Congratulations Jalees Nasir on being awarded the Dr. Jordon Page Harshman Bursary! The Dr. Jordan Page Harsham Bursary was established in 2011 by the Harshman
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Congratulations Dr. Sheridan Baker on being awarded a 2-year Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will allow him to train jointly in clinical epidemiology, molecular epidemiology,
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!
KARYN MUKIRI – Predicting the total resistome KEATON SMITH – Advancements in curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database JALEES NASIR – Viral fishing expedition:
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
RGI version 6.0.0 – Major release, with parameter and reference data loading changes that may impact scripts. Please see updated README. Added an option (–keep)
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
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
(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.
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
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
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.
Kim et al. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2022 May 25;e0017921. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis that poses a great threat to modern medicine.
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Enabling genomic island prediction and comparison in multiple genomes to investigate bacterial evolution and outbreaks
Bertelli et al. Microb Genom. 2022 May;8(5). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000818. Outbreaks of virulent and/or drug-resistant bacteria have a significant impact on human health and major economic
Sanderson et al. 2022. bioRxiv 10.1101/2022.04.11.487771. Enterococcus faecium is a ubiquitous opportunistic pathogen that is exhibiting increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Many of the
Karyn Mukiri – Predicting the Total Resistome Mugdha Dave – Creation and standardization of automated bacterial pathogen genomic sequencing reporting through informatics
The McArthur lab welcomes Madeline McCarthy, a recent MSc graduate of VIDO / USask, as she join us for her PhD studies in the McMaster
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Emily Panousis wins the Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship for her work on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance!
More information about IIDR Trainee Day and Michael Kamin Hart here.
Today we say goodbye to William Huynh, who first joined us as an undergraduate thesis student and then stayed on to work as the Comprehensive
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Jalees Nasir awarded 2021 Fred & Helen Knight Enrichment Award!
Congratulations to PhD student Jalees Nasir, who has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Fred & Helen Knight Enrichment Award, which recognizes exceptional promise in early