• 
  Karine Auclair

  Dept of Chemistry (Faculty of Science)

  Expertise:  Synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, enzymology, biochemistry

  Interests:  Mechanisms and inhibitors of resistance, new antimicrobials and alternatives such as bacterio-modulators

  Themes:  Therapeutics

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  Enis Baris

  School of Population and Global Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Global health and healthcare policy, health system governance and evaluation, strategic and managerial corporate leadership

  Interests:  Economic and public health policy for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and AMR

  Themes:  Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics

• 
  Stephane Bayen

  Dept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Analytical chemistry, modeling, ecological & human health risk assessments

  Interests:  Antibiotic contamination in food chain and natural environment

  Themes: Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Marcel Behr

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious disease, microbiology (mycobacteria), molecular epidemiology, genomics, infection pathogenesis, BSL3 lab

  Interests:  Anti-mycobacterial drug discovery, diagnostics

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Therapeutics

• 
  Albert Berghuis

  Dept of  Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Structural biology, computational biology, enzymology

  Interests:  Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, drug design, development of next-generation antibiotics

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Ivan Brukner

  Dept of Clinical Microbiology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Clinical microbiology, molecular diagnostics, assay development and validation

  Interests:  Nucleic acid based molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, antibiotic susceptibility tests

  Themes:  Diagnostics

• 
  Bastien Castagner

  Dept of Pharmacology & Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Drug Discovery, chemical biology, carbohydrate chemistry, microbiome therapeutics

  Interests:  Therapeutics for C. difficile, prebiotics and gut microbiome manipulation for infection prevention

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• Jasmin Chahal

  Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Undergraduate science education (including Tiny Earth), RNA biology and virology

  Interests:  Discovery of novel antibiotic producing soil bacteria through the Tiny Earth initiative

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Matthew Cheng

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious diseases, medical microbiology, clinical trials, infectious disease diagnostics

  Interests:  Antimicrobial therapeutics clinical trials

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Ana Copaescu

  Division of Allergy and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:   Drug and antibiotic allergy, immunology

  Interests:   Drug allergy immune-mediated hypersensitivity reactions with an interest for antimicrobial stewardship

  Themes:  Surveillance

• 
  Benoit Cousineau

  Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Molecular-biology and genetics of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria

  Interests:  Production of AMP by probiotics and activity against various human pathogens

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Sebastien Faucher

  Dept of Natural Resources Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Bacterial genetics, host-pathogen interactions in Salmonella Typhi, Legionella pneumophila

  Interests:  Bacterial Pathogens in non-clinical environments, novel antimicrobials

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Patricia Fontela

  Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Critical care medicine, epidemiology, outcomes research, infection control and surveillance

  Interests:  Hospital acquired AMR infection, antibiotic overuse, stewardship, surveillance in hospital setting

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Charles Frenette

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious diseases, Infection Control

  Interests:  Antibiotic stewardship, infection control and hospital-based AMR surveillance

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Dominic Frigon

  Dept of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)

  Expertise:  Environmental microbiology, microbiome

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

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Richard Gold

  Dept of Law (Faculty of Law)

  Expertise:  Intellectual property, market failure

  Interests:  Open science innovation, drug discovery

  Themes: Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics

• 
  Andrew Gonzalez

  Dept of Biology (Faculty of Science)

  Expertise:  Ecology, experimental evolution, biodiversity

  Interests:  AMR evolution, experimental evolution under selection with antibiotics in ecologically complex environments

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Samantha Gruenheid

  Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, mouse infection models

  Interests:  Education, undergraduate Tiny Earth project for antimicrobial discovery

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Adam Hart

  Dept of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Orthopedic surgery, prosthetic joint infections, animal infection models

  Interests:  Novel approaches and biomaterials for the prevention of post-operative infections

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Terry E. Hebert

  Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  G-protein coupled receptors and signaling, pharmacology, drug discovery

  Interests:  Cell signaling mechanisms, drug discovery, AMR, science education

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  David Juncker

  Dept of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Micro and nano bioengineering technologies, Lab-on-a-chip and Microfluidics

  Interests:  Microfluidics, multiplexed diagnostic technologies

  Themes: Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention, Therapeutics

• 
  Rees Kassen

  Dept of Biology (Faculty of Sciences)

  Expertise:  Evolutionary ecology, genetics of microbes, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas microbiology

  Interests:  Evolution and spread of resistance, evolutionary repeatability of resistance targets, microbial diversification

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Arnold Kristof

  Dept of Experimental Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Host Immunity

  Interests:  Nutrition and Metabolism, Pneumonia, Nosocomial Infections

  Themes: Diagnostics and Therapeutics

• 
  David Langlais

  Dept of Human Genetics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Functional and single-cell genomics, bioinformatics, genome editing, molecular biology, immunology, inflammation, and infectious diseases

  Interests:  Mechanisms of host defenses against infections, novel therapeutic targets to treat inflammatory diseases and to circumvent antimicrobial resistance

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Yves Longtin

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Clinical research, infection prevention and control and transmission dynamics in the healthcare setting.

  Interests:  Research interest in infection prevention and control and AMR.

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Vivian Loo

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious diseases, infection control, epidemiology, C. diff infection

  Interests:  Infection transmission and control

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Xiaonan Lu

  Dept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Microbiology, Campylobacter, microbial ecology and physiology, food synthetic biology, biosensor and biophotonic technologies

  Interests:  Food microbiology and safety, innovative technologies for food safety and AMR, AMR evolution, pathogenesis of agri-food and public health pathogens

  Themes:  Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Andréanne Lupien

  Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Science)

  Expertise:  Bacteriology in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and drug development

  Interests:  Anti-mycobacterial resistance and drug discovery

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Sara Mahshid

  Dept of Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)

  Expertise:  Nanotechnology, biosensors, Lab-on-chip

   Interests: Nano-surface fluidic device for phenotypic profiling of antibiotic susceptibility, Point-of-care diagnostic technologies

  Themes:  Diagnostics

• 
  Corinne Maurice

  Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Microbiome

  Interests:  bacteriophages, gut microbiota, microbial interactions

  Themes:  Therapeutics, Surveillance and Prevention

• Maureen McKeague

  Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Chemistry(Faculty of Science)

  Expertise:  Nucleic acid-based biosensors and therapeutics

  Interests:  Bacterial riboswitches and inhibitors

  Themes: Therapeutics

• 
  Joanna Merckx

  Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Diagnostic methods for surveillance, infectious disease and social epidemiology

  Interests:  Infectious diseases and AMR epidemiology, public and global health

  Themes: Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Nicolas Moitessier

  Dept of Chemistry (Faculty of Science)

  Expertise: Computational and medicinal chemistry, in silico drug screening and prediction (drug binding and catalyst design)

  Interests:  Antimicrobial drug discovery

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Dao Nguyen

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Bacterial genetics, Gram negative, biofilms, Pseudomonas microbiology, pathogenesis and animal infection models, respiratory medicine, translational research

  Interests:  Antibacterial mode-of-action, mechanism of resistance, novel antibacterial, adjuvants and biomaterials

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Therapeutics

• 
  Joaquin Ortega

  Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Structural biology, cryo-electron microscopy

  Interests:  Antibiotic targets and drug discovery, bacterial ribosome biogenesis

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Madhukar Pai

  Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Epidemiology, TB, global health, diagnostics, implementation

  Interests:  Drug resistant TB, antibiotic use in India

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Jesse Papenburg

  Dept of Pediatric (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Epidemiology, diagnostics, infectious diseases, respiratory viruses

  Interests:  Infectious disease diagnostics, biomarkers and microbiome

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Michael Reed

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Bacteriology, molecular microbiology, mycobacterial genetics, BSL3 pathogen research

  Interests:  Mechanisms of resistance, MDR (M. tuberculosis)

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics

• 
  Rodrigo Reyes

  Dept of Biology (Faculty of Science)

  Expertise:  Fluorescence microscopy, Genome integrity, Cell biology of bacteria

  Interests:  Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in a cellular context, antibiotic targets in DNA duplication enzymes

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Jennifer Ronholm

  Dept of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  One Health, food and environmental microbiology, microbiome, microbial genomics

  Interests:  Animal microbiome , AMR transmission, One Health, antibiotic use in agriculture, food safety

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics

• 
  Derek Rosenzweig

  Dept of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Biomaterial and bioprinting, tissue engineering, drug delivery, orthopedic implants

  Interests:  Antibacterial biomaterials

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Martin Schmeing

  Dept of Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Structural biology and in vitro biochemistry of AMR-relevant enzymes

  Interests:  Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis of antimicrobials, AMR-relevant enzymes

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Makeda Semret

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, antimicrobial stewardship, global health

  Interests:  Local and global antimicrobial stewardship, antibiotic use and microbiome, education

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Therapeutics

• 
  Jesse Shapiro

  Dept of Microbiology & Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Evolutionary biology and genomics, computational and systems biology, pathogen evolution and interactions with microbiome

  Interests:  Evolution of AMR

  Themes:   Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Donald Sheppard

  Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Mycology, fungal pathogenesis, biofilms, anti-fungal therapeutics and diagnostics

  Interests:  Novel anti-biofilm therapy, fungal diagnostics

  Themes:  Diagnostics and Therapeutics

• 
  Ajitha Thanabalasuriar

  Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Host-pathogen interactions, intra-vital microscopy, innate immunity, biofilms

  Interests:  Novel therapeutics

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  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 J. Thomassin

  Dept of Agricultural Economics (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Agricultural and environmental economics, macroeconomics of food and agriculture policies, food safety

  Interests:  Economic burden of AMR, in the context of agriculture and food

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics

• 
  Nathalie Tufenkji

  Dept of Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)

  Expertise:  Water resource, particle-surface interactions, natural products, nanotechnology

  Interests:  Antimicrobial natural products and materials, antibiotic potentiators, biofilms

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Jerome Waldispuhl

  School of Computer Science

  Expertise: Machine learning/ AI, structural bioinformatics

  Interests: Bacterial RNA structure and binding prediction, citizen science, computational drug discovery

  Themes: Therapeutics

• 
  Karl Weiss

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Expertise:  Infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, infection control, clinical trials, epidemiology

  Interests:  Therapeutic clinical trials, infection control, AMR and stewardship in hospital settings

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Lyle G. Whyte

  Dept of Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Polar microbial ecology environmental microbiology and genomics, microbiome,

  Interests:  Bioprospecting of polar bacteria for novel antimicrobials

  Themes:  Therapeutics

• 
  Cedric Yansouni

  Dept of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) 

  Expertise:  Infectious and tropical diseases, global health, clinical microbiology, diagnostics

  Interests:  Clinical diagnostics, vulnerable and indigenous populations, global health, AMR diagnostics at Summer institute

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Stephen Yue

  Dept Mining and Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)

  Expertise:  Metallurgical and materials characterization, alloy and metallic materials design and processing

  Interests: Anti-microbial coatings

  Themes:  Surveillance and Prevention

• 
  Xin Zhao

  Dept of Animal Science (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

  Expertise:  Environmental and animal health, microbiome, microbiology, host-microbe interactions

  Interests:  AMR transmission, antibiotic use and stewardship in farm animals.  Microbiome, Staph aureus in milk and poultry

  Themes:  Diagnostics & Surveillance and Prevention & Therapeutics

Affiliate members (non-McGill)

• 
  Brandon Findlay

   

  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