What a week! 🎉From our Scientific Summit to the 50th Gala to celebrating our amazing team, thank you to everyone who joined us to mark 50 years of VIDO. The future of innovation, collaboration & impact starts now. #VIDOis50 @usask.ca

🚨 We're hiring for an animal technician! Apply now to join our team: vido.applytojobs.ca/veterinary%2... #WorkAtVIDO #WorkWithUs #Hiring #JoinOurTeam #ResearchCareers

Delighted to share our latest report in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Seventy-year-old Parkinson’s drug shows promise against tuberculosis | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

My fantastic group threw me a surprise birthday lunch today 🎉 🥳 🪅 Couldn't ask for a better group of people to be my partners in crime in the lab 😁

Corporate administrators who have only experienced jobs whose main benefit was pay cannot fathom that the very best find intrinsic value in excellence and are best left to do it without undue interference or burden

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

“Tuberculosis has long suffered a PR problem… We are looking at a world whereby, two years from now, 2 million people will die of #tuberculosis, instead of 1.25 million… This is getting worse, not better, and I really hate it when we have the ability to make something better and we let it get worse”

To commemorate World TB day, got to discuss the state of TB in SK and our TB research at VIDO with Adam Hunter on CBC Radio www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The gutting of USAID has crippled tuberculosis programs, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients without tests or drugs and at risk of spreading the disease.

Amazing thesis work led by Sarah Danchuk now submitted for review and posted as preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=51598…. Short summary: M. bovis & M. orygis manifest enhanced virulence compared to M. tuberculosis in natural host model (calves) and small animal model (mice).

I’ll be in Pittsburgh at the Stand Up For Science March at Schenley Park. 11AM Friday March 7! Come on people! Support the good people who do research to improve and save lives!!

For all of you who cannot access pubmed, here is a good alternative: europepmc.org

Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than #PubMed because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research. europepmc.org

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

VIDO held its annual research day - Slim Zriba (doctoral student) won 3rd prize for his project poster...super proud PI Be on the lookout for some cool papers from this talented scientist👏👏👏

Delighted to finally get our bTB in bison story out. Great partnership between Parks Canada and VIDO with exceptional assistance from VIDO vet services team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Roche's new Institute for Human Biology in Basel: "We are seeking to fill two positions, one for a Co-Director of Exploratory Biology and one for a Co-Director of Computational Biology." #ScienceJobs institutehumanbiology.com/about-the-ih...

*Two* open tenure-track biochemistry positions at @uofwaterloo.bsky.social ! ofas.uwaterloo.ca/job-details/...

Believe it or not, GRC has told me we need more registered applicants or this meeting might not survive! Please don't let that happen if you can afford to attend 🙏

Nice to find some familiar faces here 😄

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