It is with great pleasure that we announce that Dr. Jalees Nasir has been awarded the 2025 McMaster Health Sciences Graduate Student Association (HSGSA) Impact
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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

Congratulations Dr. Jalees Nasir!
Designing Molecular Fishhooks for Virus Survellance Platforms By JALEES A. NASIR, B.Sc A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of

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

This week we say farewell to Dr. Sheridan Baker, who joined us in early 2021 as lead molecular biologist for our Ontario Genomics Coalition (ONCoV)

IIDR Trainee Day 2024!
A great day of posters and presentations by the trainees of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research! Nilasha Mohan, Undergraduate student. Developing

This September we welcome new graduate students Tiffany Ta and Suhayb Hafiz. Tiffany joins us from the McMaster Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization program and will

Welcome to the lab thesis students Trisha Parchoor, Sidrah Shaikh, Nilasha Mohan, & Abby Williams!

Lab alumni Arman Edalatmand returned and won the match!

CSM Mukiri, K.M., B.P. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2024. Increasing the predictive accuracy of the Resistance Gene Identifier by abandoning sole reliance on bitscore.

Welcome to BDC post-grad Tiffany Ta, and incoming thesis students Nilasha Mohan and Sidrah Shaikh to their summer placements!

Congratulations to Colin Bruce for winning First Place PhD poster at the Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Research Symposium!

IIDR Trainee Day 2023
COLIN BRUCE – Investigating Fibre Degradation in the Infant Gut Microbiota ; DIRK HACKENBERGER – Was World War 2 Foundational to the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis?

2023-2024 Thesis & Inquiry Course Students Kriti Goel (3rd year Biochemistry) – BIOCHEM 3R06 Tiffany Ta (4th year Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization) – BIOMEDDC 4A15 Kristine

The McArthur lab welcomes Brody Duncan, M.D. (Hamilton Health Sciences) as he starts his M.Sc. studies with us, investigating standards and methods for clinical reporting

Amogelang Raphenya makes his triumphant return to the top of the leaderboard!

Baker, S.J.C., J. Maciejewski, M.-T. Usuanlele, J. Gilchrist, D.R. Sharma, D. Bulir, M. Smieja, M. Loeb, M.G. Surette, A.G. McArthur, & D. Mertz. 2023. Investigating

While many know of Amogelang (Amos) Raphenya as the Lead CARD Developer and a local, national, and international resource for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance,