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

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 agmcarthur

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.,

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Minimal impact on the resistome of children in Botswana after azithromycin treatment for acute severe diarrhoeal disease

February 3, 2024February 3, 2024 agmcarthur

Allison K Guitor, Anna Katyukhina, Margaret Mokomane, Kwana Lechiile, David M Goldfarb, Gerard D Wright, Andrew G McArthur, & Jeffrey M Pernica J Infect Dis.

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Chronic COVID-19 infection in an immunosuppressed patient shows changes in lineage over time: a case report

January 5, 2024 agmcarthur

Sheridan J C Baker , Landry E Nfonsam , Daniela Leto , Candy Rutherford , Marek Smieja , & Andrew G McArthur Virol J. 2024

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IIDR Trainee Day 2023

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 agmcarthur

COLIN BRUCE – Investigating Fibre Degradation in the Infant Gut Microbiota ; DIRK HACKENBERGER – Was World War 2 Foundational to the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis?

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

November 1, 2023December 1, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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Welcome to the McArthur Lab Undergraduate Crew 2023-2024!

September 5, 2023August 28, 2023 agmcarthur

2023-2024 Thesis & Inquiry Course Students Kriti Goel (3rd year Biochemistry) – BIOCHEM 3R06 Tiffany Ta (4th year Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization) – BIOMEDDC 4A15 Kristine

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Welcome Dr. Brody Duncan!

September 1, 2023August 28, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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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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Congratulations Amogelang Raphenya on the completion of your M.Sc.!

June 16, 2023June 16, 2023 agmcarthur

While many know of Amogelang (Amos) Raphenya as the Lead CARD Developer and a local, national, and international resource for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance,

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Welcome Colin Bruce!

June 12, 2023June 16, 2023 agmcarthur

Colin Bruce joins us by way of the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Stearns and will be completing the last year of his PhD studies with

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Happy 10th Anniversary CARD!

June 11, 2023June 12, 2023 agmcarthur

Today the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database turns 10 years old! While it started a few years before this in the laboratory of Dr. Gerry Wright,

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Chan Zuckerberg ID and the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database collaborate to add Resistome prediction to the CZ ID platform

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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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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Biocuration 2023

April 24, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

Alcock, B.P., A.R. Raphenya, A. Edalatmand, & A.G. McArthur. 2023. The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database – curating the global resistome. Oral presentation at the 16th

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CBW & VTEC 2023

April 18, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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Congratulations Nisha Tailor & Fatimah Jessa, 2022-2023 Thesis Students!

April 15, 2023April 15, 2023 agmcarthur

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

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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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