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Congratulations Dr. Jalees Nasir!

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 agmcarthur

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

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Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Research Symposium 2025

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 agmcarthur
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One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance and Emerging Zoonoses Conference

March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 agmcarthur

Wlodarski, M.A., T.T.Y. Lau, B.P. Alcock, A.R. Raphenya, F. Maguire, R.G. Beiko, T.E. Ta, & A.G. McArthur. 2025. Unmasking antibiotic resistance genes and their pathogen

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CARPDM: cost-effective antibiotic resistome profiling of metagenomic samples using targeted enrichment

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 agmcarthur

Hackenberger et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2025 Feb 28:e0187624. Better interrogation of antimicrobial resistance requires new approaches to detect the associated genes in metagenomic samples.

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Post-Doc Update

February 16, 2025February 26, 2025 agmcarthur

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

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3rd Annual Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 agmcarthur

Mateusz Wlodarski wins the bioMerieux prize for best poster presentation! Arnold, A., A.R. Raphenya, A.G. McArthur, & J.M. Stokes. 2024. The ESKAPE model: AI-guided antibiotic

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IIDR Trainee Day 2024!

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 agmcarthur

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

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ASM NGS Meeting 2024

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 agmcarthur

Wlodarski, M.A., T.T.Y. Lau, A.R. Raphenya, B.P. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2024. Accurate pathogen-of-origin classification of antibiotic resistance genes with CARD k-mers. Presentation at the

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ID-IIDR Rounds

October 2, 2024October 6, 2024 agmcarthur

This one-hour webinar, entitled “DNA sequencing in infectious disease surveillance, diagnosis, and management,” features talks from Andrew McArthur (Professor, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences) and Rubayet

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Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies – Wellcome Trust, UK

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 agmcarthur

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. Ta, T.E.,

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Chronic COVID-19 infection in an immunosuppressed patient shows changes in lineage over time: a case report

January 5, 2024 agmcarthur

Sheridan J C Baker , Landry E Nfonsam , Daniela Leto , Candy Rutherford , Marek Smieja , & Andrew G McArthur Virol J. 2024

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IIDR Trainee Day 2023

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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ID-IIDR Rounds – Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile: new insights from the clinic and laboratory

November 1, 2023December 1, 2023 agmcarthur

This one-hour webinar features talks from Marek Smieja (Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine), Sheridan Baker (Postdoctoral Fellow, The McArthur Lab and Smieja Lab), and Maddie

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Welcome Dr. Brody Duncan!

September 1, 2023August 28, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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Chan Zuckerberg ID and the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database collaborate to add Resistome prediction to the CZ ID platform

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

CARD and CZ ID are thrilled to launch a new CZ ID module that allows researchers to detect and analyze antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes in

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SARS-COV-2 outbreak investigation using contact tracing and whole-genome sequencing in an Ontario tertiary care hospital

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

Tsang et al. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Apr 24;e0190022. Genomic epidemiology can facilitate an understanding of evolutionary history and transmission dynamics of a severe acute respiratory

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CBW & VTEC 2023

April 18, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

They’re back! Thanks to Karyn Mukiri, Jalees Nasir, and Madeline McCarthy for serving as Teaching Assistants for the re-booted Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Infectious Disease

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Congratulations Nisha Tailor & Fatimah Jessa, 2022-2023 Thesis Students!

April 15, 2023April 15, 2023 agmcarthur

Nisha & Fatimah completed the year with their Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization thesis presentations on Shigella bait capture and resistome software accuracy, respectively. Great work

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33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

April 15, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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Congratulations Ph.D. student Jalees Nasir!

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 agmcarthur

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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