17 February 2024
<p>Precious Osadebamwen has just started in the lab on an exciting project about automating triage of AMR results
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26 January 2023
<p>The impressive Demeter Lockyer just published her honour’s thesis in Terrorism and Political Violence. This paper analyses online posts to discuss how incel’s position their violence as ideological terrorism.
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8 January 2024
<p>The Canadian Review of Sociology has just published our paper with Mike Halpin investigating how online incel communities use the perpretaor of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre Lépine to further justify violence against women
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12 December 2023
<p>Our latest PHA4GE Data Structures paper describing the Pathogen Data Object Model (led by Ruth Timme was published in Microbial Genomics.
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17 November 2023
<p>Our collaboration with Mubareka and Doxey groups (among many others!) genomically and transcriptomically characterising deer immune response to delta spillover was published in iScience
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12 November 2023
<p>Taught a MicroResearch clinical epidemiology research capacity building workshop at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana.
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7 November 2023
<p>Fin Maguire was awarded the 2023 President’s Research Excellence Award for an Emerging Investigator at the Dalhousie Legacy Awards 2023.
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30 October 2023
<p>Ran the first PHA4GE Conference on the Cavalli Estate, Cape Town, South Africa (Steering Committee/Scientific Program).
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15 October 2023
<p>MicroBinfie podcast interview of Finlay Maguire from GMI13
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26 September 2023
<p>Work led by Kuganya Nirmalarajah at Sunnybrook identifying limited additional antiviral resistance mutations in patients with shortened remdesivir courses was published in Influenze and Other Respiratory Viruses
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30 July 2023
<p>Fin Maguire was announcted as a Finalist for the 2023 Discovery Awards in the category of Emerging Professional.
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12 June 2023
<p>Dr. Halpin and Dr. Maguire wrote an op-ed for the conversation (syndicated to other news sites such as phys.org) on radicalisation and misogyny in the incel community.
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9 June 2023
<p>We were interviewed by Melissa Healy for an article in the LA Times on the impact of animal reservoirs on the future of the pandemic.
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01 June 2023
<p>With Dr. Halpin and our collaborators in sociology we published a large scale analysis of social media posting and misogyny amongst incel men in New Media and Society
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18 April 2023
<p>We jointly ran a Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops on Infectious Disease Genomic Epidemiology: all the materials are open and can be found here
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5 April 2023
<p>Gave a lecture on genomic epidemiology to the graduate Infectious Disease Epidemiology class (CHE6052)
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30 March 2023
<p>Our lab had 5 pieces of co-authored work presented at AMMI/CACMID ranging from finding novel viruses in bats to genomically-informed investigation of mobile AMR genes
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2 March 2023
<p>Released another PHA4GE pre-print developing quality control tags for public health sequencing datasets
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13 January 2023
<p>Lecture on epidemiological study design (and statistical methods) as part of a MicroResearch workshop taught at Meru University of Science & Technology in Kenya
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30 December 2022
<p>Katherine Chan’s work (led by Dr. Jason Moffat) on using CRISPR to screen SARS-CoV-2 host factors was published in Heliyon
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8 December 2022
<p>A pre-print led by Dr. Jocelyn Stairs evaluating the success of a ob/gyn clinic for refugee women in Halifax was released on ResearchSquare
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29 November 2022
<p>A paper author with Dr. Mike Halpin and other sociology colleagues on the large scale analysis of misogynistic language use on an incel forum was released as a pre-print in SocaRXiv
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28 November 2022
<p>Our work on reverse zooanthroponsis of COVID-19 from deer has been featured in an episode of This Week in Virology
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10 November 2022
<p>Co-first authored manuscript on the detection and chracterisation of divegent COVID-19 in white-tailed deer with spillback into humans was published in Nature Microbiology.
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9 November 2022
<p>Paper with Jocelyn Stairs and colleagues on urinary incontinence in women who haven’t given birth was published in Urogynecology
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22 October 2022
<p>Work investigating the changing tropism/viral load of Omicron lineages was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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20 October 2022
<p>The CARD 2023 paper has been published in Nucleic Acids Research highlighting the on-going development of this key antimicrobial resistance gene database
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3 October 2022
<p>New pre-print released led by Dem Lockyear (as part of on-going collaboration with Dr. Mike Halpin) on the way in which a specific incel forum discuss/celebrate the mass killer Marc Lépine
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1 September 2022
<p>Appointment as vice-chair of the PHA4GE Data Structures Working Group and member of the steering committee
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15 August 2022
<p>Invited to Africa CDC’s Pathogenomics Initiative AMR Focus Group meeting to talk about work on hAMRonization.
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3 August 2022
<p>Interviewed in JAMA with collaborators about SARS-CoV animal reservoirs
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20 June 2022
<p>Completion of first offering of our new ‘Applied Research in Health Data Science’ graduate course
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18 June 2022
<p>Work generating benchmarking datasets at the PHA4GE/JPI-AMR/MRC-CLIMB hackathon in 2021 was published in Nature Scientific Data
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16 June 2022
<p>Our group was awarded 2 SSHRC Insight Development Grants (details to follow after embargo is lifted)
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10 June 2022
<p>Collaborative work led by Arinjay Banerjee looking at neutralisation across SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern has been published in Cell med
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25 May 2022
<p>Jee-in Kim’s review on machine learning based antimicrobial resistance phenotype prediction was published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews
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20 May 2022
<p>A case report led by Dr. Alice Zhabokritsky characterising a chronic COVID-19 infection associated with HIV was published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
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7 March 2022
<p>The SARS-CoV-2 deer research was featured in a joint WHO/FAO/OIE statement on the importance of wildlife surveillance during the pandemic.
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26 February 2022
<p>Our pre-print identifying a new and very divergent SARS-CoV-2 virus in deer with a possible deer-to-human transmission was released (summarised here)
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16 February 2022
<p>The PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 metadata spec that we developed (and is used by INSDC databases) was published in GigaScience
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01 January 2022
<p>Our research group at Dalhousie officially started jointly in Epidemiology and Computer Science
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08 December 2021
<p>Invited presentation of the lab’s work on AMR metagenomics at the Seq4AMR grop meeting.
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01 December 2021
<p>Some of work on radicalisation of incels was written about in the university newspaper
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28 November 2021
<p>Our public health work during the COVID-19 pandemic paper has been featured in an article in the Globle & Mail Newspaper.
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24 November 2021
<p>Dr. Peter C Jentsch has started a joint postdoctoral position with us and Samira Mubareka to investigate how well different public health interventions control SARS-CoV-2 variant dynamics in vulnerable populations.
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