Publications

Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, Michael A. Drebot, Kristina Dimitrova, Melanie DiQuinzio, Kevin Fonseca, David Forrest, Todd Hatchette, Muhammad Morshed, Glen Patriquin, Guillaume Poliquin, Lynora Saxinger, Bouchra Serhir, Raymond Tellier, Christian Therrien, Linda Vrbova, Heidi Wood. “A Canadian Case series of Jamestown Canyon Virus Infections with Neurological Outcomes”. Emerg Inf Dis, (2024); 30(5):874-881. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3005.221258.

McClelland RD, Lin Y-CJ, Culp TN, Noyce R, Evans D, Hobman TC, Meier-Stephenson V and Marchant DJ (2023) The domestication of SARS-CoV-2 into a seasonal infection by viral variants. Front. Microbiol. 14:1289387. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1289387

Fernández‐García OA, Zelyas N, Meier-Stephenson V, Halloran K, Doucette K. “Hepatitis B virus reactivation in hepatitis B core antibody positive lung transplant recipients”. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (2023); 3:100018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlto.2023.100018

Research Features (Science outreach magazine) features our research - "G4-quadruplexes: How tangled knots of DNA help regulate and protect our genes" https://researchfeatures.com/g4-quadruplexes-tangled-knots-dna-help-regulate-protect-genes/

Justine Beghin, Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, "Does hepatitis delta virus have a preference for hepatitis B virus genotype? A systematic review of the literature", Journal of Viral Hepatitis. (2023). https://doi/full/10.1111/jvh.13889

Meier-Stephenson, V.; Evans, D.; Hobman, T.; Marchant, D.; Noyce, R.; Shmulevitz, M. “Special Issue of the 4th Symposium of the Canadian Society for Virology 2022”. Viruses 2023, 15, 1512. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15071512.

Meier-Stephenson V, “G4-Quadruplex binding proteins: Review and insights into selectivity”, Biophysical Reviews ” (2022). doi: 10.1007/s12551-022-00952-8 

Meier-Stephenson V*, Badmalia M*, Mrozowich T, Lau KCK, Gemmill, D, Shultz S, Osiowy C, van Marle G, Coffin CS, Patel TR, “Identification and Characterization of a G4-Quadruplex structure motif in the pre-core promoter region of Hepatitis B Virus”, Journal Biological Chemistry. (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100589. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33774051

Patel NH, Meier-Stephenson V, Genetu M, Damtie D, Abate E, Alemu S, Aleka Y, van Marle G, Fonseca K, Coffin CS, Deressa T. “Prevalence of occult hepatitis B in a human immunodeficiency virus positive patient cohort in Gondar, Ethiopia” PlosOne. (2020) Epub ahead of print 19Nov2020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242577 PMID: 33211768

Turton KL, Meier-Stephenson V, Badmalia MD, Coffin CS, Patel TR, "Host Transcription Factors in Hepatitis B Virus RNA Synthesis" Viruses. 2020 Jan 30;12(2):160. doi: 10.3390/v12020160. PMID: 32019103

Meier-Stephenson V*, Deressa T*, Damtie D, Braun S, Abate E, Alemu S, Aleka Y, van Marle G, Swain MG, Fonseca K, Coffin CS. “Prevalence of Chronic and Occult Hepatitis B Virus in Pregnant Women in Gondar, Ethiopia”. Can Liver J. (2020) Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.3138/canlivj-2019-0031. PMID: 33211768

Gemmill D, D’Souza S, Meier-Stephenson V, Patel TR. “Current approaches of RNA modification to identify RNA-binding proteins”. Biochem Cell Biol. 98(1):31-41 (2019). doi: 10.1139/bcb-2019-0041. Epub 2019 Mar 30. PMID: 30931575

Mrozowich T, Meier-Stephenson V, Patel TR. “Microscale Thermophoresis: Warming up to a New Biomolecular Interaction Technique”, The Biochemist. (2019).

Jayanthan A, Hofmann B, Meier-Stephenson V, Perinpanayagam M, Dunn SE, Boklan J, Trippett TM, Truong TH, Narendran A. “Targeted Polo-Like Kinase Inhibition Combined with Aurora Kinase Inhibition in Pediatric Acute Leukemia Cells”. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. Jan 29th, 2019-Epub ahead of print (2019). doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000001416. PMID: 30702467

Meier-Stephenson V, Bremner WTR, Dalton CS, van Marle G, Coffin CS, Patel TR. "Comprehensive Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus X and Core Promoter Region Mutations" Viruses. 10(11):603 (2018). doi: 10.3390/v10110603. PMID: 30388827

Meier-Stephenson V, Mrozowich T, Pham M, Patel TR, “DEAD-box Helicases: The Yin and Yang Roles in Viral Infections” Biotech Gen Eng Rev. Virology Conference Special Issue, 34(1): 3-32 (2018).  doi: 10.1080/02648725.2018.1467146. Epub 2018 May 9. PMID: 29742983

Meier-Stephenson V., Reimer J., Narendran A., “The HIV Protease Inhibitor, Nelfinavir, as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Refractory Pediatric Leukemia”, Oncotargets and Therapy. 10:2581-2593, (2017). doi: 10.2147/OTT.S136484. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28553123

Sungmyung Kang, Jesusa Rosales, Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, Sung-Woo Kim, Aru Narandran, “Genome wide loss-of-function genetic screening identifies opioid receptor mu 1 as a key regulator of L-asparaginase resistance in pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia”, Oncogene 36(42):5910-5913 (2017). doi: 10.1038/onc.2017.211. Epub 2017 Jun 26. PMID: 28650467

Stokes, W., Fuller, J., Meier-Stephenson, V., Remington, L., Meatherall, B., “Case Report of Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis caused by Fonsecaea monophora” JAMMI. 2(1):86-92 (2017).

Singh, A., Meier-Stephenson, V., Jayanthan, A., Narendran, A. “In Vitro Sensitivity profiling of Neuroblastoma Cells Against a Comprehensive Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitor Library to Identify Agents for Future Therapeutic Studies” Curr. Cancer Drug Targ. 17: 1-15, (2016). doi: 10.2174/1568009617666161122145219. PMID: 27875952

Ishikawa T., Meier-Stephenson V., Heitman SJ. “Biliary obstruction caused by the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica” CMAJ. 188(7): 524-526, (2016).  doi: 10.1503/cmaj.150696. Epub 2016 Jan 4. PMID: 26728843