Jeff Downey
jeffdowney11.bsky.social
Jeff Downey
@jeffdowney11.bsky.social
Post-Doc at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, studying immune interactions between infection and cardiovascular disease in the lab of @filswirski.bsky.social
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We are proud to announce that five CVRI faculty members - Fil Swirski (@filswirski.bsky.social), Mandy van Leent, Cameron McAlpine (@mcalpinelab.bsky.social), Maria Noval, and Sikander Hayat - will be presenting their groundbreaking work at Atherosclerosis GRC this Friday, June 27th.
2025 Atherosclerosis Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Atherosclerosis will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Are you an established PI that studies the human immune system and looking for a change of location? If the answer is yes, #McGill has an amazing opportunity to provide long-term funding at a world class institution. Apply now!!!! Please repost!!! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
Canadian Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Human Immunology
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June 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

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PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers
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June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Do you study host-pathogen interactions and want to start your own research program in a beautiful Canadian city with European flare? Look no further and join us at #McgillUniversity

Apply here!!👇🏼

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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724)
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April 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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absolutely devastating — i feel incredibly grateful to have had you as a coach and you will be missed dearly, Sasha 🤍
In a letter from University of Delaware President, Dennis Assanis, a former UD Figure Skating Club coach, Alexandr ‘Sasha’ Kirsanov was among those who died in the plane crash over Washington D.C. Wednesday night.
Former University of Delaware figure skating club coach among dead in plane crash over Washington D.C.
NEWARK, Del. - In a letter from University of Delaware President, Dennis Assanis, a former UD Figure Skating Club coach, Alexandr ‘Sasha’ Kirsanov was among those who died in the
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January 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful.

It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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very excited to share the last chunk of my PhD work, now available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! in this work, we explore how cis-regulatory variation and gene-environment (GxE) interactions influence immune response diversity directly in a cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients 1/n
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 PM