Congratulations to PhD student Jalees Nasir, who has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Fred & Helen Knight Enrichment Award, which recognizes exceptional promise in early
Category: SARS-CoV-2

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

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

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.

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

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

Imagine a tiny molecular machine armed with a program to infect human cells, subvert their defenses and make copies of itself to infect neighboring cells

As part of our continuing efforts on genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants for CanCOGeN, the McArthur lab welcomes Sheridan Baker, who will be doing the

In collaboration with our colleague Dr. Finlay Maguire (Dalhousie University) and as part of our ongoing work for Ontario’s COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition and the Canadian

IIDR Trainee Day 2020! Forging the Future of Infectious Disease Research
Nasir, J.A et al. 2020. SIGNALing the Need for Surveillance: A Comparison of Whole Genome Sequencing Methods for SARS-CoV-2. Edalatmand, A. & A.G. McArthur. 2020.

McMaster is launching The Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats, to ensure Canada and the world are better able to manage the human and

Arinjay Banerjee, Andrew C Doxey, Benjamin J-M Tremblay, Michael J Mansfield, Sonu Subudhi, Jeremy A Hirota, Matthew S Miller, Andrew G McArthur, Samira Mubareka, &

A Comparison of Whole Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Using Amplicon-Based Sequencing, Random Hexamers, and Bait Capture
Jalees A. Nasir, Robert A. Kozak, Patryk Aftanas, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Kendrick M. Smith, Finlay Maguire, Hassaan Maan, Muhannad Alruwaili, Arinjay Banerjee, Hamza Mbareche, Brian

Emma J. Griffiths, Ruth E. Timme, Andrew J. Page, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Dan Fornika, Finlay Maguire, Catarina Inês Mendes, Simon H. Tausch, Allison Black, Thomas R.

Arinjay Banerjee, Patrick Budylowski, Daniel Richard, Hassaan Maan, Jennifer A. Aguiar, Nader El-Sayes, Michael R. D’Agostino, Benjamin J.-M. Tremblay, Sam Afkhami, Mehran Karimzadeh, Lily Yip,

Maan, H., H. Mbareche, A.R. Raphenya, A. Banerjee, J.A. Nasir, R.A. Kozak, N. Knox, S. Mubareka, A.G. McArthur, & B. Wang. The Lancet Digital Health,

Thanks to hard work by Jalees Nasir, Amos Raphenya, Dr. Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute), and Dr. Finlay Maguire (Dalhousie) with help from our Ontario Coronavirus

The McArthur lab welcomes Ahmed Draia for an internship placement as part of McMaster’s Masters of Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization (MBDC) program. Reflective of his

Banerjee, A., J.A. Nasir, P. Budylowski, L. Yip, P. Aftanas, N. Christie, A. Ghalami, K. Baid, A.R. Raphenya, J.A. Hirota, M.S. Miller, A.J. McGeer, M.A.