See list of memberships by research theme
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
Dept of听Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Epidemiology, vaccinology, clinical research, population-based research, disease transmission
Interests:听听Infectious disease prevention and control; Evaluating the impact of vaccines
Themes:听 Surveillance and Prevention
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
Dept 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 ChahalDept 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
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
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
Ashraf A. Ismail
Dept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Expertise:听听FTIR spectroscopy, microbial diagnostics, protein structure function
Interests:听听Food microbiology and safety
Themes:听Surveillance and Prevention
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
Dept of听Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Applications of discovery and targeted proteomics to bacteria pathogens
Interests:听听Resistance and virulence factors of lethal bacterial pathogens and role of post-translational modifications in the regulation of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance
Themes:听 Therapeutics &听Diagnostics
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
Dept 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
Dept 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
Belinda NicolauFaculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Expertise:听Oral Epidemiology, Life Course Approach to Oral Health
Interests:听Population Oral Health, aetiology of chronic oral diseases, antimicrobial stewardship in dental education
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
Dept 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
Dept of听Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Expertise:听听Structural biology using techniques cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography,
X-ray crystallography,听
molecular modelling, molecular biology and P. gingivalis microbiologyInterests:听听Oral pathogens, therapeutic strategies of resistance in听P. gingivalis,听 bacterial secretion systems, biofilms, drug target characterization and discovery
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-黑料网爆吃瓜)
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
Dept of Physics (Faculty of Arts and Science)
Expertise: Computational modeling, machine learning, molecular dynamics simulations, deep learning, active learning, coarse-grained molecular dynamics, multi-scale modelling
Interests: Antimicrobial peptide design, RNA-targeting drugs
Themes: Therapeutics
In Memoriam
Charles Frenette (1960-2025)听
Dept of MedicineIn memory of AMR Centre member Dr Charles Frenette MD,听a clinician, educator, administrator, and leader for nearly two decades听at the MUHC.听
"We are all indebted to him for his leadership during COVID-19, but many remember him for his ongoing efforts before and after COVID-19 to make the hospital a better place to heal and a better place to work."听
听 听 听 听 听~Dr Marcel Behr
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