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Team Meta-Model Volunteers

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 agmcarthur

The McArthur Lab welcomes Team Meta-Model, a volunteer curation team led by former BioPharm Co-Op Keaton Smith, working on curating and upgrading the Comprehensive Antibiotic

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IIDR Trainee Day 2022!

November 16, 2022December 9, 2022 agmcarthur

KARYN MUKIRI – Predicting the total resistome KEATON SMITH – Advancements in curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database JALEES NASIR – Viral fishing expedition:

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CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

October 20, 2022 agmcarthur

Alcock et al. 2023. Nucleic Acids Res Oct 20, 2022:gkac920. (online ahead of print) The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card.mcmaster.ca) combines the Antibiotic Resistance

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Welcome new M.Sc. student Mateusz Wlodarski!

September 8, 2022October 4, 2022 agmcarthur

The McArthur lab welcomes back past undergraduate student and now newly minted Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences M.Sc. student Mateusz Wlodarski! Mateusz will be working on

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Congratulations Arman Edalatmand on the completion of your M.Sc.!

September 2, 2022September 8, 2022 agmcarthur
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Capturing the antibiotic resistome of preterm infants reveals new benefits of probiotic supplementation

August 26, 2022September 8, 2022 agmcarthur

Guitor et al. 2022. Microbiome 10(1):136. Background: Probiotic use in preterm infants can mitigate the impact of antibiotic exposure and reduce rates of certain illnesses;

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Summer Conferences 2022

July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 agmcarthur

(presenters in bold; lab members underlined) Baker, S.J.C., S. Yaqoob, M.-T. Usuanlele, J. Gilchrist, M. Smieja, M. Loeb, S. Khan, J. Pernica, M.G. Surette, A.G.

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Datasets for benchmarking antimicrobial resistance genes in bacterial metagenomic and whole genome sequencing

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 agmcarthur

Raphenya et al. Scientific Data volume 9, Article number: 341 (2022). Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a key tool in identifying and characterising disease-associated bacteria

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MACGENOM Survey Results

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Mugdha Dave

The burden of drug-resistant infections continues to threaten our arsenal of antibiotics. Despite the rise in genomic sequencing of clinical isolates, there is a lack

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Performance characteristics of next-generation sequencing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance determinants in Escherichia coli genomes and metagenomes

June 1, 2022June 2, 2022 agmcarthur

Rooney et al. 2022 Jun 1;e0002222. Short-read sequencing can provide detection of multiple genomic determinants of antimicrobial resistance from single bacterial genomes and metagenomic samples.

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