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Dept of Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:听听Synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, enzymology, biochemistry
Interests:听听Mechanisms and inhibitors of resistance,听new antimicrobials and听alternatives such as听bacterio-modulators
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Enis BarisSchool of Population and Global Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Global health and healthcare policy, health system governance and evaluation, strategic and managerial corporate leadership
Interests:听听Economic and public health policy for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and AMR
Themes:听 Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics
Stephane BayenDept of听Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Analytical chemistry, modeling, ecological & human health risk assessments
Interests:听听Antibiotic contamination in food chain and natural environment
Themes: Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Marcel BehrDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听 Infectious disease, microbiology (mycobacteria), molecular epidemiology, genomics, infection pathogenesis, BSL3 lab
Interests:听 Anti-mycobacterial drug discovery, diagnostics
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Therapeutics
Albert BerghuisDept of听 Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听 Structural biology, computational biology, enzymology
Interests:听听Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance,听drug design, development of next-generation antibiotics
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Ivan BruknerDept of Clinical Microbiology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Clinical microbiology, molecular diagnostics, assay development and validation
Interests:听听Nucleic acid based molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, antibiotic susceptibility tests
Themes:听 Diagnostics
Bastien CastagnerDept of听Pharmacology & Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Drug Discovery, chemical biology, carbohydrate chemistry, microbiome therapeutics
Interests:听听罢丑别谤补辫别耻迟颈肠蝉 for C. difficile, prebiotics and gut microbiome manipulation for infection prevention
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Jasmin Chahal
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Undergraduate science education (including Tiny Earth), RNA biology and virology
Interests:听听Discovery of novel antibiotic producing soil bacteria through the Tiny Earth initiative
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Matthew ChengDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Infectious diseases, medical microbiology, clinical trials, infectious disease diagnostics
Interests:听听Antimicrobial therapeutics clinical trials
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Ana CopaescuDivision of Allergy and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听 Drug and antibiotic allergy, immunology
Interests:听听 Drug allergy immune-mediated hypersensitivity reactions with an interest for antimicrobial stewardship
Themes:听 Surveillance
Benoit CousineauDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Molecular-biology听and genetics听of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria
Interests:听听Production of听AMP听by probiotics听and activity听against听various human pathogens
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Sebastien FaucherDept of听Natural Resources Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Bacterial genetics, host-pathogen interactions in Salmonella Typhi, Legionella pneumophila
Interests:听听Bacterial Pathogens in non-clinical environments, novel antimicrobials
Themes:听听Surveillance and Prevention
Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Critical care medicine, epidemiology, outcomes research, infection control and surveillance
Interests:听听Hospital acquired AMR infection, antibiotic overuse, stewardship, surveillance in hospital setting
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Charles FrenetteDept of听Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Infectious diseases, Infection Control
Interests:听听Antibiotic stewardship, infection control and hospital-based AMR surveillance
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Dominic FrigonDept of听Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:听听Environmental microbiology, microbiome
Interests:听听Surveillance, diagnostics, modeling of environmental AMR microbiomes, wastewater
Themes:听听Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Richard GoldDept of Law (Faculty of Law)
Expertise:听听Intellectual property, market failure
Interests:听听Open science innovation, drug discovery
Themes:听Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics
Andrew GonzalezDept of听Biology (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:听听Ecology, experimental evolution, biodiversity
Interests:听听AMR evolution, experimental evolution under selection with antibiotics in ecologically complex environments
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Samantha GruenheidDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, mouse infection models
Interests:听听Education, undergraduate Tiny Earth project for antimicrobial discovery
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Shuaiqi GuoDept of Anatomy and Cell Biology (School of Biomedical Sciences)
Expertise:听听Structural biology, cryo- electron tomography and subtomogram averaging, molecular modelling
Interests:听听Molecular mechanism of bacterial adhesion, secretion systems and pathogenesis including Vibrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Themes:听罢丑别谤补辫别耻迟颈肠蝉, Surveillance and Prevention
Adam HartDept of听Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Orthopedic surgery, prosthetic joint infections, animal infection models
Interests:听听Novel approaches and biomaterials for the prevention of post-operative infections
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Terry E. HebertDept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听G-protein coupled receptors and signaling, pharmacology, drug discovery
Interests:听听Cell signaling mechanisms, drug discovery, AMR, science education
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Dept of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Micro and nano bioengineering technologies, Lab-on-a-chip and Microfluidics
Interests:听听Microfluidics, multiplexed diagnostic technologies
Themes:听Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics
Rees KassenDept of Biology (Faculty of Sciences)
Expertise:听 Evolutionary ecology, genetics of microbes, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas microbiology
Interests:听 Evolution and spread of resistance, evolutionary repeatability of resistance targets, microbial diversification
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Arnold KristofDept of Experimental Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Host Immunity
Interests:听听Nutrition and Metabolism, Pneumonia, Nosocomial Infections
Themes:听Diagnostics and Therapeutics
David LanglaisDept of Human Genetics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Functional and single-cell genomics, bioinformatics, genome editing, molecular biology, immunology, inflammation, and infectious diseases
Interests:听听Mechanisms of host defenses against infections, novel therapeutic targets to treat inflammatory diseases and to circumvent antimicrobial resistance
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Yves LongtinDept of听Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Clinical research, infection prevention and control and transmission dynamics in the healthcare setting.
Interests:听听Research interest in infection prevention and control and AMR.
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Vivian LooDept of听Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Infectious diseases, infection control, epidemiology, C. diff infection
Interests:听听Infection transmission and control
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Xiaonan LuDept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Microbiology, Campylobacter, microbial ecology and physiology, food synthetic biology, biosensor and biophotonic technologies
Interests:听听Food microbiology and safety, innovative technologies for food safety and AMR, AMR evolution, pathogenesis of agri-food and public health pathogens
Themes:听 Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Science)
Expertise:听听Bacteriology in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and drug development
Interests:听听Anti-mycobacterial resistance and drug discovery
Themes:听听罢丑别谤补辫别耻迟颈肠蝉
Sara MahshidDept of Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:听听Nanotechnology, biosensors, Lab-on-chip
听滨苍迟别谤别蝉迟蝉:听Nano-surface听fluidic device for phenotypic profiling of antibiotic susceptibility, Point-of-care diagnostic technologies
Themes:听 Diagnostics
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听惭颈肠谤辞产颈辞尘别
Interests:听听bacteriophages, gut microbiota, microbial interactions
Themes:听 Therapeutics, Surveillance and Prevention
Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Chemistry(Faculty of Science)
Expertise:听听Nucleic acid-based biosensors and therapeutics
Interests:听听Bacterial riboswitches and inhibitors
Themes:听罢丑别谤补辫别耻迟颈肠蝉
Joanna MerckxDept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Diagnostic methods for surveillance, infectious disease and social epidemiology
Interests:听听Infectious diseases and AMR epidemiology, public and global health
Themes:听Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
Nicolas MoitessierDept of听Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:听Computational and medicinal chemistry, in silico drug screening and prediction (drug binding and catalyst design)
Interests:听听Antimicrobial drug discovery
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Dao NguyenDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Bacterial genetics, Gram negative,听biofilms, Pseudomonas microbiology, pathogenesis and animal infection models, respiratory medicine, translational research
Interests:听听Antibacterial mode-of-action,听mechanism of resistance,听novel antibacterial, adjuvants and biomaterials
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Therapeutics
Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Structural biology, cryo-electron microscopy
Interests:听 Antibiotic targets and drug discovery, bacterial ribosome biogenesis
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Dept of听Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Epidemiology, TB, global health,听diagnostics,听implementation
Interests:听听Drug resistant听TB, antibiotic听use in India
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Epidemiology, diagnostics, infectious diseases, respiratory viruses
Interests:听听Infectious disease diagnostics, biomarkers and microbiome
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Michael ReedDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听 Bacteriology, molecular microbiology, mycobacterial genetics, BSL3 pathogen research
Interests:听 Mechanisms of resistance, MDR (M. tuberculosis)
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Dept of Biology (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:听听Fluorescence microscopy, Genome integrity, Cell biology of bacteria
Interests:听听Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in a cellular context, antibiotic targets in DNA duplication enzymes
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Jennifer RonholmDept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听 One Health, food and environmental microbiology, microbiome, microbial genomics
Interests:听听Animal microbiome ,听AMR transmission, One Health, antibiotic use in agriculture, food safety
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Derek RosenzweigDept of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Biomaterial听and bioprinting,听tissue engineering, drug delivery,听orthopedic听implants
Interests:听听Antibacterial biomaterials
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Martin SchmeingDept of Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Structural biology and in vitro biochemistry of AMR-relevant enzymes
Interests:听听Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis of antimicrobials, AMR-relevant enzymes
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Infectious diseases,听clinical microbiology, antimicrobial stewardship, global health
Interests:听 Local and global听antimicrobial stewardship,听antibiotic use and microbiome, education
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Therapeutics
Jesse ShapiroDept of听Microbiology & Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Evolutionary biology and genomics, computational and systems biology, pathogen evolution and interactions with microbiome
Interests:听听Evolution of AMR
Themes:听 听Surveillance and Prevention
Donald SheppardDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Mycology, fungal pathogenesis, biofilms, anti-fungal therapeutics听and diagnostics
Interests:听听Novel anti-biofilm therapy, fungal diagnostics
Themes:听 Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Ajitha ThanabalasuriarDept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Host-pathogen interactions, intra-vital microscopy, innate immunity, biofilms
Interests:听 Novel therapeutics
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Chris ThibodeauxDept of Chemisty (Faculty of Science)
Expertise: Structural and chemical biology, enzymology, mass spectrometry
Interests: Antimicrobial natural products, biofilms, drug discovery
Themes: Therapeutics
Paul J. ThomassinDept of听Agricultural Economics (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Agricultural and environmental economics, macroeconomics of food and agriculture policies, food safety
Interests:听听Economic burden of AMR, in the context of agriculture and food
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Nathalie TufenkjiDept of听Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:听听Water resource, particle-surface interactions, natural products, nanotechnology
Interests:听 Antimicrobial natural products and materials, antibiotic potentiators, biofilms
Themes:听 Therapeutics
School of Computer Science听(Faculty of Science)
Expertise: Machine learning/ AI, structural bioinformatics
Interests: Bacterial RNA structure and binding prediction, citizen science, computational drug discovery
Themes: Therapeutics
Karl WeissDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, infection control, clinical trials, epidemiology
Interests:听 Therapeutic clinical trials, infection control, AMR and stewardship in hospital settings
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Lyle G. WhyteDept of听Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Polar microbial ecology environmental microbiology and genomics, microbiome,
Interests:听听Bioprospecting of polar bacteria for novel antimicrobials
Themes:听 Therapeutics
Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)听
Expertise:听听Infectious and tropical diseases, global health, clinical microbiology,听diagnostics
Interests:听 Clinical diagnostics, vulnerable and indigenous populations, global health, AMR diagnostics at Summer institute
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Stephen YueDept Mining and Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:听听Metallurgical and materials characterization, alloy and metallic materials design and processing
Interests:听Anti-microbial coatings
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
Xin ZhaoDept of听Animal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听Environmental and animal health, microbiome, microbiology, host-microbe interactions
Interests:听听AMR transmission, antibiotic use and stewardship in farm animals.听 Microbiome,听Staph aureus in听milk and poultry
Themes:听 Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Affiliate members (non-不良研究所)
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Faculty of Science)
Expertise: Clinical Microbiology, Natural Product Chemistry, Laboratory Evolution, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Interests: Factors that determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the clinic and the natural environment, and in chemical ecology.
Themes: Therapeutics
Dept of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise: Medical microbiology, infectious diseases, AMR genomics, anthropology
Interests: One Health, microbiome, evolution of AMR, multi-drug resistant bacteria including Acinetobacter baumannii
Themes: Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
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