Sagan Lab

We want you to help us celebrate excellence in virology. CSV is now accepting nominations for our 2026 Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions from trainees through to senior PIs. 🗓 Deadline: March 1st, 2026. 🔗More info can be found here: lnkd.in/eyuzFKJA

REMINDER: The CSV Early Career Researcher Seminar Series is this Friday, Nov 22 @ 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST! Featuring talks from @brycewarner1 and @M_Goncheva. A Zoom link has been sent to CSV members! Come support your fellow Canadian virologists! #Virology #ECR #CSV

Evolutionary ecologist Dr. Kayla King (@kaylacking) of @ZoologyUBC & @UBCMicroImmuno has been recognized as one of Canada’s top young researchers with an Arthur B McDonald fellowship from @NSERC_CRSNG for her research into host-pathogen interactions. science.ubc.ca/news/november-…

Exciting news! Join us for the kick-off of the CSV Early Career Researcher Virtual Seminar Series on Friday, Nov 22 @ 10:30 AM PT / 1:30 PM ET! Featuring talks from @brycewarner1 and @M_Goncheva. Zoom link will be sent to CSV members! Don't miss out! #Virology #ECR #CSV

Are you a trainee interested in getting involved within CSV? We are excited to announce a new CSV Provincial Trainee Ambassadors program. All applications must be submitted by Dec 1st, 2024. Scan the QR code or use the following link to apply: forms.gle/35ePt1Dn6k9uRL…

@hannahlouwall @jordtwight Congrats!

Legally tied to my favourite collaborator forever 🧡 @jordtwight 🧡🧡 Married: 2024-10-10 Wedding: 2024-10-12

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Read more about their story: bit.ly/3XI7KK3

This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans. Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals, making it a useful model for investigating how tissues develop and mature in multicellular organisms. Read how the 2024 medicine laureates’ investigations into C. elegans revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation: bit.ly/4dlPE6f #NobelPrize

Less than 2 weeks left to apply to our position in Mathematical Modeling of Emerging Zoonoses at University of British Columbia!

We’re hiring! Come be our colleague at UBC!

@corcoran_lab Right?! I did not expect this level of intensity!

@SaganLab What WAS this game??? Intense is an understatement.

I thought it would be fun to have an end of summer game, I did NOT anticipate that it might drive my people to the brink of madness...youtu.be/V6rnIrT6oR4

Very proud of Alex Wang, who did an amazing job defending his MSc thesis research today at @UBCMicroImmuno! Stay tuned for a new publication on the evolution of Zika virus Stem-loop A (SLA)! Great job and congrats Alex!

Are you interested in increasing equity, diversity and inclusion within CSV? The CSV EDI committee is looking for a PI to serve as a co-chair from Sept 2024-2026! If you are interested, please apply by Aug 25th. Details are posted below. #lovevirology

This new national training program on One Health and Zoonosis will fill critical gaps in our workforce to tackle emerging zoonotic pathogens and help prevent the next pandemic. Together with the leadership of Dr. Jane Parmley and Drs. Aenishaenslin, Mubareka, Hiller, Leighton, Maguire, and Penney, and a huge team of colleagues from across the country, including USask #OneHealth Signature Area co-lead, Dr. Emily Jenkins, we are launching a national One Health training program on zoonoses. Stay tuned trainees as we launch the program. @CIHR_IRSC @CIHR_III

Lab meeting this week featured Alex and some Mango Basil Sorbet! 😋 It was a nice way to cool down during a hot week in Vancouver!

Please join us for a special VRC career panel August 7 2024: 4-7 pm including a talk from Trilink, fantastic industry panelists, networking, food/drinks and a raffle! Please register!

So proud of my team for our first preprint! We asked how does loss of dystrophin impact satellite cells in DMD? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This week’s Lab meeting featured @BreannaLandry25 and Manolya, as well as some Matcha and White Chocolate Ice cream!

New research from the Sun Lab, co-led by PhD student Yichu Liang, has developed a new compound, SMIP-031, showing promise in treating tuberculosis (TB) by enhancing the immune response. Read more🔗: mbim.ubc.ca/news/sun-lab-c… @ubcscience @SunLabTB #ubcmbim #tb #tbresearch