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  • Karine Auclair

    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 Bayen
    Stephane Bayen

    Dept 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 Behr
    Marcel Behr

    Dept 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 Berghuis
    Albert Berghuis

    Dept 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 Brukner
    Ivan Brukner

    Dept 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 Castagner
    Bastien Castagner

    Dept 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

  • profile of Jasmin ChahalJasmin 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 Cheng
    Matthew Cheng

    Dept 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 Copaescu
    Ana Copaescu

    Division 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 Cousineau
    Benoit Cousineau

    Dept 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 Faucher
    Sebastien Faucher

    Dept 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

  • Patricia Fontela

    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 Frenette
    Charles Frenette

    Dept 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 Frignon
    Dominic Frigon

    Dept ofÌýCivil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)

    Expertise:ÌýÌýEnvironmental microbiology, microbiome

    Interests:ÌýÌýSurveillance, diagnostics, modeling of environmental AMR microbiomes, wastewater

    Themes:ÌýÌýDiagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

  • Profile of Richard Gold
    Richard Gold

    Dept of Law (Faculty of Law)

    Expertise:ÌýÌýIntellectual property, market failure

    Interests:ÌýÌýOpen science innovation, drug discovery

    Themes:ÌýDiagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics

  • Andrew Gonzalez
    Andrew Gonzalez

    Dept 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 Gruenheid
    Samantha Gruenheid

    Dept 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

  • Profile of Shuaiqi Guo
    Shuaiqi Guo

    Dept 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 Hart
    Adam Hart

    Dept 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 Hebert
    Terry E. Hebert

    Dept 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

  • Profile of David Juncker

    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 Kassen
    Rees Kassen

    Dept 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

  • Dr. Arnold Kristof
    Arnold Kristof

    Dept 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 Langlais
    David Langlais

    Dept 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 Longtin
    Yves Longtin

    Dept 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 Loo
    Vivian Loo

    Dept 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 Lu
    Xiaonan Lu

    Dept 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

  • andreanne lupien

    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 Mahshid
    Sara Mahshid

    Dept 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

  • Corinne Maurice

    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

  • Profile of Maureen McKeague

    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

  • Profile of Joanna Merckx
    Joanna Merckx

    Dept 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 Moitessier
    Nicolas Moitessier

    Dept 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

  • Dr. Dao Nguyen
    Dao Nguyen

    Dept 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

  • Joaquin Ortega

    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

  • Pai Madhukar

    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

  • Jesse Papenburg

    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 Reed
    Michael Reed

    Dept 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

  • Rodrigo Reyes

    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 Ronholm
    Jennifer Ronholm

    Dept 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 Rosenzweig
    Derek Rosenzweig

    Dept of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Expertise:ÌýÌýBiomaterialÌýand bioprinting,Ìýtissue engineering, drug delivery,ÌýorthopedicÌýimplants

    Interests:ÌýÌýAntibacterial biomaterials

    Themes:Ìý Therapeutics

  • Martin Schmeing
    Martin Schmeing

    Dept 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

  • Makeda Semret

    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 Shapiro
    Jesse Shapiro

    Dept 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 Sheppard
    Donald Sheppard

    Dept 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 Thanabalasuriar
    Ajitha Thanabalasuriar

    Dept 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

  • Christopher Thibodeaux Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science
    Chris Thibodeaux

    Dept of Chemisty (Faculty of Science)

    Expertise: Structural and chemical biology, enzymology, mass spectrometry

    Interests: Antimicrobial natural products, biofilms, drug discovery

    Themes: Therapeutics

  • Paul Thomassin
    Paul J. Thomassin

    Dept 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 Tufenkji
    Nathalie Tufenkji

    Dept 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

  • Jerome Waldispuhl

    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 Weiss
    Karl Weiss

    Dept 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 Whyte
    Lyle G. Whyte

    Dept 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

  • Cedric Yansouni

    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 Yue
    Stephen Yue

    Dept 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

  • Profile of Natalie Zeytuni

    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 microbiology

    Interests:ÌýÌýOral pathogens, therapeutic strategies of resistance inÌýP. gingivalis,Ìý bacterial secretion systems, biofilms, drug target characterization and discovery

    Themes:Ìý Surveillance and Prevention

  • Xin Zhao
    Xin Zhao

    Dept 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)

  • Brandon Finlay Concordia University

    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

  • Profile of Louis-Patrick Haraoui

    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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