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As we kick off 2025, Jon Stokes has made the The New York Times 2024 Good Tech Awards list for his generative AI model to design new antibiotics from scratch. McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences McMaster IIDR nytimes.com/2024/12/30/tec…

Great national news story from the lab of Dr. Cameron Currie McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences and McMaster IIDR Superbugs are on the rise — could ants be our secret weapon? | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/10936656/…

Overcoming resistance: McMaster University researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in some of the world’s most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria: zinc—or a lack thereof. 👇 ow.ly/KnE450UAsg4

Health Care Predictions for 2025: A Canadian will lead the fight against antibiotic resistance. Jon Stokes, assistant professor McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, places at the top of Maclean’s Magazine 10 health care predictions for the year. 👇 ow.ly/wiOq50UAsOU

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Discovery of new fungal compound leads to potential breakthrough for brain health. thespec.com/news/hamilton-… via @thespec

Unusual Phospholipids from Morganella morganii Linked to Depression pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

McMaster researchers develop a new, publicly accessible machine learning algorithm to help scientists find new antibiotics. McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences McMaster IIDR healthsci.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-resea…

This is an exciting development in the Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University - the formal establishment of the Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine, to be led by Dr. Sonia Anand. healthsci.mcmaster.ca/new-mary-heers…

I had the privilege of meeting and collaborating with Julian during my postdoc at UBC. We developed a clever little assay using blue/white screening to test how different small molecules influenced Salmonella gene expression. A brilliant scientist and an absolute legend!

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Huge congratulations to Mann Parikh from the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization undergraduate program on winning the 2025 Canadian Innovation Exchange Startup Award in medtech! McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences healthsci.mcmaster.ca/the-clinic-res…

The danger of bird flu mixing with human flu? A potential pandemic. Matthew Miller (Miller Lab), director McMaster IIDR and Global Nexus, spoke with Globalnews.ca about influenza—what happens if two influenza viruses mix and why it's so dangerous. ow.ly/CacT50V2Ynp

Huge congratulations to McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences faculty members Dr. Katie Houlahan and Dr. John Whitney, and joint member Dr. Greg Steinberg, on their Canada Research Chair awards!

Today the Farncombe Institute hosted Megan Zangara Megan Zangara, PhD from Dr. Brian Coombes, PhD Lab for our weekly noon rounds. Her wonderful talk about the consequences of acute stress in mucosal barrier led to great discussions. Looking forward to seeing this work published!

New lasso-shaped antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria nature.com/articles/d4158…

Huge congratulations to McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences 's own Dr. Caitlin Mullarkey for winning the 2025 McMaster Students Union Teaching Award! Three-peat for this rockstar. dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/heart…

⁦awesome Q&A with ⁦Jon Stokes⁩ on the power of AI to drive antibiotic drug discovery. ⁦McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences⁩ youtu.be/WjDOS5Lxij0

The Salmonella phage shock protein system is required for defense against host antimicrobial peptides. The latest from the Coombes lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…