A good part of the McArthur Lab traveled in March to the UK for the biennial Genomes, Big Data, and Emerging Technologies conference at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK.
Congratulations to Tiffany Ta for winning the conference Best Poster award!
Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies Conference
- Mukiri, K., B.P. Alcock, A.R. Raphenya, & A.G. McArthur. 2026. Predicting the total bacterial resistome: enabling flexible antimicrobial resistance determinant prediction by the Resistance Gene Identifier. Poster presentation at the Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
- Nasir, J.A. & A.G. McArthur. 2026. CARD-LinkML: connecting the dots to develop frameworks for multicomponent antibiotic resistance. Poster presentation at the Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
- Raphenya, A.R., B.P. Alcock, F. Maguire, & A.G. McArthur. 2026. RGI bwt: A software pipeline for predicting AMR genes from raw bacterial short-read sequences. Poster presentation at the Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
- Ta, T.E., A.R. Raphenya, B.P. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2026. Using natural language processing for antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Poster presentation at the Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
- Tsang, K., K. Holt, & KlebNET-GSP AMR Genotype-Phenotype group. 2026. Genomic landscape of antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella quasipneumoniae and Klebsiella variicola. Poster presentation at the Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Bonus! One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance & Emerging Zoonoses Conference
Mateusz did not join us at the UK conference as he had his own presentation in Calgary:
- Wlodarski, M. & A.G. McArthur. 2026. AI-driven detection & annotation of divergent β-lactamases. Poster presentation at the One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance & Emerging Zoonoses conference, Calgary, Canada.
AMMRules, CARD, and AllTheBacteria Hackathon!
The UK conference was followed up with a two-day hackathon at Cambridge University, with Mateusz now joining!
