(left to right) Back row: Amos Raphenya, Arman Edalatmand, Brian Alcock, Andrew McArthur, David Speicher, Martins Oloni, Sohaib Syed. Front row: William Huynh, Anna-Lisa Nguyen,
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Jalees Nasir transferred from the McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Masters program to the Ph.D. program today! Jalees’s work focusses on the developing new genomic
Waglechner N, McArthur AG, Wright GD. Nat Microbiol. 2019 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print] Glycopeptide antibiotics are produced by Actinobacteria through biosynthetic gene clusters
PCR detection of mixed and zoonoses Malaria using Plasmodium spp dynein light chain (dlc-tctex) gene
Kariuki MW, Githui E, McArthur AG, Aman RA, Njagi NM, Mwangemi AC, Kamau LW Annual Research & Review in Biology, 32, 1-12. Novel gene targets
Maguire, F., B. Alcock, A.R. Raphenya, B. Jia. E.J. Griffiths, T.C. Matthews, J. Adam, A. Petkau, G.L. Winsor, IRIDA Consortium, R.G. Beiko, F.S.L. Brinkman, W.W.L.
Faltyn, M., B. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2019. Evolution and nomenclature of the trimethoprim resistant dihydrofolate (dfr) reductases. Preprints 2019, 2019050137. [Preprint] Tsang, K.K., D.J.
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David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery gives researchers a fighting chance against antimicrobial resistance. A forward-looking McMaster donor is investing $7 million in a new
Empowering conventional antibiotics with new drug leads targeting the outer-membrane of Gram-negative pathogens. E. Brown (PI), G.D. Wright (co-I), B. Coombes (co-I), A.G. McArthur (co-I),
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MacData Summer School 2019
Dr. McArthur and PhD student Kara Tsang taught together at the 2019 MacData Institute Summer School, with Dr. McArthur reviewing biocuration and bioinformatics for genomic
Welcome to our 2019 Summer students Rachel Tran, Megane Bouchard, and Arman Edalatmand, plus curation volunteers Anna-Lisa Nguyen and William Huynh! Rachel is collaborating with the
Speicher, D.J., K. Luinstra, J. Maciejewski, K.K. Tsang, A.G. McArthur, & M. Smieja. 2019. Clostridioides difficile strain divergence over time. Oral presentation at the Association of
April 2019 big #card_release #RGI5! Resistance Gene Identifier Version 5: entirely new algorithms for metagenomics data, new options for genomes & assemblies. Extensively updated documentation,
Congratulations to Rachel Tran on winning a 2019 DBCAD Summer Fellowship! These competitive awards are designed to support students working in the labs of members
The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database has been updated, http://card.mcmaster.ca CARD Curation: Expanded MCR, OXA & IMP beta-lactamase, and macrolide phosphotransferase (MPH) sequence curation. Updated nomenclature
Srinivasan, K.A., S.K. Virdee, & A.G. McArthur. 2019. Strandedness during cDNA synthesis, the stranded parameter in htseq-count, and analysis of RNA-Seq data. Preprints 2019, 2019030124.
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State of the CARD 2019
A week of lectures, demos, and training for the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database During McMaster Spring Mid-Term Recess (February 18-24), the McArthur lab is pleased
We welcome (left to right) Malvika Agarwal, Megane Bouchard, Amro Elrafie, and Hafsa Omer to the lab as data curation volunteers, working collectively to collate
A busy year for Dr. McArthur outside of academia… Integrated Health Biosystems Chair – Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in the Age of Molecular Epidemiology. Invited presentation