Alan WACQUIEZ, PhD 🦠🦇🔬🥼🧫🧪

The search for the next Bart Lab postdoc at UC Berkeley got put on pause while we were busy setting up the lab. But now I'm starting to review applications and its not too late to reach out, if you're interested!

Today in @ScienceTM, we report the use of in vivo adenine base editing to correct a variant causing Dravet syndrome, a severe childhood epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorder, substantially ameliorating disease symptoms and extending lifespan in an animal model. 1/13 drive.google.com/file/d/12rcxew…

Want to do a PhD combining cryo-EM, AI-driven binder design, and deep virology in a cutting-edge environment and in an international team? We're hiring @CSSB_Hamburg 🔬 You: curious, rigorous, MSc in biochem, biophysics, virology, or related. Interested? DM me. Please RT 🙏 #PhDposition #cryoEM #virology

Meet NovoTags, a new class of fluorescent imaging probes that combines AI-driven protein design from #HHMIInvestigator David Baker w/ ultra-bright dyes from Janelia’s Luke Lavis, enabling scientists to watch dozens of proteins inside a cell at once: bit.ly/4noBb06.

The Virology Group at @AreaSciencePark (Trieste, Italy) is looking for ambitious researchers to co-develop a joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal 1/2 Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/m…… #MSCAPF #PostdocJobs #Virology #HorizonEU

We’re hiring! Join the Weber Lab at the University of Iowa to study Chlamydia effector biology, centrosome regulation, vesicular trafficking, and innate immunity. Please share!

Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity @cellhostmicrobe cell.com/cell-host-micr… @AiingLim @Princeton

If anybody needs reagents, we do have nice Andesvirus specific mAbs that we are happy to share (here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32209676/) and unpublished broadly neutralizing hantavirus mAbs. Just shoot me an email.

We’re hiring! Our department at @OHSUNews is recruiting for a tenure-track faculty position. We seek outstanding candidates working broadly in molecular microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen interactions. Please share widely! nature.com/naturecareers/…

The Lareau Lab is hiring! We’re looking for a senior research technician to work on projects in computational virology and protein engineering. This is a great opportunity to gain exposure to AI-driven protein design! More details here: careers.mskcc.org/vacancies/9763…

In a genome not so far away, the most elegant design in the galaxy was already wrapped into ~147 base pairs. #HappyNucleosomeDay, May-The-Fourth Be With You.

In @MolecularCell: RNA polymerase, the enzyme that synthesizes RNA from DNA during transcription, has been captured mid-reaction for the first time by scientists in Seth Darst's lab at Rockefeller. 🔗: bit.ly/4ur3Vaz

Three passengers dead after suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship - The Guardian apple.news/A76A7gzrYQb6OI…

Four spots left! Come and join us in Leiden in about six weeks time for a fourth and fabulous edition of the EMBO workshop Pathogen Immunity & Signalling! Please forward within your network! meetings.embo.org/event/26-patho… #EMBO #pathogens #infections #interferons #immunity

I’m looking to hire a talented postdoctoral research assistant to work with me on my Wellcome Trust-funded project at the @Dunn_School. If you’re interested in bacterial pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions, please apply below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

@MarionKoopmans Truely bad news 😞😞

Postdoctoral Researcher positions-Kapahi lab - Buck Institute - 🚀 looking for two postdocs to lead cutting-edge studies on nutrient signaling, senescence, & aging — combining multiple models ( ucsf &Buck) buckinstitute.applytojob.com/apply/PIrfHTGB…

If you are searching for a post-doc opportunity in skin biology and HSV-1 research, please reach out to be considered for our T32 Interdisciplinary Training Program in Skin Biology. (please note this fellowship is only available for U.S. citizens or green card holders)

We are hiring a PhD candidate! Only for non-EU graduates. To work on the molecular and genomic epidemiology of Treponema pallidum, based on our recent publication (doi:10.1128/mbio.00358-26). Interested? Send your CV and expression of interest to fernando.gonzalez@uv.es by 5/20

Our paper in @Nature today 🥳 We tracked 6,438 mice from puberty to death and mapped the genetics of *when* you die, not just whether a gene associates with lifespan. nature.com/articles/s4158… 59 loci. Two decades of data. Thread 👇 #Longevity #Aging #Genetics #Healthspan