Category: presentations
A busy year for Dr. McArthur outside of academia… Integrated Health Biosystems Chair – Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in the Age of Molecular Epidemiology. Invited presentation
Congratulations to #TeamVirulence for winning the 2018 McMaster Innovation Showcase People’s Choice Poster Award for their poster entitled, “Examining the relationship between virulence and antimicrobial resistance
Some invitations are more special than others. Dr. Peixoto da Cruz and I went to graduate school together in British Columbia (a long time ago!)
Maguire, F., B. Alcock, F.S. Brinkman, A.G. McArthur, & R.G. Beiko. 2018. AMRtime: Rapid Accurate Identification of Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants from Metagenomic Data. Oral presentation
Tsang, K.K., H. Zubyk, S. Chou, G.D. Wright, & A.G. McArthur. Decoding bad bags: Predicting antibiotic resistance phenotypes from genotype. Oral presentation at the Canadian Society of
Alcock, B., A.R. Raphenya, A.N. Sharma, K.K. Tsang, T.T.Y. Lau, A. Hernandez-Koutoucheva, & A.G. McArthur. 2018. Data and curation in the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database.
Dr. McArthur has been busy doing some Government outreach. In early 2018 he was a Panellist on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare at Norwegian Health Ministry &
Florescu, A., B. Alcock, A. Raphenya, & A.G. McArthur. 2018. Incorporating phenotypic testing into ontological data sharing paradigms. Presentation at Ontario Biology Day, Waterloo, Ontario,
Tsang, K.K. & A.G. McArthur. 2017. Encoding the efflux pump phenomena. Oral presentation at the Second American Society for Microbiology Meeting on Rapid Applied Microbial
We haven’t been travelling much this year, but our collaborators have been busy! Dearborn, D.C., A.B. Gager, A.G. McArthur, M.E. Gilmour, E. Mandzhukova, R.A. Mauck.
IIDR Trainee Day & USRA Poster Session 2016
Three of our undergraduate students gave poster presentations in the last month. Arjun Sharma (Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences 3rd year) outlined his work on developing the
McArthur, A.G., B. Jia, A.R. Raphenya, P. Guo, K. Tsang, B. Dave, B. Alcock, B. Lago, N. Waglechner, & G.D. Wright. 2016. The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance
Congratulations to Kara Tsang and Zachary Lin on completion of their Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization (BDC) 4A15 thesis research! Both Kara & Zachary presented their research
Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.
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
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