<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear scientists,</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We’re looking for 2-5 postdocs that are humble, hungry, and
smart.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Prior experience with structural biology (x-ray or EM),
computational biology (genomics, transcriptomics or phylogenetics),
biochemistry and/or molecular biology is helpful.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you're most creative under the shadow of mountains and most </font></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif">interested in discovering new bacterial immune systems</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">, then Bozeman Montana might be a good place to continue your training.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Recent papers:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"></p><ol><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07874-3__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOl517If2o$">A virally encoded tRNA neutralizes the PARIS antiviral defence system</a></font></span></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk5518__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOlO_igDDQ$">Repair of CRISPR-guided RNA breaks enables site-specific RNA excision in human cells</a></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/4/msae061/7632644__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOlbEqb_GE$">The Diverse Evolutionary Histories of Domesticated Metaviral Capsid Genes in Mammals</a></span></li><li><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-023-01097-2__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOlAzpyJ7I$">Structure reveals why genome folding is necessary for site-specific integration of foreign DNA into CRISPR arrays</a></li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please send a short note to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:bwiedenehft@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">bwiedenehft@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> explaining what you want from a postdoc, what you bring, and where you want to go. </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Blake</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Blake Wiedenheft, PhD<br>Professor <br>Dept. Microbiology and Cell Biology<br>Montana State University <br>Bozeman MT 59717<br>tel: 406 994 5009<br>fax: 406 994 4303 <br><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.montana.edu/wiedenheftlab/__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOl_3B99qs$" target="_blank">Wiedenheft Lab Website</a><br></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=U-2JuakAAAAJ&btnA=1&authorid=12499803576939773337&view_op=list_works&is_public_preview=1__;!!Mih3wA!Htf7PTI7vRPtjMjZJzbmR4-rNrKHQ3N3qkAsYT2ZYPWmVgIPNO_vN9YDwyfLpt4WfykiU6MuBaHToqOllFIEYsw$" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Google.Scholar.Wiedenheft</font></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>