When: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 4 p.m.

Location: ESJ 2204

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Conference

Gordon Research Conference: Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bridging Scales to Unveil the Power of Environmental Microbiology

The 2025 AEM GRC will explore microbiology across scales to understand breakthroughs in the applied and environmental aspects of the unseen majority of organisms on our planet. 

When: July 13-18, 2025

Location: Mount Holyoke College (USA)

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, July 15

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Student Opportunities

Microbiome Center Consortium - Microbiome Science Careers

The MCC has an opportunity for postdocs and graduate students to develop and coordinate panels exploring careers and topics in microbiome science. If you are interested in building your leadership skills, growing your network, and exploring career pathways in microbiome science, reach out to the MCC Education and Workforce Development Committees Chairs- Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (vklepacc@wellesley.edu), Ellen Dow (egdow@lbl.gov), and Joerg Graf (joergg@hawaii.edu).

Webinar

ASM Webinar on Microbial Genome Data Analysis

This four-part live webinar series aims to help researchers and educators develop essential computational biology skills using KBase, a free, open-access data analysis platform. Part of the NSF-funded MICROnet initiative, this series covers microbial isolate genome analysis, from raw sequence data to data publication. There are two webinars left in the series: on April 29 about taxonomic and functional analysis, and on May 6 for microbiology resource announcement templates for isolates. Learn More

Job Opening

Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Virginia Commonwealth University is seeking applicants for the position of Assistant Professor (non-tenure eligible) whose expertise in bioinformatics will contribute to the teaching and service missions of the Bioinformatics programs. The Bioinformatics curriculum focuses on hands-on experiential learning that brings together computation, statistics, and biology. This 9-month faculty position will be housed in the School for Life Sciences and Sustainability and report to the school Director. This position has both teaching (80%) and service (20%) effort allocations. Learn More

Job Board

Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB)

The are currently more than 150 job openings on SIMB's job board. Learn More

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