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Recruiting a senior protein/RNA biochemist to our team!
(Please circulate to those who may be interested- thanks!)
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"There isn’t an ID doc in this country who hasn’t been at the bedside of a patient who’s desperately ill & for whom we did not have an antibiotic.” @IDSAInfo President Dr. Cynthia Sears. #IDquotes #IDTwitter
Retweet if you ever had a patient with no #antibiotic to treat.
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This.
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Today for #CanHepDay24 we are asking the federal government for:
✅Targets to measure progress toward hepatitis elimination📋
✅Evidence-based hep B & C screening guidelines
✅Point-of-care testing approval
✅Universal birth-dose hep B vaccination💉
✅Updated hep B & C estimates
And thanks to @neurology_live for the additional plug and awareness!
A recent case series showed concerning trends of neurological conditions from mosquito-borne diseases impacting patients living in Canada and the United States. Research by @MeierStephenson et al📒
More: neurologylive.com/view/cases…
Just in time for mosquito season! 🦟
Our Jamestown Canyon virus neurologic case series in Canada. doi.org/10.3201/eid3005.2212…
Consider locally endemic arboviruses (JCV, SSH...) on your differential of encephalitis cases during mosquito season. Talk with your lab to request it!
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Don't wait until you get liver cancer from hepatitis.
#HepCantWait. Get tested, save lives.🫂
We're #NotWaiting for change! Together we can win this fight and make a real difference 🩵
July 28 let's raise our voices on #WorldHepatitisDay about #hepatitis elimination!
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BOOK YOUR #CASL #STC2023 STAY AT A SPECIAL RATE!
Discounted hotel rates are available for a limited time - book by Aug28 to ensure availability.
Conditions apply. Visit our website for more info: bit.ly/3ovffXf
#livertwitter #hepatology #liverdisease
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Congrats to Dhruvi from the @MeierStephenson lab on their poster award!!
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Group photo of everyone attending the @BiophysCanada annual meeting #BSC2023 in Calgary! So many exciting talks, posters and interactions! A lot to come for the rest of today and tomorrow!
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Congratulations to all Poster Award winners of the 8th Biophysical Society of Canada Conference @BiophysCanada #BSC2023
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‘I Believe in You’ - University of Toronto Magazine @GuzzoLabUTSC. One fantastic human. @CanSocVirol @UofTEPIC magazine.utoronto.ca/people/…
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I am honoured to be named the Scientific Director of the #CBRF PRAIRIE Hub: Protecting Canada by Building on Excellence in Pandemic Preparedness with @UAlberta @UCalgary @USask UManitoba and partners @CUEdmonton @uLethbridge URegina @VIDOInterVac @EmergentCDMO @gskca 1/2
The U of A is leading a new research hub involving partners in the Prairie provinces, with the goal of developing homegrown vaccines and treatments for future pandemic diseases. #UAlberta @SSHRC_CRSH @UAlberta_FoMD @LKSIoV ualberta.ca/folio/2023/03/u-…
New this year to the AMMI conference - @AMMICanada - an Escape Room! - organized by a few your colleagues and Escape Room buffs!
(@shaq_MD , @PhilippeLagacé-Wiens, @MeierStephenson)
You'll need to team up with different backgrounds to beat this challenge in time! Enjoy!
The Early Bird registration has been extended to February 28, 2023, register today !
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***Deadline extended to March 5***
We're hiring!! We've got 3 summer positions that we're currently accepting applications for (Summer Coordinator, Program Assistant, Residence Advisor). For more info, visit: linktr.ee/WISEST
Really great paper showing the presence of G4Qs in a linear strand!
Structure of a 28.5 kDa duplex-embedded G-quadruplex system resolved to 7.4 Å resolution with cryo-EM academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
Have a look at our Research Features article @ResearchFeature (science outreach magazine) on these need little DNA structures!
"G4-quadruplexes: How tangled knots of DNA help regulate and protect our genes"
10.26904/RF-145-3852862352
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Public health care.
Biggest modern mistakes
- Assuming you won’t need it - so not wanting to fund it
- Assuming a business will do it better (they just take HCW away and take easy cases and make money for someone.
“It will relieve your money worries in times of illness.”
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Very excited to publicly announce our team - the International Mpox Research Consortium (IMReC) - was funded through @CIHR_IRSC @IDRC_CRDI to investigate mpox in Canada and Africa 🧵
Congratulations to the #mpox researchers: Darrell Tan of St. Michael’s Hospital @UnityHealthTO, Rosemary Audu of @nimrnigeria, Jason Kindrachuk of @umanitoba, and Placide Mbala of @inrb_kinshasa. 👏