Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.
Category: antibiotic resistance
Brian Alcock has joined the McArthur Lab to lead curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (arpcard.mcmaster.ca). Brian recently completed his MSc in the laboratory
The Inaugural Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization (BDC) Symposium
Zachary Lin – Adapting Galaxy bioinformatics to outbreak-associated Clostridium difficile The completion of the human genome project in 2001 sparked the beginning of a sequencing revolution
#WorldAntibioticAwarenessWeek #AntibioticResistance
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Dr. McArthur gave a MacTalk at McMaster’s Big Ideas Better Cities evenings on Health and Social Innovation through Big Data about “Combatting antibiotic resistance using surveillance”. See
http://traineeday2015.mcmasteriidr.ca
Authors: Freschi et al. Front Microbiol. 2015 Sep 29;6:1036. The International Pseudomonas aeruginosa Consortium is sequencing over 1000 genomes and building an analysis pipeline for the study
Wright, G.D. & A.G. McArthur. 2015. A bioinformatic platform for the characterization of antibiotic resistance in bacterial genomes and metagenomes. Presentation at the 2015 Interscience