Marc Swidergall

Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road

We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 1st October

New Research Shows the HPV Cancer Vaccine Saves Lives Learn why MSK recommends that children be vaccinated against HPV.

The number of cervical cancer cases and deaths among American women dropped after the HPV vaccine was introduced in 2006

www.mskcc.org/news/new-res...

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congrats to my friend Nick @jendzjowsky.bsky.social and his team on his R01

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Research Fellow - Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy - 106119 - Grade 7 The successful candidate will make extensive use of a range of in vivo models of fungal infection and will have access to the wide range of transgenic tools and in vivo immunology techniques establish...

Job ads for TWO postdoctoral positions available in our group are now online. Deadline August 25th.
🧪Immunologists, apply in link below.
🍄Microbiologists- please follow link in next post.
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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment Nature Microbiology - This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment

New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com

Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI-generated drawing of a woman looking through a microscope with DNA and fungi drawn in the background. The text contains the same content as the bsky post.

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share!

More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia Fungal Pathogens Meeting Promo

The abstract and scholarship deadline is fast approaching for the Keystone Fungal Pathogens meeting #KSFungalPath26 ! Submit your work by 16th Sept to join the fabulous line-up of invited speakers, featured in the video below (also includes submission links!)
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Metabolic imprinting drives epithelial memory during mucosal fungal infection Epithelial cells at barrier sites are emerging as active participants in innate immune memory, yet the underlying metabolic and epigenetic mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we uncover a previously unre...

Check out our new preprint Metabolic imprinting drives epithelial memory during mucosal #fungal infection. Thanks to all collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

Congrats Felipe 👏much deserved

We just received new funding to study human early-life B-cell and plasma cell immunity (including mucosal immunity to respiratory viral infections).

We are seeking a new researcher with expertise in B-cell biology to join our team! Send me a message!

Candida and Candidiasis 2025 06 - 09 October 2025

Society Event Grant – applications for funding to attend Candida and Candidiasis 2025 are now open. Check your eligibility and apply before the deadline 23 June 2025 at 23:59 BST - microb.io/CandidaCandi...

Congrats Teresa 👏well deserved

Please repost: We are looking for a postdoc interested in antifungal immunity to study T cell responses and sensitization to Malasezia in atopic dermatitis. #Immunology @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Please repost: We are looking for a postdoc interested in Fungal Cell Wall Research to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🧠Job Opening!🧠

We are opening 2️⃣! positions
– bioinformatics / molecular biology –
in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue.
@institutimagine.bsky.social.

Full details below, contact me for details if interested.
And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

As "Phase II" of our lab @leibniz-hki.de, we are looking to fill a few positions. 🧪 Positions are:

1) Postdoc in host-fungal interactions
2) Doctoral Researcher in fungal RNA regulation
3) Doctoral Researcher in host-fungal RNA biology

I will share the job ads once live. #RNA

Congrats Amelia 👏

We are still recruiting a B-cell immunologist to join our team and lead projects funded by the Gates Foundation and NIH. If you are looking for a postdoc or a more senior Staff Scientist position, please apply!

Please repost to help reach out to our colleagues affected by recent RIFs. Thank you!

Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

My lab is looking for a postdoctoral fellow (Metagenome/Metabolome/Human digestive tract #microbiome).
The position is available immediately and involves working with existing datasets from our lab. #postdoc #postdoctoral
Location: USA - Omaha, Nebraska
Apply at: unmc.peopleadmin.com/postings/91621