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Posts by Steve Kembel

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30%+.

Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.

We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
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A phylogenomic and metagenomic meta-analysis of bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere lifts a veil on hyphomicrobiales dark matter The phyllosphere, or above-ground part of plants, hosts diverse bacterial communities that play critical ecological roles and provide beneficial funct…

Our article on the dark matter in the #phyllosphere in Systematic and applied Microbiology!

#methylobacterium #lichenibacterium #lichenifustis #lichenihabitans and even more to discover in #Hyphomicrobiales (former Rhizobiales) inhabiting leave surfaces!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Immigration | Des professeurs recrutés laissés de côté par le nouveau système Alejandro Morales a été recruté par l’UQAM à l’issue d’un processus de sélection où plus de 200 candidats étaient en lice. Pourtant, ce professeur de mathématiques de 41 ans, originaire de la Colombie, est à peu près certain de ne jamais recevoir d’invitation à déposer une demande de résidence permanente dans le cadre du Programme de sélection des travailleurs qualifiés (PSTQ).
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Je ne suis pas raciste mais… je fais campagne pour démanteler un moyen de transport écologique, économique, efficace et surtout qui diminue la congestion routière.

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Check out our preprint on #Methylobacterium ’s relative, #Lichenibacterium (aka 1174-901-12), my new favorite bacteria from the #phyllosphere ! Thanks to @skembel.bsky.social and our students David Ross and Louis-Philippe St-Amand for this work!
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position: Microbial biomarkers to improve the efficacy of GDNF treatment for Hirschsprung disease – Kembel @ UQAM

Come join us at UQAM! We're hiring a postdoc to work on using metagenomics to identify microbial biomarkers to improve the efficacy of GDNF treatment for Hirschsprung disease.
More info here :
kembellab.ca/postdoctoral...
#microbiome #raredisease #metagenomics #postdoc #genomics

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