Colaiacovo Lab

We are one of the potential host labs for a Lecturer position in Molecular Genetics & Genomics — please share, and get in touch for more info! 🧬📣

Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, and education. Learn more about them: buff.ly/6zAwQQ1

Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏

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New research in #GENETICS used loss-of-function assays to demonstrate the indispensable functions of unsaturated fatty acids in cell cycle progression, chromosome organization, and membrane architecture during #Celegans #germline maintenance. buff.ly/jSkjYlA

🚨 Please share! My lab is hiring a Research Assistant! This is a great opportunity to gain experience with cutting-edge systems neuroscience techniques in a collaborative research environment. If you're interested, check the link for further details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

PhD position in my lab!

A superb summary of why our investment in fundamental science fuels stunning advances in medical treatments 🧪

📢 We are taking applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Harvard/DFCI!

🔹Join a research group in our department
🔹Co-mentoring opportunities with 2+ faculty
🔹Collaborate with investigators beyond our department
🔹Salary starts at $75K

Apply here: t.co/B7SLZzQFKu

The writer Joanna Weiss spent time visiting my lab and our local worm meeting and talking with us.

She highlights curiosity-driven science, the humor and supportiveness of the community, and the need for funding.

"Put simply: If you want to understand how cells work, it’s useful to ask a worm."

Boston Has Worms (The Good Kind) Inside the world of C. elegans worms and the scientists who know them best.

Delighted to share this timely article in Boston magazine on our local C. elegans community and the effects of NIH freezes.

"There might be no group more enthusiastic, self-aware, or life-affirming than the worm people."

www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

Thanks Max Heimab @heiman.bsky.social for organizing this. It was so fun to make a cameo along with Monica Colaiacovo @colaiacovolab.bsky.social, Erin Cram @erincram.bsky.social, Alex Soukas, Alla Grishok, and Thomas Liontis.

The Roger Evans and Aey Phanachet Stipendiary Research Fellowship: Symbiosis and/or Co-Evolution

Are you looking for postdoc opportunities? This @kingscollege.bsky.social research fellowship could be a fantastic opportunity for C. elegans research, if you're interested please do get in touch!
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...

We're looking for a new Reviews Editor for Development. Come and work with our fantastic team of in-house staff and academic editors and help to shape the reviews content of the journal. Feel free to get in touch informally if you want to find out more about the role.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

The Termini Lab at Fred Hutch in Seattle is recruiting a Lab Aide to join our group - more information and instructions to apply can be found at the posting below 👇🧫👇🔬👇🐁
careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29265/l...

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

Do you work in a Global South country would like to host a Workshop? Next deadline for topic proposals: 30 May 2025 The Company of Biologists logo

Our efforts continue to diversify our #BiologistsWorkshops programme to support a wider selection of research communities around the world. If you are a researcher working in the Global South, find out more about hosting a Workshop near you. bit.ly/416wOvP

Want to organise one of our Workshops? You focus on the science, we focus on the logistics. Next deadline for topic proposals: 30 May 2025 The Company of Biologists logo

Do you have an idea for our 2027 #BiologistsWorkshops programme? We cover all costs so you can simply focus on the science. We're now accepting proposals - send us yours by 30 May 2025. bit.ly/4hVT3M0

Staff Scientist, Cell and Tissue Imaging Unit The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a permanent Staff Scientist position in the School of Medicine on the Kuopio campus. The position will be filled from 1 June (or as agree

🔬 Are you looking to work in an imaging core facility? 🔬

Permanent Staff Scientist position at the UEF Cell and Tissue Imaging Unit at the School of Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine in Kuopio, Finland.
uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Do you know any undergraduate students interested in summer research? The USC JumpStart Program offers 10-weeks of intensive research, paired with professional development, housing, a $5000 stipend, and more! Topics range from STEM fields to Humanities. provost.sma.usc.edu/prog/jumpsta...

The 2025 ECHO course on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, May 21 - June 4, is now accepting applications! Substantial financial aid available! Application deadline: January 10, 2025. Please spread the word!

Re-posting this. The deadline is next week, Dec 19! Come join our dept as an assistant prof! Model organism researchers strongly encouraged to apply!! @moleculargenetics.bsky.social

Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans???
Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳
Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy!
#Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My home department at Columbia just opened a search for a tenure track position. Very supportive department with 7 junior faculty members who are all thriving. Apply!

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Application review starts 11/30! Please share, new Bluesky friends!

3️⃣9️⃣ Maria Jasin (1956- ) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Maria Jasin studies the mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination. The use of endonucleases in the 90s was one key discovery for genome editing.

www.mskcc.org/news/big-bre...

Are you a #postdoc with an innovative vision for starting your own lab in #Syntheticbiology, #Genomics, #GeneRegulation, #Development, #Cancer, #Immunology or #InfectionBiology?

@IMPvienna is inviting applications for group leader positions: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Pls share!

If you are a senior PI in the life sciences please consider this opportunity. This is a great place to do science, fantastic colleagues, amazing core facilities in a great city. Let me know if you want to chat about this opening.

Group Leader Position in Plant Chromosome Biology (m/f/d)

The department of Chromosome Biology of the Max planck @mpipz_cologne is looking for a new group leader. Join us, with @Polina_Novik @marques_et_al @LabSchneeberger
We are very open minded concerning the project, it just needs to be exciting.

jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South The Opportunity

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on!
www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Assistant Professor of Teaching University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

My dept, UCLA Chem & Biochem, is looking to hire assist profs of teaching. The position is for those who enjoy teaching & are interested in chem & biochem education research! cc @chemjobber.bsky.social For more info: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09898

Childcare costs ($3000) are now available to those in the F99 phase of F99/K00 transition awards. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...