David LV Bauer

Screenshot of video from Zewald & Auersperg 2025: A white cockatoo is perched on the rim of a shallow red food dish with purple yogurt inside. The cockatoo is using one foot to hold a yogurt-covered piece of pasta up to its beak.

Scientists observe captive cockatoos dipping their pasta in blueberry soy yogurt, confirm cockatoos are actually 8-year-old human children www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧪

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)

royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Four years in the making, our paper is finally out! This was an enormous team effort and a great end to my time at @crick.ac.uk in @davidlvbauer.bsky.social 's lab 🧪🦠🧬

Postdoctoral Researcher in Structural Virology This project is focused on deciphering the role of virally encoded AAA+ ATPases in the replication cycles of Enteroviruses and Noroviruses.

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant.

If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch!

Application deadline: January 19th.

Please share with your networks 🙏

Job link: tiny.cc/7v33001

Liver on a bear

Whoa, we’re halfway there, whoa-oh,

Big news! We're looking for a new Professor (or Associate Professor) in Infection and/or Immunity! Come work with us in @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social, it's a collaborative and supportive environment with great resources, students and colleagues!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
Deadline 26/1/25 (Pls RT)

Are you a #postdoc with an innovative vision for starting your own lab in #Syntheticbiology, #Genomics, #GeneRegulation, #Development, #Cancer, #Immunology or #InfectionBiology?

@IMPvienna is inviting applications for group leader positions: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Pls share!

Are there any science sleuths from Africa here? Do you know any? Trying to diversify my network.
Science sleuth = anyone scanning the scientific literature for problems or potential fraud, in images, tables, statistics, etc.
Hit me in DM or here.
Thank you ❤️

Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets Precision Medicine Project - Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets

PhD opportunity in our lab at Edinburgh University! Analysing CRISPR screens for proviral and antiviral factors focusing on coronaviruses and influenza A virus. Using a mix of wet lab and computational approaches (full training provided).
#ViroSky #ImmunoSky

usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

Awesome starter pack! Glad to be added, too.

David LV Bauer

More details & how to apply:
🟥Postdoc (in vivo) – 13th Oct: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
🟥Postdoc (molecular) – 13th Oct: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
🟥PhD position – 5th Nov: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
ℹ️ crick.ac.uk/research/lab...

YouTube video by Francis Crick Institute Why work at the Crick?

@thecrick.bsky.social is a great place to work, with fantastic core facilities and a friendly, positive atmosphere. Don't just take my word for it:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCD...
There’s also a large amount of training and support for students & postdocs to develop their own careers... 2/n

Join the RNA Virus Replication Lab @thecrick.bsky.social, Europe's largest biomedical institute under 1 roof!
🔴 TWO postdocs (4-6yrs)
🔴 ONE PhD student (4yrs, fully funded, all🌍)
We’re looking for bright, motivated people, with the chance to develop & shape projects independently... 1/n

Yet another new position @dunnschool.bsky.social

Associate professor, immunity/inflammation/infection (defined broadly) especially welcome

Come and join a great community of supportive colleagues

Deadline 25 October, please spread the word

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

(surely in UK academia, it's always jumper season!?)

Welll.... maybe you can buy success in that case: www.marksandspencer.com/l/men/mens-k... & skip the ironing 🙃

Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3... expensive but worth it! Battery life is amazing, works with Mac & PC (and can pair with multiple laptops easily)

Do you want to join our global community in the heart of London? Watch the video, and visit our website to find out more. www.crick.ac.uk Why work at the Crick?

Just to add... @TheCrick is a great place to work — filled with people from diverse backgrounds who love science. Don't just take my word for it:
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=OeCD... …
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ℹ️We're looking for a talented bioinformatician to join our team @TheCrick on a permanent contract...
🧬If you've got experience with genomic data,
🦠and an interest in working with us on cool molecular virology projects,
🗓️apply by 7 June,
👉here: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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I went on a minor etymological odyssey (I promise this is neat but it needs a couple posts) because of immunology bc I recently found out that the Russian term for “mast cell” is «тучная клетка», and being me I inherently assumed that «тучный» shared an etymology with «туча», meaning thundercloud…

This past autumn, the UK 🇬🇧 decided to use up older bivalent COVID boosters "at the back of the fridge" before switching to the WHO-recommended XBB ones.

A pragmatic choice to start the booster campaign on time (both work, but different extents), but 💡 lessons for next year:

🧵 tinyurl.com/zhpsk32c

In new study led by Andrea Loes, we develop sequencing-based neutralization assay that measures replicate curves for hundreds of virus-serum pairs per 96-well plate (see image below)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
 
We apply assay to characterize response to repeat influenza vaccination

Next Steps for the COVID-19 Vaccine Program.

Interesting slide deck on proposed frameworks for how COVID-19 vaccines will be updated.

It essentially follows the annual flu model. IMO useless for COVID as it does not effectively consider/counter rapid rate of evolution.

www.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...

Schematic of HsMX1 activity within an influenza A virus infected cell and IF image showing IAV vRNP clusters

Delighted to share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study, led by our former PhD student and microscopy lover Joe McKellar, shows that human restriction factor MX1 associates transiently to trafficking, neo-synthesized influenza A virus vRNPs, ...

Joan Steitz: A Champion for RNA and Women in Science In November 1967, 26-year-old Joan Steitz walked into the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK. Fresh off completing a molecular biology PhD at Harvard, Steitz eagerly awaited a ...

Lasker Foundation story on Joan Steitz. #RNAbiology
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