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Name |
Expertise |
Interests |
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Auclair, Karine |
Synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, enzymology, biochemistry |
Mechanisms and inhibitors of resistance, new antimicrobials and alternatives such as bacterio-modulators |
Behr, Marcel |
Infectious disease, microbiology (mycobacteria), molecular epidemiology, genomics, infection pathogenesis, BSL3 lab |
Anti-mycobacterial drug discovery, diagnostics |
Berghuis, Albert |
Structural biology, computational biology, enzymology |
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, drug design, development of next-generation antibiotics |
Castagner, Bastien |
Drug Discovery, chemical biology, carbohydrate chemistry, microbiome therapeutics |
Therapeutics for C. difficile, prebiotics and gut microbiome manipulation for infection prevention |
Chahal, Jasmine |
Undergraduate science education (including Tiny Earth), RNA biology and virology |
Discovery of novel antibiotic producing soil bacteria through the Tiny Earth initiative |
Cheng, Matthew |
Infectious diseases, medical microbiology, clinical trials, infectious disease diagnostics |
Antimicrobial therapeutics clinical trials |
Cousineau, Benoit |
Molecular-biology and genetics of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria |
Production of AMP by probiotics and activity against various human pathogens |
Findlay, Brandon |
Clinical Microbiology, Natural Product Chemistry, Laboratory Evolution, Biophysics and Molecular Biology |
Factors that determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the clinic and the natural environment, and in chemical ecology. |
Gold, Richard |
Intellectual property, market failure |
Open science innovation, drug discovery |
Gruenheid, Samantha |
Bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, mouse infection models |
Education, undergraduate Tiny Earth project for antimicrobial discovery |
Guo, Shuaiqi |
Structural biology, cryo- electron tomography and subtomogram averaging, molecular modelling |
Molecular mechanism of bacterial adhesion, secretion systems and pathogenesis including聽Vibrio cholerae听补苍诲听Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Hart, Adam |
Orthopedic surgery, prosthetic joint infections, animal infection models |
Novel approaches and biomaterials for the prevention of post-operative infections |
Hebert Terry |
G-protein coupled receptors and signaling, pharmacology, drug discovery |
Cell signaling mechanisms, drug discovery, AMR, science education |
Juncker, David |
Micro and nano bioengineering technologies, Lab-on-a-chip and Microfluidics |
Microfluidics, multiplexed diagnostic technologies |
Kristof, Arnold |
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Host Immunity |
Nutrition and Metabolism, Pneumonia, Nosocomial Infections |
Langlais, David |
Functional and single-cell genomics, bioinformatics, genome editing, molecular biology, immunology, inflammation, and infectious diseases |
Mechanisms of host defenses against infections, novel therapeutic targets to treat inflammatory diseases and to circumvent antimicrobial resistance |
Lupien, Andreanne |
Bacteriology in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and drug development |
Anti-mycobacterial resistance and drug discovery |
Maurice, Corinne |
Microbiome |
Bacteriophages, gut microbiota, microbial interactions |
McKeague, Maureen |
Nucleic acid-based biosensors and therapeutics |
Bacterial riboswitches and inhibitors |
Moitessier, Nicolas |
Computational and medicinal chemistry, in silico drug screening and prediction (drug binding and catalyst design) |
Antimicrobial drug discovery |
Nguyen, Dao |
Bacterial genetics, Gram negative, biofilms, Pseudomonas microbiology, pathogenesis and animal infection models, respiratory medicine, translational research |
Antibacterial mode-of-action, mechanism of resistance, novel antibacterial, adjuvants and biomaterials |
Ortega, Joaquin |
Structural biology, cryo-electron microscopy |
Antibiotic targets and drug discovery, bacterial ribosome biogenesis |
Reed, Michael |
Bacteriology, molecular microbiology, mycobacterial genetics, BSL3 pathogen research |
Mechanisms of resistance, MDR (M. tuberculosis) |
Reyes, Rodrigo |
Fluorescence microscopy, Genome integrity, Cell biology of bacteria |
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in a cellular context, antibiotic targets in DNA duplication enzymes |
Ronholm, Jennifer |
One Health, food and environmental microbiology, microbiome, microbial genomics |
Animal microbiome , AMR transmission, One Health, antibiotic use in agriculture, food safety |
Rosenzweig, Derek |
Biomaterial and bioprinting, tissue engineering, drug delivery, orthopedic implants |
Antibacterial biomaterials |
Schmeing, Martin |
Structural biology and in vitro biochemistry of AMR-relevant enzymes |
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis of antimicrobials, AMR-relevant enzymes |
Semret, Makeda |
Infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, antimicrobial stewardship, global health |
Local and global antimicrobial stewardship, antibiotic use and microbiome, education |
Sheppard, Donald |
Mycology, fungal pathogenesis, biofilms, anti-fungal therapeutics and diagnostics |
Novel anti-biofilm therapy, fungal diagnostics |
Thanabalasuriar, Ajitha |
Host-pathogen interactions, intra-vital microscopy, innate immunity, biofilms |
Novel therapeutics |
Thibodeaux, Chris |
Structural and chemical biology, enzymology, mass spectrometry |
Antimicrobial natural products, biofilms, drug discovery |
Thomassin, Paul |
Agricultural and environmental economics, macroeconomics of food and agriculture policies, food safety |
Economic burden of AMR, in the context of agriculture and food |
Tufenkji, Nathalie |
Water resource, particle-surface interactions, natural products, nanotechnology |
Antimicrobial natural products and materials, antibiotic potentiators, biofilms |
Waldispuhl, Jerome |
Machine learning/ AI, structural bioinformatics |
Bacterial RNA structure and binding prediction, citizen science, computational drug discovery |
Whyte, Lyle |
Polar microbial ecology environmental microbiology and genomics, microbiome, |
Bioprospecting of polar bacteria for novel antimicrobials |
Zhao, Xin |
Environmental and animal health, microbiome, microbiology, host-microbe interactions |
AMR transmission, antibiotic use and stewardship in farm animals. Microbiome, Staph aureus in milk and poultry |