Childhood vaccines are let to preventing hospitalization and deaths. Measles is extremely infectious and we need >95% vaccination rates for herd immunity! Post-COVID vaccine hesitancy is leading to these preventable tragedies cbc.ca/news/health/me…

We attended the Canadian Society for Virology meeting U of Saskatchewan this week #CSV2024 So proud of my students, winning poster awards & giving outstanding rapid fire talks! 😎 What a privilege to be part of the Canadian Society for Virology community! Thanks to our colleagues supporting our work! 🙏🏼

CoVaRR-Net is extremely concerned and strongly disagrees with Ontario defunding and shutting down its wastewater surveillance program. 1/5 ow.ly/nAVs50Sfq9G

Horrifying. The Wakefield lie has done huge damage. 1 in 4 US adults mistakenly believe MMR vaccine causes autism, survey reveals cidrap.umn.edu/measles/1-4-us… "Despite no evidence that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism, a quarter of US adults still think

Five key points about highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) infection, with a focus on the Canadian context. 🇨🇦 Link: tinyurl.com/59vxpty7 (In CMAJ, with Drs. Kozak and Mubareka)

If you are looking for an experimental wet-lab tenure-track faculty position, join us at the amazing Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, @UofLArtsci ULethbridge Here are more details - uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/7470 Please help spread this posting widely.

This week we celebrated with our 4th annual ‘State of the Lab’ address. Our past year was commemorated with: ☕️📄manuscript mugs for our 3 recent papers; 👩🏻‍🔬🍺 a beaker mug for our outgoing high-school co-op student; and a big virus cookie! 🍪

📣 The RiT program offers early career researchers the opportunity to learn about the peer review process at CIHR while gaining valuable experience participating in high-quality reviews. Accepting applications July 9-August 6! cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52323.html?h…

Please RT! The Pardy Lab is hiring! Looking for graduate students who are interested in learning about the role of IFN-γ in intestinal immunity. Great opportunity to be a part of a new lab from the beginning! Projects, contact, and more info below! inrs.ca/en/research/pr…

Once again, don’t drink raw milk. Ingestion is a known infection route for influenza virus, but pasteurization inactivates H5N1.

🥳Super excited to share our new #Immunology tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor job posting to join us Dept of Immunology @ UofM in 2025! Happy to answer any Qs about our dept/University of Manitoba & the amazing collaborative research community here in Winnipeg🇨🇦 Plz RT! Canadian Society for Immunology The American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

Seventh patient ‘cured’ of HIV: A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving CCR5-heterozygous stem cells that are not resistant to the virus nature Smriti Mallapaty nature.com/articles/d4158…

Join the RNA Virus Replication Lab The Francis Crick Institute, Europe's largest biomedical institute under 1 roof! 🔴 TWO postdocs (4-6yrs) 🔴 ONE PhD student (4yrs, fully funded, all🌍) We’re looking for bright, motivated people, with the chance to develop & shape projects independently... 1/n

We are hiring! The Corcoran lab seeks individuals with molecular virology or RNA biology experience to work on the kaposin RNA and its role as a non-coding architectural RNA that optimizes KSHV infection. Please share!

Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women. 8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status. It's long past time to use consistent standards.

We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof level in beautiful Vancouver 😊 Apply by Oct 24th! Please repost and spread the word 🙏

There is still plenty of time to apply for three tenure track positions MCB at UofG University of Guelph: tinyurl.com/UoG-Immuno tinyurl.com/UoG-Biochem tinyurl.com/UoG-Teaching