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Canadian Society of Microbiologists 2023

June 28, 2023July 3, 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, A.G. McArthur, & D. Mertz. 2023. Investigating

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Sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies and resistance to Type I interferons in SARS-CoV-2 R.1 lineage variants, Canada

June 21, 2023June 21, 2023 agmcarthur

Jacob et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Jun 12;29(7). Isolating and characterizing emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants is key to understanding virus pathogenesis. In this study, we

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SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) update

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

The SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) has been updated to version 1.6.2, with an important hotfix to address software version incompatibility for rules using

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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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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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Congratulations Dr. Sheridan Baker – Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 9, 2023March 3, 2023 agmcarthur

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,

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Summer Conferences 2022

July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 agmcarthur

(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.

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The Dataharmonizer: a Tool for Faster Data Harmonization, Validation, Aggregation, and Analysis of Pathogen Genomics Contextual Information

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 agmcarthur

Gill et al. 2022. Preprints 10.20944/preprints202206.0335.v1 Pathogen genomics is a critical tool for public health surveillance, infection control, outbreak investigations, as well as research. In

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Future-proofing and maximizing the utility of metadata: The PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification package

February 13, 2022April 13, 2022 agmcarthur

Emma J. Griffiths et al. Gigascience. 2022 Feb 16;11:giac003. Background: The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) (https://pha4ge.org) is a global coalition that is

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