proflemieux.bsky.social
@proflemieux.bsky.social
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Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.
VIDO is hiring a Research Technician to join Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social's lab studying emerging viruses (avian flu, Ebola, mpox, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2). Help advance pandemic preparedness!

📍 Saskatoon, SK
🔗 vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682

#Virology #WorkAtVIDO
May 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Yikes!! Early registration deadline is Mar 31 for this fabulous conference! Join us!
cumming.ucalgary.ca/events/banff...
March 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Alberta's chief medical officer should be given green light to speak publicly on measles, experts say www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @jenleecbc.bsky.social

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
April 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Down to earth (as always) interview with @danieljdrucker.bsky.social on the impact of GLP1 agonists in fields of biology that he’d never anticipated but is leading the way on understanding - as awardee of th3 Breakthrough Prize with colleagues. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Canadian scientist wins Breakthrough Prize for discovery of hormone used in Ozempic, Mounjaro
A Canadian researcher has won a 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the GLP-1 hormone used in diabetes and obesity medications — including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro — that have...
www.ctvnews.ca
April 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with University of Montreal (UdeM) | 12838461
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Google searches relating to moving to Canada have been up. To that end, we’ve prepared something of a bicyclist cheat sheet for those who consider a cycling friendly city at or near the top of the list of any potential relocation targets.
momentummag.com/ready-to-rel...
Ready to Relocate? Canada’s Top Cycling Cities that Should be on Your Radar
A lot of wonderful people might be looking to relocate as a distinct possibility after recent political events that shall remain nameless.
momentummag.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Proud of my recent graduate Dr. Raelynn Brassard's work on understanding mutations associated with inherited forms of Parkinsonism, just out in J Biol Chem! #PINK1 #biochemistry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transmembrane Parkinson’s disease mutation of PINK1 leads to altered mitochondrial anchoring
Parkinson’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disease resulting from the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Ontario is currently experiencing a measles outbreak, with the vast majority of cases occurring in unvaccinated individuals who were eligible to receive both doses of the vaccine.

The measles vaccine is safe, free, widely available, and very effective.
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Alberta added to list of provinces with measles outbreak today.
Provinces with Measles outbreaks in Canada - Alberta was added today #Canada

Alberta outbreak details here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
March 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM