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Category: genomics

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

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

All online this year due to COVID-19, but some great presentations and virtual posters by our trainees and collaborators! Edalatmand, A. & A.G. McArthur. 2021.

Ashley M. Rooney, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Roberto G. Melano, Christine Seah, Noelle R. Yee, Derek R. MacFadden, Andrew G. McArthur, Pierre H.H. Schneeberger, Bryan Coburn.

Sjaarda, C.P., J.L. Guthrie, S. Mubareka, J.T. Simpson, B. Hamelin, H. Wong, L. Mortimer, R. Slinger, A.G. McArthur, M. Desjardins, K. Douchant, Ontario’s COVID-19 Genomics

In collaboration with our colleague Dr. Finlay Maguire (Dalhousie University) and as part of our ongoing work for Ontario’s COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition and the Canadian

It is with great pleasure the McArthur lab announces that Lead Developer for the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD), Amos Raphenya, is starting his M.Sc.

Kara K. Tsang, Finlay Maguire, Haley L. Zubyk, Sommer Chou, Arman Edalatmand, Gerard D. Wright, Robert G. Beiko, & Andrew G. McArthur Microbial Genomics, in

Charlie Tan, Fang-I Lu, Patryk Aftanas, Kara Tsang, Samira Mubareka, Adrienne Chan, & Robert Kozak IDCases. 2020. 23:e01034. We describe the case of a 33-year-old

Adam S Komorowski, Xena X Li, Eva Piessens, Andrew G McArthur, & Ameen Patel Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada,

Shehryar Ahmad, Kara L Tsang, Kartik Sachar, Dennis Quentin, Tahmid M Tashin, Nathan P Bullen, Stefan Raunser, Andrew G McArthur, Gerd Prehna, & John C

Aaron Petkau performed his Visual & Automated Disease Analytics Program internship (Univ. of Manitoba) with us during the summer of 2020, creating the CARD:Live graphic

IIDR Trainee Day 2020! Forging the Future of Infectious Disease Research
Nasir, J.A et al. 2020. SIGNALing the Need for Surveillance: A Comparison of Whole Genome Sequencing Methods for SARS-CoV-2. Edalatmand, A. & A.G. McArthur. 2020.

Congratulations Martins Oloni on the successful defence of your Masters of Science! New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase (NDM) plasmid predictions The complete detection and genome sequencing of

A Comparison of Whole Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Using Amplicon-Based Sequencing, Random Hexamers, and Bait Capture
Jalees A. Nasir, Robert A. Kozak, Patryk Aftanas, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Kendrick M. Smith, Finlay Maguire, Hassaan Maan, Muhannad Alruwaili, Arinjay Banerjee, Hamza Mbareche, Brian

Ana T Duggan, Jennifer Klunk, Ashleigh F Porter, Anna N Dhody, Robert Hicks, Geoffrey L Smith, Margaret Humphreys, Andrea M McCollum, Whitni B Davidson, Kimberly

Maan, H., H. Mbareche, A.R. Raphenya, A. Banerjee, J.A. Nasir, R.A. Kozak, N. Knox, S. Mubareka, A.G. McArthur, & B. Wang. The Lancet Digital Health,