Meredith Salisbury

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

Don't miss this brilliant coverage of the effects of brutal cuts to biomedical research funding from @statnews.com. Part of a series, this piece is a great deep dive into the amazing lab of @johnquackenbush.bsky.social - and the ramifications of funding loss.

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

For Pediatric Cancer, Genomic Profiling Helps Guide Patient Care Newly released progress report from cancer research group emphasizes how much has been accomplished — and how much remains to be done

Great to see the new pediatric cancer progress report from @theaacr.bsky.social. I reported on that and some related info on cancer genomic profiling from this year's #AMPath25 meeting in my latest article:

salisburys-take.beehiiv.com/p/for-pediat...

Bird Flu Update: H5N1 Virus Still Widely Circulating This strain of avian influenza is still running rampant, but thankfully it has not yet evolved to enable respiratory transmission

It isn't too common these days to get real insight into the state of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak here in the U.S. - that's why I really enjoyed a recent talk about it at the annual #AMPath25 meeting. Wrote it up for this week's newsletter:

salisburys-take.beehiiv.com/p/bird-flu-u...

$100 Million Grant Awarded for the Prevention of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Winners of the unique MacArthur Foundation grant competition are already helping to prevent pandemics

Delighted to report on the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant awarded to the Sentinel project, co-led by Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi. It aims to enable infectious disease surveillance and prevent future pandemics. salisburys-take.beehiiv.com/p/100-millio...

Kitty cannoli.

Beating the Odds: How People Stay Healthy When Their Genomes Should Be Causing Disease With massive data dive, scientists look for clues about why some people with disease-causing genetic variants remain healthy

In rare cases, people with severe disease-causing genetic mutations never actually get sick. What's up with that? I reported on a new study from the gnomAD team that aimed to find an answer.

salisburys-take.beehiiv.com/p/beating-th...

Stained axons

@andreaserio.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc to lead an exciting MNDA-funded project using multi-omics to study long axons in motor neurons and how they shape susceptibility to #ALS.

Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December:
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Are you looking for a #tenuretrack or #openrank job in #biostatistics or #statistics? @fredhutch.org is hiring! Seattle is a wonderful place to grow your career; the bio/stat & science scene here is world-class; and you will work w/ amazing UW Biostat students. Apply!
apply.interfolio.com/176402

NJ Voter Information Portal NJ Voter information about the Elections.

New Jersey today is Election Day! Your voice is your vote. To find your polling place or get help go to vote.nj.gov

Brilliant or Bumbling? AI Tools Aren’t Quite Ready for Genetic Diagnosis Large language models show promise as an assistant to clinical experts, but they’re not ready for prime time

At #ASHG25 there were some great talks about assessments of the potential for using AI tools in clinical genetics diagnosis. The results were a mixed bag, which I wrote about here: salisburys-take.beehiiv.com/p/brilliant-...

Even in the chaos of biomedical research right now it was wonderfully reassuring to see Francis Collins speaking at #ASHG25.

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Scientific Community Manager EMBL is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and teams performing scientific research in disci...

The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at Univers... Apply for Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Man...

My colleagues and I here at UVA are looking to hire a skilled #Rstats developer. You'll be working with me on the project. Here's the posting: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

We're hiring! My team at @nygenome.org is looking for a statistical genetics postdoc to decipher functional architecture of complex diseases from cutting-edge CRISPR+scRNA-seq data, with @nevillesanjana.bsky.social lab. Happy to meet at #ASHG25, apply here
jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...

After all the uncertainty, I got my annual Covid shot. Thank you, CVS!

We’re excited to share a Postdoc Opening in the Burkard Lab @iowa /Holden Cancer Center. The fellow will study mitotic regulation in normal & cancer cells, exploring drug response & resistance in human samples, organoids, & preclinical models. Spread the word!
📅 Apply by 3/1/26
📧 mburkard@uiowa.edu

An exciting opportunity for recent PhD graduates. bit.ly/ShanahanFellow

Just scheduled my flu and Covid shots, and now I'll spend the next week wondering if CVS will actually allow me to get the Covid booster when I show up. I haven't felt this much uncertainty since the vaccines were first introduced and we were frantically refreshing websites at 2 am to claim a spot!

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Measles outbreak growing in parts of Arizona and Utah, health officials say Measles vaccination rates have plummeted in the neighboring communities over the last 10 years.

One of the largest measles outbreaks in the U.S. is now centered in bordering areas of southwestern Utah and Arizona.

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Moments Lab

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!

www.momentslab.org

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

About time, NJ.

Congenital rubella syndrome and autism spectrum disorder prevented by rubella vaccination--United States, 2001-2010 - PubMed We estimate that rubella vaccination prevented substantial numbers of CRS and ASD cases in the United States from 2001 through 2010. These findings provide additional incentive to maintain high measle...

MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies)

At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.

Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.

🧵

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/

I've been thinking of that very thing but I need to use MS Office all the time and have heard it doesn't load on Linux. What's your fix?

NERLSCD | A regional chapter of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Exploring New Technologies to Drive Advances in Basic, Clinical and Translational Research.

If anyone here on BlueSky directs or works in a shared resource/core facility and lives in the northeast of the US (or southeast of Canada!) please consider coming to NERLSCD 2025 in New Haven from October 8-10. We have great keynotes and tracks for genomics, flow cytometry, imaging, admin and more!