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Jim Sun, PhD

@sunlab.bsky.social

Principal Investigator at The University of British Columbia studying tuberculosis, macrophages, drug discovery. www.thesunlab.ca

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Another #WorldTBDay and so begins another year where #tuberculosis will remain the leading cause of infectious diseases related deaths globally.

Let's all remember that TB has not disappeared and we need all hands on deck to #EndTB

Excited to start reading #EverythingisTB!!

25.03.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to announce that PacTB 2025 will be hosted at UBC this year and is now open for registrations! We are also thrilled to have Dr. Maz Divangahi as the keynote speaker! Registration is free thanks to our amazing sponsors!

Check out the website and register:
mbim.ubc.ca/node/1284

21.01.2025 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to Hannah Siushansian for rocking your MSc defence!πŸŽ‰πŸ₯‚ This completes a trifecta of successful theses defences from our lab in the past month! We are very thankful for your contributions to our research and best of luck in med school!

14.11.2024 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A macroevolution-inspired approach to reveal novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms

Charles Darwin and Robert Koch walked into a bar... find out the outcome of this interaction here:

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

14.11.2024 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Postdoctoral Fellow - Parish Lab Postdoctoral Fellow at Seattle Children’s Research Institute - Dr. Tanya Parish Lab: Tuberculosis remains the largest cause of death from a bacterial infection with >1 million deaths in 2023. The P...

we have a vacancy for a new/recently qualified post-doctoral fellow in our chemistry group - apply here #WomenInStem 🦠πŸ§ͺ #TBDrugDiscovery

14.11.2024 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

27.10.2023 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

Tenure track assistant professor position at Duke in integrative immunobiology, wonderful colleagues and science. Applications due October 15 with lots of details about the search here:
immunobiology.duke.edu

06.10.2023 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Microbiologists, as requested we have a feed: MicroSky! Use this form to sign up: forms.gle/kiPC8vDKGDZV... and then tag posts with #MicroSky (case insensitive) or 🧫 or 🦠 and enjoy! Thanks to @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social for getting this going

07.09.2023 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
Careers | Microbiology & Immunology @ UBC

We are looking for a fulltime Research Associate to grow with our team @UBCMicroImmuno! Come join us @UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Deadline on Sept 22!
Details at: microbiology.ubc.ca/careers#RA%2...
Please share with anyone that may be interested!
#TB #pathogens #macrophages #immunity

07.09.2023 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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