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
Category: molecular epidemiology

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chronic COVID-19 infection in an immunosuppressed patient shows changes in lineage over time: a case report
Sheridan J C Baker , Landry E Nfonsam , Daniela Leto , Candy Rutherford , Marek Smieja , & Andrew G McArthur Virol J. 2024

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?

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

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

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

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

CBW & VTEC 2023
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

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

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

Congratulations Ph.D. student Jalees Nasir!
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