Collaborations and our work presented throughout the world! Amoako, D., G. Chalmers, K. Schutten, B.N. Lillie, H.M. Murphy, C.M. Jardine, D. Tulpan, B.P. Alcock ,
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Talk to her a few years ago, and Amy Baik might describe herself as rudderless. The then-Life Sciences student says she was “just going through
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Zoonoses, AMR, and BioInformatics (ZAMBI) 2026 Conference
Thanks for a great conference, Dalhousie University! Baik, A.S., M.A. Wlodarski, & A.G. McArthur. 2026. Empowering municipal wastewater surveillance of antimicrobial resistance genes. 2026. Poster
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World Congress on Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jalees Nasir gave both a talk and poster at the World Congress on Infectious Diseases in Barcelona, Spain (and won best poster!). Nasir, J.A.,
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Canadian Society of Microbiologists 2026 Conference
The McArthur lab a great time at CSM 2026, including several poster and oral presentations! Amoako, D., G. Chalmers, K. Schutten, B.N. Lillie, H.M. Murphy,
ID/IIDR Rounds webinar featuring Dr. Brody Duncan and Karyn Mukiri of the McArthur lab! Video to be posted here.
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Undergraduate News – Departures, Awards & Summer Students
Congratulations to the undergraduates that finished their thesis or research project at the end of April! Lucas Fong (BIOMEDDC 4A15) – Predicting phenotypic multi-drug and
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Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies Conference (plus hackathon!)
A good part of the McArthur Lab traveled in March to the UK for the biennial Genomes, Big Data, and Emerging Technologies conference at the
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19th WISE Annual National Research Conference
This past weekend was the 19th Women In Science & Engineering Annual National Research Conference at McMaster and the McArthur & Wilson labs connected during
Congratulations to Karyn Mukiri for being awarded a 2025-2026 Ontario Graduate Scholarship and to Mateusz Wlodarski for being awarded a 2026 CAN-AMR-Net Graduate Scholarship. Well
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Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Conference
Wlodarski, M.A., T.T.Y. Lau, B.P. Alcock, A.R. Raphenya, T.E. Ta, F. Maguire, R.G. Beiko, & A.G. McArthur. 2025. Unmasking antibiotic resistance genes and their pathogen
Komorowski et al. 2025. Journal of Infectious Diseases, in press. Background: Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic AmpC β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales associated with intensive care unit outbreaks,
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33rd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Mukiri, K., B. Alcock, A. Raphenya, & A.G. McArthur. 2025. Mind the gap: predicting the total bacterial resistome in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Poster
Lu et al. Genome Med. 2025 May 6;17(1):46. Background: Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens represent urgent threats to human health, and their surveillance is of paramount
Antibiotics and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future By DIRK L HACKENBERGER, B.Sc. A thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies in partial fulfillment of
Wlodarski, M.A., T.T.Y. Lau, B.P. Alcock, A.R. Raphenya, F. Maguire, R.G. Beiko, T.E. Ta, & A.G. McArthur. 2025. Unmasking antibiotic resistance genes and their pathogen
Hackenberger et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2025 Feb 28:e0187624. Better interrogation of antimicrobial resistance requires new approaches to detect the associated genes in metagenomic samples.
Two alumni of the McMaster Biochemistry graduate program have joined the McArthur Lab! Dr. Emily Bordeleau got her PhD from McMaster in 2022 under the