I am humbled and honoured- a massive thank you to Urology Care Foundation Amer. Urol. Assn. for this recognition. This 2-year award period has been career-building, productive, and a blast! Thanks also to my mentor Burton Labs and colleagues Western Urology

📣Calling all #microbiome enthusiasts! 🧬💩🧫Join us for a networking event at the Great Hall Western University June 24th from 6-8pm. Graciously sponsored by the Weston Family Foundation, come connect with fellow experts and microbiome aficionados after Monday's Canadian Soc. Micro. sessions.

First speaker up Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his) from UC San Diego Health on precision microbiome medicine, and what we can learn from transfer of beneficial #microbes and social structures of #baboons 🐒🔬 University of Guelph MCB at UofG College of Biological Science Gairdner Foundation

Next up at the Gairdner Symposium is Verdu Lab from McMaster University discussing the role of the #microbiome in #celiac disease, with new insights on bacterial-derived #indole metabolites 🌾 🔬 Gairdner Foundation MCB at UofG College of Biological Science

Final speaker David Good from University of Guelph discusses missing #microbes and the fascinating microbiome compositions of the #Yanomami – a non-industrialized population of hunter gathers in the #Amazon rainforest 🌎 🔬 Gairdner Foundation MCB at UofG @EmmaAllenVercoe College of Biological Science

Great event hosted by Jeremy Burton Burton Labs & Weston Family Foundation St. Joseph's Health Care London @lawsonresearch at the leading edge of Microbiome research! Saman Maleki, PhD 🇨🇦

What a fantastic talk by Prof. & Dr. Isabelle Laforest-L. (she/her/elle) detailing her academic journey and successes characterizing host-microbe interactions in trees, moss, urban, and human gut microbiomes 🌳🍁💩 “luck happens to the prepared mind” ✨ Canadian Soc. Micro. CSM 2024 Conference #CSM2024

Excellent talk in the Canadian Soc. Micro. CSM 2024 Conference postdoc symposium by Karine Dufresne on an antivirulence bioactive with therapeutic potential against S. aureus menstrual toxic shock syndrome toxin TSST1 #csm2024

Rounding out the postdoc symposium CSM 2024 Conference Canadian Soc. Micro., Robbie Kuiack from McGavin Lab discusses how exogenous fatty acids promote the growth of S. aureus via B-oxidation. Fantastic work by all presenters! #csm2024

What an amazing evening at Cork City Gaol, including live music and Irish dancing ☘️ 🇮🇪 Brendan Daisley Dave Sarah Ahannach Patricia Nutrition

Had a great time in ireland for #ISAPP2024 — very proud and grateful to have received the peoples choice poster award ISAPP ISAPP-SFA

isolateR is out! 🔎🧬 Excited to share our new R package that simplifies generating #microbial libraries from Sanger #sequencing data! 🦠💻 Say goodbye to manually trimming poor quality regions/N’s & #BLAST limitations with our automated, scalable pipeline academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

How can probiotics prevent various health conditions? Gregor Reid, #SchulichMedDent professor, speaks on the benefits of certain microbes and probiotics on physical health in the latest richroll podcast episode. Take a listen: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4aImf2…

🎉 Huge congrats to Dr. John Chmiel Johnny Chmiel for winning the 2024 Collip Medal Award from Western Urology & Microbiology & Immunology! 🏆 This award honours the top PhD grad across all Schulich programs. Proud of you, Johnny! 👏🎓 Schulich WesternU

Excited to share our new article in NYAS, exploring the future of using #microbes as #medicine! We dive into microbiome modulation, from personalized #probiotics to #FMTs, and all the #microbe-centric therapies in between🔬🩻🩺 @EmmaAllenVercoe doi.org/10.1111/nyas.1…

Assessing microbiota in vivo: debugging with medical imaging Review by Jeremy Burton (@lawsonresearch) and colleagues Free access until Feb. 21: dlvr.it/TH8hWh

Medical imaging is set to revolutionize microbiome research with real-time insights! 🦠✨ From tracking microbial migration to monitoring intestinal permeability. Thrilled to share our latest in Trends in Microbiology: cell.com/trends/microbi… @lawsonresearch Microbiology & Immunology #Microbiome

Fresh off the press! 📰 Our latest study in NatureSustainability investigates how recent antibiotic regulations💊🦠, air pollution 🚛💨💨, and climate factors 📈🌎are shaping the health of managed honeybee colonies across Canada 🇨🇦🐝Read the full article here: nature.com/articles/s4189…