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, and diagnostics at Hamilton Health Sciences (with Dr. Marek Smieja) and McMaster University (with Dr. Andrew McArthur). Outside of continued work on COVID-19 variant surveillance and outbreak analysis, Dr. Baker will be expanding his work on C. difficile transmission dynamics in clinical settings. See the McMaster news story with all the details: McMaster postdoc awarded $160,000 fellowship to study C. difficile transmission