New group leader at #TheCrick, Michael Winding, is hiring a staff scientist:

"Interested in a research career, but don't want to worry about funding or job stability? We are hiring a staff scientist! Help us uncover how social behaviours work and how social isolation disrupts brain wiring and function. Apply by 30 June."

https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/XMLNAME--Senior--Laboratory-Research-Scientist_R1162-2

"Salary for this Role: LRS, from £31,675 to £35,900. SLRS, from £39,950 to £45,275 with benefits, subject to skills and experience, and opportunities for advancement."

#neuroscience #jobs #academia #Drosophila

For all electron microscopists out there:

"Crosshair, semi-automated targeting for electron microscopy with a motorised ultramicrotome"

Kimberly Meechan et al. 2022 @eLife from Yannick Schwab's lab at EMBL in collaboration with The Crick institute. https://elifesciences.org/articles/80899

Presents a new method for reliably and "selectively targeting small regions of interest in a resin block by trimming with an ultramicrotome", powered by "user-friendly software to convert X-ray images of resin-embedded samples into angles and cutting depths for the ultramicrotome."

Reviewed by three outstanding electron microscopists: Christel Genaud, Song Pang, and Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger.

#electronmicroscopy #microCT #Platynereis #science #methods #EMBL #TheCrick

#Introduction
I have a longstanding interest in identifying which genes the #malaria parasite needs to survive, and why. During my PhD I was involved in early genome-scale screens in #Plasmodium. Now, I'm delving into more detail on gene function at scale by building approaches for automated culture at #TheCrick.

Since the pandemic I have also got into #GenomicEpidemiology in a big way. I created https://taxonium.org, a tool for exploring million-sequence trees, amongst other things.