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We are hiring #postdocs and grad students with training in #chembio #molecularbiology #morphology #genomics #venomics . The Holford Lab is doing novel things in #venom research and we want you to help us lead the way!! holfordlab.com
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Did you know venom could actually be used to heal or treat disease? 🐍 The museum’s @anemonegoddess, went overseas to find out the latest in venom bio-application development as a part of her Winston Churchill Fellowship.
Read Michela’s report here: bit.ly/3Q4rHab
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Please spread the word: a funded PhD position for UK students of Black heritage to study effects of climate change on venom composition in local jellyfish and sea anemone species! Deadline - January 8.
findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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Very proud to share our new study on the evolution of genomic regulatory regions in Drosophila species. Sam, Eric and the lab studied sequence determinants underlying chromatin accessibility using deep neural networks genomebiology.biomedcentral.…. #Genomics #Drosophila #DeepLearning
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The 2023 WoD Awards Gala is officially less than 2 weeks away! This year will have an incredible live auction you won't want to miss out on! You will get the chance to win amazing prizes & once in a lifetime adventures. Stay tuned as we reveal our auction items the next few days!
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📣WOOHOO!! Amazing news!! Pioneer indeed! So very #proud of Dr. Mandë Holford (@scimaven ). killer Snails love to hear good news about venom research 😁@NIH_CommonFund @NIHDirector
So very excited to receive an @NIHDirector Pioneer Award! Venom research is on the rise ! #toxinTuesday @grcvenom @Hunter_College @GC_CUNY @AMNH
So very excited to receive an @NIHDirector Pioneer Award! Venom research is on the rise ! #toxinTuesday @grcvenom @Hunter_College @GC_CUNY @AMNH
The @NIHDirector's Pioneer Award funds researchers from all career stages pursuing groundbreaking new ideas to tackle significant challenges in behavioral, #SocialScience, & #BiomedicalResearch. Meet this year’s awardees: commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/A…
#NIHHighRisk
ALT Graphic depicts portraits of the 7 award recipients of the 2023 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
Super excited to receive the @NIHDirector Pioneer award!! Lot’s of good science ahead!!
Congratulations to Prof. Mandë Holford (@scimaven), who is the first-ever CUNY researcher to win a prestigious @NIH Pioneer award! The award will total more than $47.7M over five years for her trailblazing research on venom gc.cuny.edu/news/mande-holfo… @gc_biochemphd @GC_ChemistryPhD
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I’m thrilled to welcome Assistant Professor @AprilLukowski to @Scripps_Ocean & @UCSDSkaggsSOP. Her first day on the job was in the lab chasing a new enzyme biocatalyst! We’re thrilled to have you as a colleague
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Fashionably late is more my style anyways.
Hey everyone! I’m Briana and I’m an assistant professor at @UcChem! I am a synthetic polymer chemist taking a health equity approach to the design of functional biomaterials! Happy #BlackInChemWeek2023 #BlackInChemRollCall
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Come and get more exciting and cold science!
New brown dwarf candidates have been posted at coolneighbors.org, with even more on the way later today! Stay tuned! @backyardworlds
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What a great find! Mystrium are undisputedly among the world’s coolest ants:
Such a beauty! A rare Mystrium sp., found by @ant_explorer during the Ant Course 2023 in Papua New Guinea. @AntsProject
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Killer Snails launches immersive environmental science curriculum supplement for Grades 3-5! Developed with @HudsonRiverPark, @theWCS, @MountSinaiNYC, check it out here: ctt.ec/U338X prn.to/3J9H4eI
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Congrats to prior @BWFUND #bwfpdep awardees on their being selected as Inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars! @HHMINEWS
#bwfdiversity #bwfden @IshmailSaboor @Neal_Lab @davidvanvalen @DJuanFarmer1 @walt_gonzalez
Very happy to see so many friends on @HHMINEWS #FHScholars list! Congratulations @bjmarlin @MarmolJosefina @IshmailSaboor @KizzyPhD . Excited to see where your science takes you and us! 🎉🥳
@nytimes on my NYC doorstep this morning !!!!!!!
@HHMINEWS FREEMAN HRABOWSKI SCHOLARS PROGRAM #FHScholars
I'll explain later today what this program is and why it will be transformative
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..Where public health practice meets science meets activism, there you’ll find us! So proud of @UrbanBetter #Cityzens4CleanAir for showing how youth & data can drive demand for healthy public places. Join us 💪🏾@InnovAfricaUP @CleanAirFund @YGLvoices theguardian.com/global-devel…
Today we are featured in The Guardian showcasing our #Cityzens4CleanAir approach to #AirQuality measurement courtesy of @ootchey ‘A precision approach to activism’: distance runners join fight against Africa’s air pollution. @CleanAirFund @AirQoProject theguardian.com/global-devel…
📣We need to retain talented postdocs in academia. Let @NIH know how we do that. Salary is one of the issues… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…
Thanks for the leading with new policies @leslievosshall @HHMINEWS
We can all influence the @NIH!
They need to hear from scientists on the topic of postdoc salaries - and yes lab budgets would need to be adjusted to avoid an unfunded mandate
They are collecting input - deadline is tomorrow April 14, 2023 @NIH grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…
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A fantastic resource has recently been published detailing the neurotoxins found in viper/colubrid snake venoms. Neurotoxins are typically associated with elapid snake venoms so really interesting to see all the work done in this area! #snakebite #snake mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2919
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How AlphaFold2.3 gave us an answer that 2.2 did not: Tetramer of human Protein Phosphatase 2A (light orange)+scaffold subunit (green)+substrate-determining subunit B55alpha (steel)+FAM122A (orange)- a substrate-like inhibitor. Fun collab with @GranaX_Lab biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Wow, #AlphaFold 2.3 is producing great results on protein complexes that did not work in 2.1 or 2.2. Previously we would get proteins or peptides not bound at all, or poor iPTM scores & inconsistent results from models 1-5. Now on several systems we get results that make sense.
Great #MarchMadness take @MBL… I’m betting on the hummingbird bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi) for the win!! I’m biased because it’s the one with #venom! 🦑 #MBLMarchMadness @grcvenom
The MBL is committed to expanding the range of organisms used as biological models and create the next generation of genetically tractable research organisms.
The four contests in the #MBLMarchMadness New Research Organisms Division represent some of these biological models.
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ALT 3 bat sea stars in a glass dish
ALT Hummingbird bobtail squid
ALT Brachinous rotifer with offspring