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Associate prof @UMontreal. Quebec Canada. Developmental Biologist & Epigeneticist. Mouse Embryos | Embryonic & Pluripotent Stem Cells | Cortical Organoids | Omics | NeuroDev | #DoHAD #TBRS #FASD Research.

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The recruitment campaign is on! Weโ€™re seeking outstanding MSc, PhD, and Postdoctoral candidates to join @cra-chusj.bsky.social . If youโ€™re passionate about epigenetics, development, and neurodevelopment, consider exploring the opportunities available in my lab.
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08.10.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Queenโ€™s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown... Queenโ€™s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here๐Ÿ‘‡

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

05.06.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1913    ๐Ÿ” 1442    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 105
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EMBO Gold Medal 2025 awarded to Tanmay Bharat and David Bikard โ€“ Press releases โ€“ EMBO Every year, EMBO awards the Gold Medal to group leaders in the early stages of their careers for their remarkable contributions to the life sciences in

EMBO is delighted to announce that this year the EMBO Gold Medal is awarded to Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social โ€ฌ @mrclmb.bsky.social and David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social @pasteur.fr for their remarkable contributions to the #LifeSciences.

www.embo.org/press-releas...
#award ๐Ÿงช

05.06.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 80    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Congrats to all winners! ...but especially to own, Michelle Robb, for the Best Poster Award at #DOHaDCanada2025! Michelle presented our recent advances on Early Embryonic Alcohol Exposure ! ๐Ÿ†

14.05.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, #DOHaDCanada2025, for organizing and for the invitation to present our work on Early Embryonic Prenatal Alcohol Exposure! #FASD #DOHaD #communautรฉFRQ

14.05.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to our co-president, Dr. Kristin Connor (@kconnor.bsky.social), for being awarded the Nick Hales Award by the International DOHaD Society. #DOHaD2025

13.05.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724) 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 ...

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

24.04.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paper Out๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฅณ thanks to ALL authors, Nakatani-san @tamas-schauer.bsky.social @palmrinmoy.bsky.social and bluesky-less

RIF1 regulates Replication Timing in mouse embryos & (suprising) findings disentangling effects on transcription and LADs...lots to think about ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿค”

๐Ÿ‘‰ www.cell.com/developmenta...

21.04.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Le cochon dโ€™Inde : un modรจle animal prometteur pour lโ€™รฉtude de lโ€™embryon humain Sophie Petropoulos, chercheuse au CRCHUM, et son รฉquipe rรฉvรจlent pour la premiรจre fois que lโ€™embryon prรฉimplantatoire de cochon dโ€™Inde est trรจs similaire ร  lโ€™embryon humain, ce qui ouvre la voie ร  une...

Sophie Petropoulos, chercheuse au CRCHUM, et son รฉquipe rรฉvรจlent pour la premiรจre fois que lโ€™embryon prรฉimplantatoire de cochon dโ€™Inde est trรจs similaire ร  lโ€™embryon humain, ce qui ouvre la voie ร  une meilleure comprรฉhension de lโ€™infertilitรฉ et du dรฉveloppement humain prรฉcoce.

10.04.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The guinea pig serves as an alternative model to study human preimplantation development - Nature Cell Biology Petropoulos and colleagues perform single-cell transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses, and show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human embryogenesis.

๐Ÿฅ‚Congratulations to Petropoulos & co for their new Open Access study in our journal (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social): single-cell #transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human #embryogenesis.
bit.ly/3RaRwWY

09.04.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Lim Lab at the @crchum.bsky.social is recruiting PhD students or Postdoctoral Fellows to study the roles of 14-3-3zeta in #adipocytes or pancreatic #betacells.

Projects are supported by CIHR, NSERC, or Diabetes Canada.

Please share with people who might be interested!

Thanks!

13.04.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I urge folks to sign this letter and share it with their university colleagues to get critical mass.

12.04.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Assistant or Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Biology or Health Sciences or Neuroscience (Human Metabolic Disease) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Plannin... About the Position The Faculty of Science invites applications for a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) appointment in Biology, as applicable to Human Meta...

๐Ÿ”ŠShare widely!
Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease!

Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15!

Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field?

Apply now!!!!

carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

08.04.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Dear USA colleagues, paradoxically the environment is warmer for doing science north of the border.โ™ฅ๏ธ

08.04.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Just because you are unique doesnโ€™t mean you are useful over a picture of a wooden headed axe.

Just because you are unique doesnโ€™t mean you are useful over a picture of a wooden headed axe.

This should save grant reviewers a lot of time on some of those proposalsโ€ฆ..

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Argonautes 2025 will cover progress in:

Structural insights
Effector complexes: formation, composition & function
Post-transcriptional silencing
Transcriptional silencing & DNA cleavage
Post-translational modifications and regulations
Medical aspects

27-30/8/2025
argonautes.img.cas.cz

Pls RT!

04.04.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Conference - CCRA

For Canadian cancer researchers concerned about travelling to the US (๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ), please check out and plan to be at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference in Calgary this November. All welcome. www.ccra-acrc.ca/conference/

03.04.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a baby is saying thank you with a serious look on his face . ALT: a baby is saying thank you with a serious look on his face .

Thank you @stemcellnetwork.ca for internship scholarship to the lab to support the next generation of stem cell scientists!!

30.03.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

28.03.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (C1-250306) 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 ...

Come by my colleague!! Assistant professor position in molecular neurobiology at @mcgill.ca and the Lady Davis Institute! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Montreal is an amazing city and the Lady Davis is a great institute to work at!

27.03.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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๐ŸŒŸ SAVE THE DATE: Talent Forum 2025!

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ November 18โ€“19
๐Ÿ“ @www.helmholtz-munich.deโ€ฌ, Germany

Showcase your research and network with global talents in #Epigenetics & Nucleic Acids Research!

Apply by July 31 for a speaker spot โ€”travel & accommodation covered.

๐Ÿ”œ Website coming soon!

25.03.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Assistant / Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - Montrรฉal, Quebec (CA) job with McGill University | 12837963 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences โ€“ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Toxicology (L000054

๐Ÿ“ฃ Tenure track job alert! Assistant and associate tenure-track position at McGill University in toxicology and/or pharmacology. I know the department very well and could not speak more highly of the supportive environment it provides and of its leadership!

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

24.03.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now seems like a great time to share a starter pack I made when I joined BlueSky! Let me know if you'd like to be added: go.bsky.app/6aMSMpy

22.03.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CEEHRC March 21, 2025 - Arrowsmith & Horvath. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Canadian Epigenetics, Environment and Health Research Consortium (CEEHRC) Network is a network run by epigenetic researchers from across Canada, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Researc...

Our next seminar is this Friday, March 21!

This week, we welcome Drs. Cheryl Arrowsmith and Riley Horvath from @uoft.bsky.social where they will discuss pharmacological tools for manipulating the #epigenome.

Register at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

17.03.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This. But also we are up against the fact that academic scientists in particular are often unprepared to think of ourselves as workers, build solidarity, and take collective action. This moment is going to require a really big pivot!

15.03.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Head, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences - UBC Faculty of Medicine Ranked among the worldโ€™s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across Bri...

We are hiring our next Department Head. If interested, you will be joining a great team of committed researchers and teachers. ๐Ÿ‘‡

www.med.ubc.ca/careers/admi...

13.03.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 425    ๐Ÿ” 161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Thanks, Sandra!

12.03.2025 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Julien!

12.03.2025 10:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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