We haven’t been travelling much this year, but our collaborators have been busy! Dearborn, D.C., A.B. Gager, A.G. McArthur, M.E. Gilmour, E. Mandzhukova, R.A. Mauck.
Category: presentations
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IIDR Trainee Day & USRA Poster Session 2016
Three of our undergraduate students gave poster presentations in the last month. Arjun Sharma (Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences 3rd year) outlined his work on developing the
McArthur, A.G., B. Jia, A.R. Raphenya, P. Guo, K. Tsang, B. Dave, B. Alcock, B. Lago, N. Waglechner, & G.D. Wright. 2016. The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance
Congratulations to Kara Tsang and Zachary Lin on completion of their Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization (BDC) 4A15 thesis research! Both Kara & Zachary presented their research
Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.
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The Inaugural Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization (BDC) Symposium
Zachary Lin – Adapting Galaxy bioinformatics to outbreak-associated Clostridium difficile The completion of the human genome project in 2001 sparked the beginning of a sequencing revolution
Dr. McArthur gave a MacTalk at McMaster’s Big Ideas Better Cities evenings on Health and Social Innovation through Big Data about “Combatting antibiotic resistance using surveillance”. See
http://traineeday2015.mcmasteriidr.ca
Wright, G.D. & A.G. McArthur. 2015. A bioinformatic platform for the characterization of antibiotic resistance in bacterial genomes and metagenomes. Presentation at the 2015 Interscience
I spent July travelling to two great meetings in the British Isles. First was the Galaxy Community Conference in Norwich, UK which provided a crash
One of the themes in the McArthurLab is research at the intersection of academia, government, and industry. We endeavour to work with government agencies and
McArthur, A.G., Waglechner, N., Nizam, F., Pereira, S.K., Jia, B., Sardar, D., Westman, E.L., Pawlowski, A.C., Johnson, T., Lo, R., Courtot, M., Brinkman, F.S., Williams,
Graham, C., D. Boreham, T. Glenn, S. Lance, J. Martino, R. Manzon, A.G. McArthur, S. Rogers, J.Y. Wilson, & C. Somers. 2014. Low quality DNA
Today was the annual Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) Research Trainee Day, a great day of presentations and posters. Congratulations to
Smith, E.M., A.G. McArthur, M. Galus, S. Higgins, N. Kirischian, J. Jeyaranjaan, & J.Y. Wilson. 2014. Transcriptional responses of zebrafish to pharmaceutical and wastewater exposure:
Williams, L.E., A.G. McArthur, N. Waglechner, F. Nizam, P.T. Desai, M. McClelland, G.M. Weinstock, J.B. Barrett, L.M. Hiott, C.R. Jackson, & J.G. Frye. 2014. Genetic
Karchner, S.I., D.G. Franks, A.R. Timme-Laragy, A.G. McArthur, & M.E. Hahn. 2013. Chemical-specific oxidative stress response in zebrafish embryos. Presentation at the Pollutant Responses in
Jenny, M.J., E.E. Linney, B. O’Shields, A. Holowiecki, A.G. McArthur. 2013. Global transcriptional analysis of zebrafish embryos following acute exposure to cadmium. Presentation at the