Cassia Wagner

MD student @UWMedicine @UW_MSTP | PhD @UWGenome with @trvrb | global health, rural health, infectious diseases, and the outdoors | from Montana

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

Out now in Nature Comms: https://t.co/CBFjepmnvF

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

Excited to share our preprint finding positive selection for ORF8 knockout from SARS-CoV-2! https://t.co/5MQN7z1F7g

This was a really fun project: Going from “Weird…” to consistent results for a surprising phenomenon with important implications for SARS2 surveillance. (1/13)

[Kay M. Dingwell🍁🩺🏳️‍🌈 @CanadianKayMD]

A reminder to incoming trainees: remember your “super cool case” is the worst news of someone’s life. I encourage you not to post about specific patient cases even deidentified.

If you post pictures at your new job, check reflections and backgrounds for private data first.

[Michael Worobey @MichaelWorobey]

My colleagues and I have just posted a
"Note about availability of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species" @virological_org.

Consensus genomes and metadata.

https://t.co/ggfgW4FPYa

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

5 weeks into my patient care phase of medical school, and I've already spoken with so many patients for whom vaginal estrogen has been a game changer, especially helpful for avoiding UTI's while on SGLT2i for heart failure and diabetes!

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

CALL TO ACTION: I need all of your help.
There is a black box warning on low dose vaginal estrogen (VE) products. See below. It states, "warning: endometrial cancer, cardiovascular disorders, probable dementia." Low dose VE has NEVER been show to cause any of the above.

[Garrett A. Perchetti @GAPerchetti]

Happy to say our work on viral evolution and how certain mutations - AKA “Knockouts” - can lead to less severe disease in COVID was published today in Nature Communications! @NatureComms @UW @UWVirology @fredhutch @wcassias @trvrb @pavitrarc @GreningerLab

https://t.co/En3Ak4eezd

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

@BriChristophers So accurate.

[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

An important piece that we co-authored @Nature today on the need of benefit to countries producing pathogen data. Multiple vaccines were produced with variants discovered in Africa and Africa was at the end of the queue with 100,000s of avoidable COVID deaths. 1/n https://t.co/NkMyieIF4f

[Miguel Paredes @paredesmig]

In Bologna for #Epidemics9 — Come chat about mpox and phylodynamics with (jet lagged) me at the poster session tonight!

Preprint: https://t.co/GPY7OFrKKd

And check out other Bedford lab @trvrb posters by @wcassias & Sravanai and a cool genomics talk by @CecileTK_

[Nathan Lo @NathanLo3579]

Multiple #postdoc positions available @Stanford in infectious disease modeling and public health. Do you have a strong computational background, dedication to ID/public health, and focus on impact? Email me to learn more ([email protected]). #IDepi #phdchat #academicjob

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

Finally, big thanks to all co-authors @KateKistler, @marlinfiggins, @trvrb in Bedford Lab, the UW Virology team @pavitrarc , @GAPerchetti , Noah Baker and Alex Greninger, and WA DOH folks @HannaOltean, @frisbie_lauren, Alex Cox, Marcela Torres, Frank Aragona and Cory Yun! (13/13)

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

Excited to share our preprint finding positive selection for ORF8 knockout from SARS-CoV-2! https://t.co/5MQN7z1F7g

This was a really fun project: Going from “Weird…” to consistent results for a surprising phenomenon with important implications for SARS2 surveillance. (1/13)

[Cassia Wagner @wcassias]

Special thank you to all the sequence submitters, especially WA sequencers - @UWVirology , @WADeptHealth, @seattleflu_sfa, @BrotmanBaty - who have shared data through @GISAID. Also thanks to the UShER team for sharing their giant SARS2 phylogenies with the world! (12/13)