@jucarvag
Postdoc at Vanderbilt University studying how bacteria mutate, evolve, and repair their DNA. PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from The University of North Carolina. Biotecnólogo por la Universidad de Oviedo. Asturiano en Tennessee.
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Cool new preprint from the Merrikh lab, from the awesome brand new Dr, Öykü Şensoy!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Today, and everyday, Go Heels
Tampoco está España para tirar cohetes. Comparando los datos de la gráfica con los de este artículo (elpais.com/salud-y-bien...), hay más casos por persona que en EEUU
Excited to announce our latest publication in reporting evidence for three (3!) new whole genome duplications (WGDs) in yeasts. Scientists have often wondered why WGD is so rare in fungi, it turns out we may just not have been looking hard enough! 🧪 🍄 🧬
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...
One of those red cards for Real Oviedo was given to Arsenal legend Santi Cazorla, who came back to his childhood team two years ago!
May I suggest Real Oviedo as your La Liga team? Even if we might go back down to the second division this year. Here is a very good primer on its recent history www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Keep Pounding
Group photo of faculty, trainees, alumni, and staff from the Evolutionary Studies Initiative standing together at the ESI Retreat. The group is arranged in several rows inside an industrial event space with exposed beams and wood floors, smiling toward the camera. A holiday wreath hangs on the wall behind them, and tables with notebooks and coffee cups are visible in the foreground. The photo captures a large, interdisciplinary academic community gathered for a full-day retreat.
Last week, faculty, trainees, alumni and friends gathered for our annual retreat. It was a day of talks, trivia and conversation spanning #evolution, medicine, ecology, and genomics. A great reminder of the interdisciplinary community that makes ESI work. More retreat highlights soon…
Nadie ha cantado mejor sobre el duelo. Joder que tristeza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WP...
Hoy se sale, y se bebe. Robe Iniesta, el más grande. youtu.be/3tYVVuv18s0?...
This is where I live! Obviously I can't vote, but I will be looking very expectantly for the results on Tuesday!
Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
I saw! I have no idea where that came from! It is not in the Spanish Wikipedia article...
Related to the game on the top left: I am from Oviedo, and was a Real Oviedo season ticket holder until I moved to the US, I have never heard of the team referred to as "Los Godos"
If you're new to Nashville, some info in a 🧵. Our tornado season here runs from tonight (when we start getting Fall cold fronts) until about June. While tonight's severe/tornado risk is pretty low, this is good practice for later. (1/6)
1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced
the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed
🧬 Preprint alert!
"Distinct ATRX functions cooperate with 9-1-1 and CST complexes to safeguard replication and telomere integrity."
Read the manuscript here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
One of my childhood heroes. An incredible woman.
UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics will soon post openings for tenure-track junior faculty positions! Information about the search is at this website: www.med.unc.edu/biochem/join.... The link to apply will be shared here too as soon as it's live. Join us!
Are you interested in working on related projects? 🌱
The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position.
Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs
We ARE…HIRING POSTDOCS!!
The Hedglin Lab at PSU is looking for PhD graduates interested in biophysical & kinetic investigations of human DNA replication pathways. Further details of the position are below. Please spread the word & DM with any questions.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
We were one of the lucky ones to receive our NCI award. We have an open postdoctoral fellow or research tech position in the group. If you (or anyone you know) has strong expertise in structural biology or cell biology (genomic instability mechanisms) please reach out. www.antonylab.org
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?
Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
I am very grateful that my department has decided to support me in my transition into an independent investigator position (wherever that might be) by naming me a Destination Biochemistry Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar!
medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...