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📣 Job Alert: Exciting Career Opportunities at MIMS! 🌟 Join us at the Swedish node of @NordicEMBL , @mims_umea, @umeauniversity! We're hiring: Group Leader in Infection Medicine, several Postdoctoral Researchers, and Project Administrator (event focus). umu.se/en/mims/career-and-ed…

VACANCIES - Are you interested in molecular biology, computational approaches and bioengineering? Check out these PhD and Postdoc opportunities in the Wenkel lab @microProteins and become part of the interdisciplinary RESYDE project! @UmeaPlantSci @umeauniversity #PlantSciJobs

Moving to the other place 🦋 Hope to see you there as well

Are you looking for a postdoc and would like to be part of an ambitious research project on plant development? Get in touch with Stephan Wenkel @microProteins and his colleagues from @HumboldtUni, @Sydney_Uni and @slcuplants and join the #ERCSyG project RESYDE!

Congratulations to Stéphanie Robert on her #ERCSyG grant! Stéphanie is an IceLab affiliate and professor of plant physiology at SLU and Umeå Plant Science Centre. She will lead the project STARMORPH, creating a spatio-temporal map for auxin dynamics.

Science of science preprint alert 📰🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2411.03938 Where postdoctoral journeys lead. Our data-driven study of how the postdoc period relates to academic careers. 1/3

We’re excited to share our latest paper in @PLOSGenetics : "LD-transpeptidation is crucial for fitness and polar growth in A. tumefaciens"🧬🔗Read it here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.… Special thanks to our collaborators: @TypasLab, @mateus_lab, @BrownlabMizzou and @savitski_lab!

Time for the annual KBC Days, on the theme 'sensing' this year. We are enjoying the talks, meeting new researchers, and looking forward to pitches from PhDs and Postdocs today and tomorrow. IceLab multidisciplinary postdoc Jyoti Verma is one of them! umu.se/en/chemical-biologica…

New preprint from IceLab PI @kavican - check it out!

As a science communicator, your job is to explain complex science in a language that the audience can understand, says @DiannaKBautist1 For instance by using relatable scenarios or visualising the science via analogues. #ScienceCommunication

An excellent paper we read and reference during IceLab Camp!

How to win a Nobel Prize

Study unveals a novel protective mechanism in bacterial cell wall @CavaLab_MIMS @FelipecavaM @UmeaUniversity @scilifelab @mims_umea #bacteria #peptidoglycan #Vibriocholerae umu.se/en/news/study-unveals…

Curious about modeling and how it can help further biodiversity research? Join Professor Kim Sneppen, in IceLab Oct 17 for a seminar. Kim specializes in complex systems and biophysics, covering everything from microbiology to population dynamics. umu.se/en/events/icelab-semi…

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in physics used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can independently discover properties in data and which has become important for the large artificial neural networks now in use. Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year’s physics laureates have helped make this possible. Using fundamental concepts and methods from physics, they have developed technologies that use structures in networks to process information.

Improv is fun. Improv helps you loosen up and think on your feet. Improv helps you practice 'Yes and...' Yes and is a great starting point for engaging in collaboration in research. Improv is good for your research. Give it a try!