Read more at http://techonomy.com/2016/06/the-superbugs-are-coming-data-science-can-help/
Category: antibiotic resistance
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
McMaster Interdisciplinary Research Exposition (MIREx); Ontario Biology Day; Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization Engage Symposium; Rapid Microbial NGS and Bioinformatics: Translation Into Practice (Germany); Canadian Food Inspection Agency Forum on
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
Arjun Sharma is a 2cd year Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences student how as a volunteer designed and created the new AMR Forums! Learn more about
Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.
Brian Alcock has joined the McArthur Lab to lead curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (arpcard.mcmaster.ca). Brian recently completed his MSc in the laboratory
antibiotic resistance BDC bioinformatics databases epidemiology Galaxy genomics lab members presentations
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
#WorldAntibioticAwarenessWeek #AntibioticResistance
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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
Authors: Freschi et al. Front Microbiol. 2015 Sep 29;6:1036. The International Pseudomonas aeruginosa Consortium is sequencing over 1000 genomes and building an analysis pipeline for the study
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
Authors: McArthur AG, Wright GD. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2015 Jul 31;27:45-50. Antimicrobial resistance is a global health challenge and has an evolutionary trajectory ranging from
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
Authors: Dhillon BK, Laird MR, Shay JA, Winsor GL, Lo R, Nizam F, Pereira SK, Waglechner N, McArthur AG, Langille MG, Brinkman FS. Nucleic Acids Res.
Amos Raphenya and Pearl Guo have joined the McArthur Lab! Amos graduated from McMaster with Bachelor of Computer Engineering in 2008 and joins the lab
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