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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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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Emily Panousis wins the Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship for her work on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance!
More information about IIDR Trainee Day and Michael Kamin Hart here.
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Jalen Singh, Pranav Pandit, Andrew G McArthur, Arinjay Banerjee, Karen Mossman Virology Journal. 2021 Aug 13;18(1):166. The emergence of a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory
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Jalees Nasir awarded 2021 Fred & Helen Knight Enrichment Award!
Congratulations to PhD student Jalees Nasir, who has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Fred & Helen Knight Enrichment Award, which recognizes exceptional promise in early
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Surface and air contamination with SARS-CoV-2 from hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Toronto, Canada
Kotwa et al. 2021. medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.17.21257122 Background: The aim of this prospective cohort study was to determine the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on
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Sjaarda, C.P., J.L. Guthrie, S. Mubareka, J.T. Simpson, B. Hamelin, H. Wong, L. Mortimer, R. Slinger, A.G. McArthur, M. Desjardins, K. Douchant, Ontario’s COVID-19 Genomics
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Banerjee, A., N. El-Sayes, P. Budylowski, D. Richard, H. Maan, J. Aguiar, K. Baid, M. D’Agostino, J. Ang, B. Tremblay, S. Afkhami, M. Karimzadeh, A.
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Congratulations Emily Panousis on being awarded a 2021 IIDR Summer Student Fellowship! For nine years now, these awards have supported trainees working in IIDR and
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WISE CREST, Ontario Biology Day, BBS Research Symposium 2021
McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Research Symposium Edalatmand. A. & A.G. McArthur. 2021. Ontology-driven method of contextualizing antimicrobial resistance determinants. Poster presentation at the McMaster