Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

PhD position - Molecular mechanisms of airway mucin secretion

PhD opportunity - Molecular mechanisms of airway mucin secretion

https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ulm-27778-phd-position-molecular-mechanisms-of-airway-mucin-secretion/?feed_id=43722

#ScienceJobs #job
Ulm #Germany #PhDStudent
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ulm-27778-phd-position-molecular-mechanisms-of-airway-mucin-secretion/?feed_id=43722

An Interlude in Microbiology

by Elio
If before 1950 you had asked "are bacteria cells?" the chances are that you would be told "it depends…" In other words, no one knew for sure. It took Joshua Lederberg, who, upon discovering mating in E. coli, proposed that bacteria were indeed cells...

Read more → https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/04/an-interlude-in-microbiology.html

#microbiology #cell

Corvos imaginários, papagaios estocásticos e outros animais que falam, de Manuel Arriaga, pretende apresentar algumas ideias em torno do tema ChatGPT, indo um pouco além das discussões que geralmente se encontram nos media:

https://almanaquemag.com/corvos-imaginarios-papagaios-estocasticos-e-outros-animais-que-falam/

📸 Alessio Ferretti
#almanaque #almanaquemag #manuelarriaga #chatgpt

SSB is launching a new mentorship program to cultivate relationships among members of the systematics and phylogenetics community.

We're now recruiting a pool of mentees and mentors for our first group of participants!

Learn more: https://www.systbio.org/mentoring-program.html

Enroll here: https://forms.gle/mc2gPDwaTGYvcR1k7

Postdoctoral Fellow

The de Cubas Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Hollings Cancer Center has an open

https://jobrxiv.org/job/medical-university-of-south-carolina-27778-postdoctoral-fellow/?feed_id=43710

#ScienceJobs #job #CancerImmunology
Charleston #U...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/medical-university-of-south-carolina-27778-postdoctoral-fellow/?feed_id=43710

New preprint from Geert Kops and co. on the role of CENP-E in building the kinetochore corona expansion. I've always been intrigued by the farnesyl (lipid) modification on CENP-E, identified years ago by Stephen Taylor's lab. This new preprint suggests that this modification and CENP-E have a structural (non-motor) role in stabilising corona expansion.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.26.538394v1.full

#CellBiology #mitosis #motors

"Transplantation of hNSCs has been shown to increase the number of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) in the spinal cords of murine models of MS, which is correlated with a strong localized remyelination response. However, the mechanisms by which hNSC transplantation leads to an increase in Tregs in the CNS remains unclear."

#immunology #Neuroimmunology

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2200798/263631/Presentation-of-Human-Neural-Stem-Cell-Antigens?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Paired peripheral and central blood cultures are worth it!
#IDMastodon #MedMastodon #medicine #microbiology
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad225/7123639

@cyrilpedia Their observations show no change in the percentage of total #tumor associated #macrophages (TAMs) in the tumor tissue but a markedly increased percentage of NOS2+TAMs with no significant changes in arginase I expression...raising the question, which cell type would be the corresponding human counterpart? Macrophage or #monocyte ?

'Under pressure from their government, Chinese scientists have withheld data, withdrawn genetic sequences from public databases and altered crucial details in journal submissions. Western journal editors enabled those efforts by agreeing to those edits or withdrawing papers for murky reasons, a review by The Times of over a dozen retracted papers found.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/world/europe/chinese-censorship-covid.html

"Getting Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science. She was up against not just the routine sexism of the day, but also more subtle forms embedded in science — some of which are still present today."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

🙃

'Dr. Franklin’s early death also meant she missed out on the Nobel Prize, but the Nobel Assembly could have found other ways to acknowledge her contribution, said Nils Hansson, a historian of medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, in Germany. Neither Dr. Watson nor Dr. Crick mentioned her when they accepted their awards, Dr. Hansson noted, although Dr. Wilkins, who also received the prize, did.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/rosalind-franklin-dna.html?