Vanessa Meier-Stephenson

Recruiting a senior protein/RNA biochemist to our team! (Please circulate to those who may be interested- thanks!) apps.ualberta.ca/careers/postin…

"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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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!

Just in time for mosquito season! 🦟 Our Jamestown Canyon virus neurologic case series in Canada. doi.org/10.3201/eid300… Consider locally endemic arboviruses (JCV, SSH...) on your differential of encephalitis cases during mosquito season. Talk with your lab to request it!

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!

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

Congrats to Dhruvi from the @MeierStephenson lab on their poster award!!

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!

Congratulations to all Poster Award winners of the 8th Biophysical Society of Canada Conference @BiophysCanada #BSC2023

‘I Believe in You’ - University of Toronto Magazine ⁦@GuzzoLabUTSC⁩. One fantastic human. ⁦@CanSocVirol⁩ ⁦@UofTEPIC⁩ magazine.utoronto.ca/people/faculty…

@UofA_ID @UAlberta_DoM Thanks, everyone!

Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Meier-Stephenson! @MeierStephenson @UofA_ID @UAlberta_DoM

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

@AMMICanada @shaq_MD Not to claim this was organized alone! The amazing people behind the scenes turning our nerdy ideas into action are AMMI staff and organizational gurus--Krystal Sabourin and Riccarda Galioto! Can't wait to see it all in action! Hopefully you'll learn lots from it as well ;)

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!

***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-ar…

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

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.” 1/