME trainee in the Peirce-Cottler lab, Kareem El-Ghazawi, thesis defense.
Kareem and his thesis advisor, Dr. Peirce-Cottler. The man of the hour!
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Are you currently at the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Conference? @weinsteinconf.bsky.social Development Editors, @benoitbruneau.bsky.social and @kenposs.bsky.social, are present - do make sure that you chat to them about publishing with us.
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
NicheNet v2 zenodo.org/records/7074... Resolve cell-cell communications with ~5k ligand-receptor pairs Account for DEG in receiver cells Sender/ligand-agnostic + Sender-focused approach A step-by-step protocol😎 #NatProtoc 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 03/04/2026
The #cytoskeleton contributes to abnormal genome-lamina interactions in LMNA-deficient cardiomyocytes. New study from Kaitlyn M. Shen, Parisha P. Shah, Rajan Jain @pennmedicine.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Chromatin #epigenetics #Disease #lamin #laminopathies
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The entire 1983 Stevie Ray Vaughan ACL concert has been uploaded. I've queued it up to start on "Tin pan Alley," but the whole thing is worth watching --- after you "like" this post, of course. 😃 youtu.be/MrbAaQ3BXgA?...
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Austin City Limits 1983 Unedited Complete
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Bio-protocol @bio-protocol.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A Cytosine Deaminase–Based Genomic Footprinting Assay (cFOOT-seq) for Detecting Transcription Factor Occupancy Work by Meng-Chen Yang, Ang Wu, Heng Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Jiejun Shi, Shaorong Gao and Jia-Min Zhang at Tongji University. #LifeSciences #Reproducibility #MolecularBiology
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Submit to our Developmental Biology Special Issue - Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development!😎 Guest editors Katherine Fantauzzo @fantauzzolab.bsky.social Jennifer Fish Deadline April 30th, 2026 @socdevbio.bsky.social Linked here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...
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NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race
The NIH Data Book page reporting Research Project Grants (RPG) and Fellowship awards by race has been updated for FY2025. Completely unsurprisingly, despite the impression that may have been convey…
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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine @wythelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Looking forward to a great talk from UVA BME alum Dr. Monica Lee @navbo.bsky.social !
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Devine lab @devinelab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
⚡️We are excited to share a new paper from the lab by @drkhole.bsky.social in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social - suggesting MitoTracker dyes are not a reliable tool for detecting intercellular mitochondrial transfer❗️ www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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MitoTracker transfers from astrocytes to neurons independently of mitochondria
The mitochondrial dye MitoTracker is commonly used to investigate intercellular mitochondrial transfer (IMT), particularly between astrocytes and neurons. Hole et al. compare MitoTracker with a geneti...
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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine @wythelab.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Fun, but snow filled/delay riddled trip (on both ends) to visit with folks at the Montreal Heart Institue to talk about vascular anomalies. Great talks with faculty, students, and postdocs and some fantastic questions/ideas.
View from the outside of a glass building/research institute. Night view of La Fontaine park with trees and lights covered in a blanket of snow. Crew removing snow from a turbine on a jumbo jet.
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Visit our fully accessible journal archive, providing perpetual access to 34k articles from over a century of pioneering research in developmental biology, cell biology, comparative physiology and biomechanics, including work from 60+ Nobel Prize-winners bit.ly/3PfIjib
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UCSC Genome Browser @genomebrowser.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We've added two gnomAD coverage tracks on human hg38: gnomAD v4 Exome Coverage — mean/median depth & sample % at 1X–100X thresholds across exome samples. gnomAD v3 Genome Coverage — same metrics for 71,702 whole-genome samples. Learn more at: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Joshua noted that the number of applications in the data NIH released includes only applications that were discussed at study section. This is approximately 50% of the applications submitted. I have estimated these numbers in a slightly more sophisticated way, but these are still estimates. 2/25
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Homicide is the 3rd-leading cause of death among American Indian/Alaska Native women and girls between the ages of 10 and 24, and fifth-leading cause of death among women between 25 and 34 years old. Learn more about the statistics of MMIWG in Alaska here: www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/04/05/i... 🧵
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Indigenous echoes: Alaska’s stats on MMIP likely higher, according to study
According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, the first recorded case of a missing and murdered Indigenous woman or girl was in 1943. Two-thirds of all the cases they gathered for a 2025 study were ...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“We can’t afford cancer research but $11 billion for one week of an absurd war is fine” is a hell of an argument
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Preprint: A proteocistromic atlas of 216 human disease-relevant transcription factors www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 12/03/2026
DC pulled off a ridiculous weather flip: 86 Wednesday to as low as 33 with snow today. 53-degree drop is largest 24-hour fall on record at National. 77 today & 86 Wed are warmest same and prior day to snow accumulation, too. Dulles also joined the history book with combo. More: cwg.live ❄️🔥
Temperature change from Wednesday to Thursday afternoon
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Brent Pedersen, Mitchell Vollger and I have "posted" our preprint of the manuscript describing bedder, a complement to the functionality of bedtools. The "preprint server" we have chosen is google docs because it was rejected by biorxiv. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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bedder-manuscript.v10
Bioinformatics, 2026, 0–0 doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/xxxxx Advance Access Publication Date: DD Month YYYY Genome Analysis Genome Analysis bedder: flexible genome interval intersection with user-defi...
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In vivo-directed evolution identifies AAV-WM04 as a next-generation vector for potent and durable hearing restoration in DFNB9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine @wythelab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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a group of cartoon characters with the words stop stop he 's already dead written on the bottom
Alt: a group of characters from the Simpsons cartoon show with one of the kids crying and saying “stop, stop! he 's already dead.”
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We just sent the March edition of our newsletter out to more than 1350 subscribers! It covers our next webinar (which we are very very excited about), city and county budgets, IMPACT’s Nehemiah Action, opportunities to walk/run/bike/roll through Cville, and more! mailchi.mp/livablecvill...
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Livable Cville - March 2026 Newsletter
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very sad news: Becky Burdine's 20-year old daughter Sophie passed away suddenly on Tuesday Becky has been vocal about Sophie, is an @angelmanfoundation.bsky.social advocate, and wants her science/cilia/LR community to know We love you @rburdine1.bsky.social www.matherhodge.com/obituaries/S...
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Obituary information for Sophia Elaine Burdine Schwartz
View Sophia Elaine Burdine Schwartz's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
GetHIRED! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - Application due Thursday, March 5
Ideal for Postdoctoral Researchers
Academic Job Market Insight
-Take stock of what you want
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-Six asynchronous online modules 
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Course Dates: April 14 – June 23, 2026
Course Fee: SDB Members: $499; Non-Members: $599
Deadline: March 5, 2025
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
NIH FY2025 funding data finally emerges on RePORT drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/n...
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NIH FY2025 funding data finally emerges on RePORT
The FY2025 funding picture was disrupted significantly by the mandate for Multi-Year Funding of about half of the budget for extramural awards. This produced a mid-year declaration by NCI that thei…
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.
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Art Walaszek, MD @walaszek.art · 06/03/2026
Fascinating account of trying to find a cure for frontotemporal dementia (FTD): great advances in our understanding of one variant (mutations in GRN resulting in TDP43 proteinopathy) but no success yet with respect to treatment. www.science.org/content/arti... #medsky
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Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?
Inspired by the loss of their mother, they have poured millions into studying a key protein behind frontotemporal dementia. But all has not gone according to plan
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Genetically altered chimeric antigen receptor astrocytes targeting amyloid-β reduce a cardinal pathological feature of Alzheimer’s disease @science.org @washumedicine.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/03/2026
4 corporate Democrats funded by AIPAC voted with MAGA to let Trump continue to wage illegal war on Iran.😐 •Henry Cuellar: 202-225-1640 •Jared Golden: 202-225-6306 •Greg Landsman:202-225-2216 •Juan Vargas: 202-225-8045 Call & remind them we reject their complicity in fascism Jeffries should resign.
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Wythe Lab at UVA School of Medicine @wythelab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
awesome @navbo.bsky.social webinar today from Dr. Sarah Sheppard at the NIH on lymphatic malformations!
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
$1B per day and $4B so far of your tax dollars to kill 1000 people in 4 days And they are just getting warmed up Let that sink in
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New preprint out! In this study, we introduce NanoFLex, a strategy that combines #HaloTag variants with #nanobodies -based immunolabeling to enable rapid, OneStep-IF #lifetime #multiplexing. Possible due to SmartSecondaries fused to #HaloTag from @nanotag.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
There are two meetings this Wednesday evening you should consider attending. First, at 6pm at Lane Auditorium the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will be hear the FY 27 budget proposal, followed by public comment. We encourage you to show up and request more funding for affordable housing.
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
latest preprint just dropped! From a fantastic collaboration between our lab and Katie Pollard's @gladstoneinst.bsky.social. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social graduate student Jodi Lee jodilee539.bsky.social and Gladstone postdoc Jingshing Wu led the project www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/x
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/03/2026
LRSomatic: a highly scalable and robust [Nextflow] pipeline for somatic variant calling in long-read sequencing data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/intgenomicsl...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NAL is deadNMB is deadARM is dead
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What would you think if a hypothetical biology professor at a hypothetical public university in a state starting with an N, who was involved in helping organize a Stand Up for Science Rally this week, and got a visit from their hypothetical Department chair and... 1/2
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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
AAV9 is now available through Addgene's Packaged on Request service. With 4,000+ eligible cargo plasmids available, what would you like packaged in AAV9 for your next experiment? Learn more: twp.ai/4ivYPg
Promotional graphic announcing “AAV Packaged on Request – AAV9 now available!” with illustrated tubes and Addgene logo.
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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Happy to share a write-up of our recent publication @natcomms.nature.com demonstrating how circumferential actomyosin-driven endothelial cell contractions constrict vessel diameter, providing insights into mechanisms of normal vessel remodelling and CCM. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/rese...
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When vessel constriction fails: Cellular mechanics linking developmental remodeling to vascular malformations
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UCSC Genome Browser @genomebrowser.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are happy to announce the JASPAR 2026 tracks for hg38, mm39, danRer11, galGal6, dm6, ce11, ci3, and sacCer3, which represent genome-wide predicted binding sites for transcription factors with binding profiles in the JASPAR CORE collection. More info: bit.ly/JASPAR...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 18/02/2026
My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
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Assistant Professor Vertebrate Functional Morphologist #26-24
The Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Vertebrate Functional Morphology.
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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Another reminder as we've crossed into the second half of February. There's still time to apply for the Neurobiology Chair position at Duke University! Just send in a letter of interest and CV by Feb 28. Love of Duke basketball is not required.
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