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• Elizabeth McMahon

  Job market advice for making your first or next big move. Hear from those who have navigated the landscape. Plus, the database of known proteins on the planet expands by a few billion. This is the Path News Network Daily Edition from the College of American Pathologists. I'm Elizabeth McMahon. It's Thursday, June 4th. June is a time of transitions. and new beginnings for physicians. Residencies finish, fellowships start soon after, and many others face that scary two-word question, what's next? If you're a pathology resident or fellow looking to make the jump into the job market, a June 9th CAP webinar will help. The session will provide an overview of the current pathology job landscape, including academic and private practice opportunities, subspecialty considerations, and geographic trends. Dr. Neha Varshney is vice chair of the CAP's New in Practice Committee and a webinar panelist. She says residents often face the job market without a lot of guidance.

• Dr. Neha Varshney

  There are people who are there who will guide you sometimes, but it's becoming so busy and busy, like pathology overall, that it's just hard to just get your head out of microscope sometimes. It's just really difficult. The most guidance you will get is by networking, going to conferences. These CAP webinars and panels are really great for that as well.

• Elizabeth McMahon

  Dr. Varshney, who's in her sixth year of practice, is assistant professor and director of the Immunohistochemistry Lab at Northwestern University. She and fellow panelists will share their personal experiences and talk through options in the expanding pathology job market.

• Dr. Neha Varshney

  There are so many different types of jobs right now. So like with the digital and AI, it has just exploded and pharma, clinical trials, all of that has exploded. So there are academic jobs, there are private practices, and there are pharma jobs, there are big labs now, standalone pod labs, digital and AI world.

• Elizabeth McMahon

  Register now for the Job Market Outlook webinar using the link in the calendar of events on the CAP homepage. The protein universe just got bigger by a few billion. Researchers from Biohub, a biomedical institute created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, announced that their AI model, called ESM Fold2, has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more sequences. The open-source model is based on a protein language that was trained on known proteins, including sequences from soil, ocean, and other environments. Biohub's scientists have already used the AI model to design new antibodies and other proteins that can strongly attach to proteins implicated in cancers and immunological conditions. Researchers hope the database, known as the ESM Atlas, will speed progress toward personalized cures. It's almost here Pathology in the Park 2026 is just a month away, and there are still some spaces left for you and the special people in your life who may need a little R&R. From July 15th to 17th, join your fellow CAP members at Disney's Boardwalk Inn in Florida for a blend of CME sessions in the morning and fun and relaxation the rest of the day. From lymphomas to GI cancers, the morning sessions enrich your knowledge in a range of topics. Dr. Aatur Singhi of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is leading sessions focused on pancreatic diagnoses. He says the small group format gives participants time and space to participate, ask questions, and follow up the next day if they want to learn more.

• Dr. Aatur Singhi

  It always helps having these types of sessions is that it's not just one day and just literally one hour and that's it, you're done. It's multiple days. And I can't tell you how often. Well, I go through a CME and then, you know, I'm thinking, you know what? I had a case last month that was very similar, but I forgot to ask that question. But now I have the next day to be able to do it. And it's not like I have to hurry up and think about it. I have that ability. Oh, I'm going to go enjoy some time off. I'm going to think about it maybe at maybe a dinner. And then, oh, I'm going to ask the next day when it's fresh in my mind.

• Elizabeth McMahon

  Don't miss these final days to register for learning and leisure at Disney. Your registration includes a reception for you and three guests at Italy Isola in Epcot the opening evening. Find all the details using the link on the CAP homepage. And finally, whether you're poolside at Pathology in the Park or headed on vacation this summer, you might need a little light reading for the trip. The team at the journal Nature has published their summer reading recommendations with a focus on nine lab life novels. Among them, Solar by Ian McEwan, a comic novel featuring a government scientist who worries his Nobel Prize winning theory was a fluke. Centered on the business of science and climate change, The story really picks up when he steals a colleague's research on artificial photosynthesis. On the lighter side, the best-selling Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus also gets a plug. Set in the 1960s, the novel explores the challenges of being a mother in science at a time when most were at home. Find the link to the full list in our show notes. That's all for today's Daily Edition. Be sure to check the show notes for more information on today's stories. Got a story you'd like us to cover on The Daily Edition? Write to us at stories at cap.org. We're back at 5 a.m. Eastern for another episode of The Daily Edition. I'm Elizabeth McMahon. Have a great day.