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Monday, January 31, 2022

First publication on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

Check out the first publication from CUBE (Coronavirus in the Urban Built Environment) team! We're very excited to be part of this... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Back at it

We haven't been very good at updating the news feed lately. The last few years have been hugely challenging due to Covid-19. We've been fortunate to be able to continue our research in the lab, albeit with reduced capacity. We've had a number of graduations (Amanda Carroll, Destina Mattrasingh, Isaac Bedard), and have welcomed... More

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Congratulations Kamya!

Kamya successfully defended her PhD thesis on August 2nd! Kamya studied the genetics and evolution of antimicrobial... More

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Alex on sabbatical

Alex is on sabbatical from July 1, 2019 to June 20, 2020. He is in Portugal for the fall, hosted at the Gulbenkian Institute by Claudia... More

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Congratulations Katie!

Katie Noah successfully defended her thesis on July 29th! She worked on genome-wide association studies for pathoadaptive mutations in Pseudomonas... More

Monday, February 25, 2019

Development Grant

Together with Kyle Biggar and Joerg Overhage, we've been awarded a Development Grant from Carleton University to work on antimicrobial... More

Monday, February 25, 2019

Conference

This coming April 4-5, we'll be hosting a conference on the Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Disease. We have some great speakers lined up - hope you can join us!... More

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Hurray!

Tanis McMahon has won an open access award from Carleton's library! Tanis developed a method for single-cell droplet PCR for the detection of STEC. https://library.carleton.ca/services/scholarly-communications/open-access/gs-oa-award/2017-2018-award-recipients Tanis finished her MSc with CFIA scientists Catherine Carrillo and Burton Blais (and me... More

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Congratulations Leah!

Leah successfully defended her MSc on September... More

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Congratulations Bryn!

Bryn Hazlett successfully defended her MSc on September... More

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Honours poster day

Today was Honours poster day. Congratulations to Dylan, Jessica, Ben, and Laura for their great work this... More

Thursday, February 8, 2018

New paper in GBE

Our new paper is out in Genome Biology and Evolution! Prabh Basra and Ahlam Alsaadi (both former MSc students) spearheaded this work on trade-offs between drug resistance and fitness in the absence of drug in clinical isolates of E. coli.... More

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