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Dept of Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:ÌýÌýSynthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, enzymology, biochemistry
Interests:ÌýÌýMechanisms and inhibitors of resistance,Ìýnew antimicrobials andÌýalternatives such asÌýbacterio-modulators
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Stephane BayenDept ofÌýFood Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýAnalytical chemistry, modeling, ecological & human health risk assessments
Interests:ÌýÌýAntibiotic contamination in food chain and natural environment
Themes: Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Marcel BehrDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:Ìý Infectious disease, microbiology (mycobacteria), molecular epidemiology, genomics, infection pathogenesis, BSL3 lab
Interests:Ìý Anti-mycobacterial drug discovery, diagnostics
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Therapeutics
Albert BerghuisDept ofÌý Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:Ìý Structural biology, computational biology, enzymology
Interests:ÌýÌýMechanisms of antibiotic resistance,Ìýdrug design, development of next-generation antibiotics
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Ivan BruknerDept of Clinical Microbiology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýClinical microbiology, molecular diagnostics, assay development and validation
Interests:ÌýÌýNucleic acid based molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, antibiotic susceptibility tests
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics
Bastien CastagnerDept ofÌýPharmacology & Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýDrug Discovery, chemical biology, carbohydrate chemistry, microbiome therapeutics
Interests:ÌýÌý°Õ³ó±ð°ù²¹±è±ð³Ü³Ù¾±³¦²õ for C. difficile, prebiotics and gut microbiome manipulation for infection prevention
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
- Jasmin Chahal
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýUndergraduate science education (including Tiny Earth), RNA biology and virology
Interests:ÌýÌýDiscovery of novel antibiotic producing soil bacteria through the Tiny Earth initiative
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Matthew ChengDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases, medical microbiology, clinical trials, infectious disease diagnostics
Interests:ÌýÌýAntimicrobial therapeutics clinical trials
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Ana CopaescuDivision of Allergy and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌý Drug and antibiotic allergy, immunology
Interests:ÌýÌý Drug allergy immune-mediated hypersensitivity reactions with an interest for antimicrobial stewardship
Themes:Ìý Surveillance
Benoit CousineauDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýMolecular-biologyÌýand geneticsÌýof gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria
Interests:ÌýÌýProduction ofÌýAMPÌýby probioticsÌýand activityÌýagainstÌývarious human pathogens
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Sebastien FaucherDept ofÌýNatural Resources Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýBacterial genetics, host-pathogen interactions in Salmonella Typhi, Legionella pneumophila
Interests:ÌýÌýBacterial Pathogens in non-clinical environments, novel antimicrobials
Themes:ÌýÌýSurveillance and Prevention
Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýCritical care medicine, epidemiology, outcomes research, infection control and surveillance
Interests:ÌýÌýHospital acquired AMR infection, antibiotic overuse, stewardship, surveillance in hospital setting
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Charles FrenetteDept ofÌýMedicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases, Infection Control
Interests:ÌýÌýAntibiotic stewardship, infection control and hospital-based AMR surveillance
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Dominic FrigonDept ofÌýCivil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEnvironmental microbiology, microbiome
Interests:ÌýÌýSurveillance, diagnostics, modeling of environmental AMR microbiomes, wastewater
Themes:ÌýÌýDiagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Richard GoldDept of Law (Faculty of Law)
Expertise:ÌýÌýIntellectual property, market failure
Interests:ÌýÌýOpen science innovation, drug discovery
Themes:ÌýDiagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics
Andrew GonzalezDept ofÌýBiology (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEcology, experimental evolution, biodiversity
Interests:ÌýÌýAMR evolution, experimental evolution under selection with antibiotics in ecologically complex environments
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Samantha GruenheidDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýbacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, mouse infection models
Interests:ÌýÌýEducation, undergraduate Tiny Earth project for antimicrobial discovery
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Shuaiqi GuoDept of Anatomy and Cell Biology (School of Biomedical Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýStructural biology, cryo- electron tomography and subtomogram averaging, molecular modelling
Interests:ÌýÌýMolecular mechanism of bacterial adhesion, secretion systems and pathogenesis including Vibrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Themes:Ìý°Õ³ó±ð°ù²¹±è±ð³Ü³Ù¾±³¦²õ, Surveillance and Prevention
Adam HartDept ofÌýSurgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýOrthopedic surgery, prosthetic joint infections, animal infection models
Interests:ÌýÌýNovel approaches and biomaterials for the prevention of post-operative infections
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Terry E. HebertDept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýG-protein coupled receptors and signaling, pharmacology, drug discovery
Interests:ÌýÌýCell signaling mechanisms, drug discovery, AMR, science education
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Dept of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýMicro and nano bioengineering technologies, Lab-on-a-chip and Microfluidics
Interests:ÌýÌýMicrofluidics, multiplexed diagnostic technologies
Themes:ÌýDiagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics
Rees KassenDept of Biology (Faculty of Sciences)
Expertise:Ìý Evolutionary ecology, genetics of microbes, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas microbiology
Interests:Ìý Evolution and spread of resistance, evolutionary repeatability of resistance targets, microbial diversification
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Arnold KristofDept of Experimental Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Host Immunity
Interests:ÌýÌýNutrition and Metabolism, Pneumonia, Nosocomial Infections
Themes:ÌýDiagnostics and Therapeutics
David LanglaisDept of Human Genetics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýFunctional and single-cell genomics, bioinformatics, genome editing, molecular biology, immunology, inflammation, and infectious diseases
Interests:ÌýÌýMechanisms of host defenses against infections, novel therapeutic targets to treat inflammatory diseases and to circumvent antimicrobial resistance
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Yves LongtinDept ofÌýMedicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýClinical research, infection prevention and control and transmission dynamics in the healthcare setting.
Interests:ÌýÌýResearch interest in infection prevention and control and AMR.
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Vivian LooDept ofÌýMedicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases, infection control, epidemiology, C. diff infection
Interests:ÌýÌýInfection transmission and control
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Xiaonan LuDept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýMicrobiology, Campylobacter, microbial ecology and physiology, food synthetic biology, biosensor and biophotonic technologies
Interests:ÌýÌýFood microbiology and safety, innovative technologies for food safety and AMR, AMR evolution, pathogenesis of agri-food and public health pathogens
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Science)
Expertise:ÌýÌýBacteriology in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and drug development
Interests:ÌýÌýAnti-mycobacterial resistance and drug discovery
Themes:ÌýÌý°Õ³ó±ð°ù²¹±è±ð³Ü³Ù¾±³¦²õ
Sara MahshidDept of Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:ÌýÌýNanotechnology, biosensors, Lab-on-chip
Ìý±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù±ð²õ³Ù²õ:ÌýNano-surfaceÌýfluidic device for phenotypic profiling of antibiotic susceptibility, Point-of-care diagnostic technologies
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌý²Ñ¾±³¦°ù´Ç²ú¾±´Ç³¾±ð
Interests:ÌýÌýbacteriophages, gut microbiota, microbial interactions
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics, Surveillance and Prevention
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Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Chemistry(Faculty of Science)
Expertise:ÌýÌýNucleic acid-based biosensors and therapeutics
Interests:ÌýÌýBacterial riboswitches and inhibitors
Themes:Ìý°Õ³ó±ð°ù²¹±è±ð³Ü³Ù¾±³¦²õ
Joanna MerckxDept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýDiagnostic methods for surveillance, infectious disease and social epidemiology
Interests:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases and AMR epidemiology, public and global health
Themes:ÌýDiagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
Nicolas MoitessierDept ofÌýChemistry (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:ÌýComputational and medicinal chemistry, in silico drug screening and prediction (drug binding and catalyst design)
Interests:ÌýÌýAntimicrobial drug discovery
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Dao NguyenDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýBacterial genetics, Gram negative,Ìýbiofilms, Pseudomonas microbiology, pathogenesis and animal infection models, respiratory medicine, translational research
Interests:ÌýÌýAntibacterial mode-of-action,Ìýmechanism of resistance,Ìýnovel antibacterial, adjuvants and biomaterials
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Therapeutics
Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýStructural biology, cryo-electron microscopy
Interests:Ìý Antibiotic targets and drug discovery, bacterial ribosome biogenesis
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Dept ofÌýEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEpidemiology, TB, global health,Ìýdiagnostics,Ìýimplementation
Interests:ÌýÌýDrug resistantÌýTB, antibioticÌýuse in India
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEpidemiology, diagnostics, infectious diseases, respiratory viruses
Interests:ÌýÌýInfectious disease diagnostics, biomarkers and microbiome
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Michael ReedDept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:Ìý Bacteriology, molecular microbiology, mycobacterial genetics, BSL3 pathogen research
Interests:Ìý Mechanisms of resistance, MDR (M. tuberculosis)
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Dept of Biology (Faculty of Science)
Expertise:ÌýÌýFluorescence microscopy, Genome integrity, Cell biology of bacteria
Interests:ÌýÌýMechanisms of antibiotic resistance in a cellular context, antibiotic targets in DNA duplication enzymes
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Jennifer RonholmDept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:Ìý One Health, food and environmental microbiology, microbiome, microbial genomics
Interests:ÌýÌýAnimal microbiome ,ÌýAMR transmission, One Health, antibiotic use in agriculture, food safety
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Derek RosenzweigDept of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýBiomaterialÌýand bioprinting,Ìýtissue engineering, drug delivery,ÌýorthopedicÌýimplants
Interests:ÌýÌýAntibacterial biomaterials
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Martin SchmeingDept of Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýStructural biology and in vitro biochemistry of AMR-relevant enzymes
Interests:ÌýÌýNon-ribosomal peptide synthesis of antimicrobials, AMR-relevant enzymes
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases,Ìýclinical microbiology, antimicrobial stewardship, global health
Interests:Ìý Local and globalÌýantimicrobial stewardship,Ìýantibiotic use and microbiome, education
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Therapeutics
Jesse ShapiroDept ofÌýMicrobiology & Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEvolutionary biology and genomics, computational and systems biology, pathogen evolution and interactions with microbiome
Interests:ÌýÌýEvolution of AMR
Themes:Ìý ÌýSurveillance and Prevention
Donald SheppardDept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýMycology, fungal pathogenesis, biofilms, anti-fungal therapeuticsÌýand diagnostics
Interests:ÌýÌýNovel anti-biofilm therapy, fungal diagnostics
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Ajitha ThanabalasuriarDept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýHost-pathogen interactions, intra-vital microscopy, innate immunity, biofilms
Interests:Ìý Novel therapeutics
Themes:Ìý 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 ofÌýAgricultural Economics (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýAgricultural and environmental economics, macroeconomics of food and agriculture policies, food safety
Interests:ÌýÌýEconomic burden of AMR, in the context of agriculture and food
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Nathalie TufenkjiDept ofÌýChemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:ÌýÌýWater resource, particle-surface interactions, natural products, nanotechnology
Interests:Ìý Antimicrobial natural products and materials, antibiotic potentiators, biofilms
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
School of Computer ScienceÌý(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:ÌýÌýInfectious diseases, clinical microbiology, infection control, clinical trials, epidemiology
Interests:Ìý Therapeutic clinical trials, infection control, AMR and stewardship in hospital settings
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Lyle G. WhyteDept ofÌýNatural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýPolar microbial ecology environmental microbiology and genomics, microbiome,
Interests:ÌýÌýBioprospecting of polar bacteria for novel antimicrobials
Themes:Ìý Therapeutics
Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)Ìý
Expertise:ÌýÌýInfectious and tropical diseases, global health, clinical microbiology,Ìýdiagnostics
Interests:Ìý Clinical diagnostics, vulnerable and indigenous populations, global health, AMR diagnostics at Summer institute
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention
Stephen YueDept Mining and Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Expertise:ÌýÌýMetallurgical and materials characterization, alloy and metallic materials design and processing
Interests:ÌýAnti-microbial coatings
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Dept ofÌýAnatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýStructural biology using techniques cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography,
X-ray crystallography,Ìý
molecular modelling, molecular biology and P. gingivalis microbiologyInterests:ÌýÌýOral pathogens, therapeutic strategies of resistance inÌýP. gingivalis,Ìý bacterial secretion systems, biofilms, drug target characterization and discovery
Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention
Xin ZhaoDept ofÌýAnimal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:ÌýÌýEnvironmental and animal health, microbiome, microbiology, host-microbe interactions
Interests:ÌýÌýAMR transmission, antibiotic use and stewardship in farm animals.Ìý Microbiome,ÌýStaph aureus inÌýmilk and poultry
Themes:Ìý Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics
Affiliate members (non-ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ)
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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