Designing and testing the efficacy of a RSV phosphoprotein mimetic on the inhibition of RSV replication and infection Student – Christopher Chiang, Honours Life Science Program, McMaster University Supervisor – Dr. James Mahony, St Joseph Hospital, McMaster University Read project final summary Parasitologic correlates of genomic differences in Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium ovale […]
Grants and Studentships
2015 AMMI Canada Medical Student Research Project
Community-acquired Clostridium difficile infections Student – Christina Thornton, Med 2, MD/PhD Program, University of Calgary Supervisor – Dr. Dylan R. Pillai, Medical Microbiologist, Calgary Lab Services, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary Read project final summary
2015 CFID Safe Drinking Water Pilot Project
Metagenomic analysis of drinking well water for rural and marginalized populations in regional Ontario – implications for testing, including human, public and environmental health Dr. Anna Majury, PhD, DVM, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Immunology and Schools of Environmental Sciences and of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University at Kingston, and […]
2015 CFID Themed Special Pilot Project
Performance and cost-effectiveness evaluation of multiplex molecular testing for enteric pathogens in a Canadian health-care setting Dr. Astrid Petrich, Division of Microbiology, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto Read project synopsis
2014 CFID Summer Undergraduate Student Research Projects
Pandemic waves-mortality in the Canadian expeditionary forces, 1918 Student – Alex Rewegan, McMaster University (Anthropology) Supervisor – Ann Herring PhD, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University Read research proposal Read project final summary The prevalence of STEC and stx+ wells and microbial source tracking of faecal contamination in rural Southern Ontario […]