A new resource is available for Canada’s pork sector from Swine Innovation Porc. The Pork Research Hub brings swine research, technical resources, webinars, videos, podcasts and more into one searchable bilingual platform. Explore the Hub: porkresearchhub.ca #PorkResearchHub #SwineResearch

🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!

VIDO is hiring for two new roles in Dr. Troy Sutton’s new lab. We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Technician to support influenza research focused on transmission, pandemic risk assessment and vaccine development for humans and animals. Apply: www.vido.org/careers/curr...

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

Someone in the news departments of @nature.com or @science.org needs to take a look at this--its a huge scandal from the scientific supplier that has become a monopoly

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I am delighted to share the latest study on our bTB vaccine. Grateful to Beef Cattle Research Council for the support 🙏

Recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis producing a functional M. tuberculosis ESX-1 system is protective in the murine model of bovine TB without sensitization to tuberculin

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic, productivity-limiting infection in livestock with significant zoonotic potential that is caused by members of …

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Introducing the newly minted Dr. Slim Zriba! What a week it has been for Slim (second from left) - successfully defends his PhD and gets his second first-author (and co-corresponding author I might… |...

Introducing the newly minted Dr. Slim Zriba! What a week it has been for Slim (second from left) - successfully defends his PhD and gets his second first-author (and co-corresponding author I might ad...

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One of the deadliest diseases in history is still here. TB kills 1.3M people every year. On #WorldTBDay, VIDO researchers are advancing vaccines, drug targets, and new models to help stop TB. Read more: www.vido.org/news/2026/ad... @usask.ca @jeffchenmycolab.bsky.social #WorldTBDay #TB

We’re hiring at VIDO! 🔬 Principal Research Scientist – ESKAPE Pathogens 🐄 Principal Research Scientist – Bovine Respiratory Disease 🛡️ Associate Biosafety Officer Help us advance infectious disease research. Apply today: vido.org/careers/curr... @usask.ca

📢 We’re hiring a Director of Facilities at VIDO. This senior leadership role oversees world-class biocontainment labs, infrastructure, and capital projects, supporting critical pandemic and infectious disease research. Apply here: vido.applytojobs.ca/leadership/4...

We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis overcomes phosphate starvation by extensively remodelling its lipidome with phosphorus-free lipids - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis manipulates lipid metabolism to overcome host restriction, by remodelling its lipidome and utilising host lipids as an alternative phosphate sour...

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Excited to see the PhD work led by Sarah Danchuk published today. Virulence hierarchies within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Thanks to all the authors and collaborators, and especially kudos to Sarah: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Given the absolutely insane levels of disinformation and growing attacks on science and scientists, all scientists must be taught - how to communicate effectively - how to engage the public - how to engage politicians and policy makers - how to engage with the media - how to counter misinformation

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/...

Assembly of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis type VII ESX-1 secretion system in Mycobacterium smegmatis identifies a new transcriptional activator of esx-1 genes and a novel TB vaccine | Microbiology Sp...

In this study, we modified Mycobacterium smegmatis, which is often used as a surrogate model organism in mycobacterial research, to produce and assemble a functional Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb)...

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John Green@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

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

Seventy-year-old Parkinson’s drug shows promise against tuberculosis

A medication developed in the 1950s to treat Parkinson’s disease may offer a powerful new tool in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), according to new research from the University of British Co...

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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”

TBFighters@tbfighters.org · last yr.

We know how to #EndTB. It's not a testing or treatment problem, we just need "a little f**king money." Around 250 people joined us at #TBHillDay to advocate for just that! This is only the beginning. We'll see you again next year, DC 🫡 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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/...

How researchers are trying to tackle Sask.'s high tuberculosis rates

Saskatchewan's rate of tuberculosis infections was more than twice the national average in 2023. Scientists in the province hope to find a new drug treatment and a new vaccine. Jeffrey Chen, a princip...

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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.

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

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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!!

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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