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				Microbiome sites	Research area / interests
Emma Allen-Vercoe	Professor	University of Guelph	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Animal models Mouse models Swine	Culture of microbial ecosystems, predominantly from the human colon but also other sites/animals. Use of bioreactors to support whole ecosystems. Development of complex but defined microbial ecosystems. Understanding and characterizing the hunter/gatherer human gut microbiome; culture and characterization of rare taxa/missing microbes. Anaerobic microbiology. Development of 'microbial ecosystem therapeutics' to treat human disease. Co-founder and CSO of NuBiyota LLC to promote translational microbiota research and develop novel biologic drug products based on the microbiome.
Marie-Claire Arrieta	Assistant Professor	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Mouse models	Early-life microbiome, asthma, microbial eukaryotes, immune development
Meghan Azad	Associate Professor	University of Manitoba	Manitoba	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Infant microbiome, human milk composition, developmental origins of health and disease, breastfeeding, infant nutrition, donor human milk, maternal nutrition, artificial sweeteners
Simon Bacon	Professor	Concordia University & CIUSSS-NIM	Quebec	Human microbiome	Behavioural interventions and factors that link behaviours to health outcomes.
Robert Beiko	Professor	Dalhousie University	Nova Scotia	Human microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome	Bioinformatics software: microbial ecology, lateral gene transfer, geographic analysis, sequence classification. Also interested in relationships between the microbiome and frailty.
Alicia Berard	Assistant Professor	University of Manitoba	Manitoba	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Urogenital Vaginal	Reproductive health and diseases, microbiome and mucosal biology, bacterial vaginosis, HPV and cervical cancer, infertility, female and male reproductive microbiomes
Claire Bertelli	PDF	Simon Fraser University	British Columbia	Human microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Freshwater environment Built environment
Michael Bording-Jorgensen	PDF	University of Alberta	Alberta	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	Bacterial microbiome in the development and treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. I am particularly interested in the development of pathobionts and the gut microenvironment. In addition, how the commensalism microbes interact with the immune system in generating a level of tolerance and how this is affected in individuals with IBD.
Anna Bramucci	post doc	UBC	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome	marine microbiome
Fiona Brinkman	Professor	Simon Fraser University	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Freshwater environment Mining Built environment Animal models	Integration of microbiome data with other data, and application of integrated approaches for studying infectious diseases, microbial interactions. Development of bioinformatic resources for genomic epidemiology, understanding pathogen evolution, and improving prediction of new vaccine/drug targets. Also applying our approaches to study innate immunity, allergic disease, and the environment.
Tanya Copley	Researcher	CÉROM	Quebec
Marina Costa Fujishima	graduate student	University of Manitoba	Manitoba	Human microbiome Vaginal Animal models Mouse models	vaginal microbiome
Brendan Daisley	PDF	University of Guelph	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Animal models	microbe-xenobiotic interactions, detoxficiation, neuroimmune-microbiota interactions, gut-brain axis, honey bees, pesticides, environmental sustainability
Travis De Wolfe	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of British Columbia	British Columbia	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital. The goal of my research is to use microbiological culture techniques and sequencing technologies to test theories regarding the role of bacterial communities in human health. My research interests include inflammatory bowel diseases, Clostridioides difficile infection, host-microbe interactions, and microbial ecology.
Aaron Del Duca	Principal	OMX Advisors Inc	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal
Ahmad Ud Din	Researcher	Southwest Medical University Luzhou Sichuan China	British Columbia	Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models
Peter Dobranowski	PhD Candidate	University of Ottawa	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	Inflammatory bowel disease, precision nutrition, microbiome
Qingling Duan	Assistant Professor	Queen's University	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal	My research program in bioinformatics aims to identify novel biological mechanisms underlying multifactorial traits/diseases by employing statistical and machine learning methods such as: i) additive and multiplicative models for integrating genomic variations with environmental exposures to determine interaction effects; ii) epistatic and network approaches to construct gene networks ; iii) develop novel methods for simultaneous analysis of multiple ‘omics datasets (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, microbiome) to study the complex and dynamic nature of biological networks.
Mehrbod Estaki	PDF	University of California San Diego	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal Soil Mining Built environment Animal models Mouse models Rat	host-microbiome interaction, gut-brain axis, bioinformatics, metagenomics, microbial ecology, inflammatory bowel disease, exercise, UTI, Alzheimer's disease, QIIME 2, R, python, FMT, benchmarking bioinformatics tools/pipelines.
Daniel Figeys	Professor	University of Ottawa	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Gut microbiome, drug-microbiome interactions, omics and bioinformatics
Louise Gau	Graduate	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal Freshwater environment Marine Soil	Health Promotion and Disease Prevention through Nutrition and the Gut Microbiome
Gerry Giesbrecht	Associate Professor	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	My lab is interested in the relations between the gut microbiota and human behavior. Specifically, we are interested in the role of the gut microbiota in shaping neurocognitive and mental health outcomes among children. Much of our work also incorporates components of the stress response systems, including the vagus nerve and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
Daniel Giguere	PhD candidate	Western University	Ontario	Human microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Freshwater environment Mining	nanopore sequencing, metagenomic sequencing, bioinformatic software development, data visualization, pipeline development, synthetic biology, illumina sequencing, high molecular weight DNA extraction
Celia Greenwood	Senior Investigator	Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research	Quebec		Statistical methods development for microbiome data and other 'omic data.
Janet Hill	Professor	University of Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Oral Vaginal Swine Cattle	Microbial diversity and interactions, infectious disease, microbiomes of humans and other animals, reproductive health, barcode sequencing, diagnostics
Jessie Hulst	Associate professor	The Hospital for Sick Children	Ontario	Gut microbiome	Pediatric malnutrition, growth and body composition Pediatric gastroenterology
Thiviya Jeyakumar	Grad student	McGill University	Quebec	Gut microbiome
Justin Jia	PhD Graduate Student	Simon Fraser University	British Columbia	Animal microbiome Skin Marine	Bioinformatics, tool development, 16s amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing of microbiomes. My current project involves detecting and understanding the lateral gene transfer of antimicrobial resistance in the environment, and studying the effect of environmental contaminants on Canadian beluga health and identify microbiome biomarkers of such contaminants.
Maryam Kebbe	Assistant Professor	University of New Brunswick	New Brunswick	Gut microbiome	Developmental origins of health and disease; breastmilk; microbiome; nutrition; obesity
Steven Kembel	Professor	UQAM	Quebec	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Freshwater environment Soil Built environment	Microbial ecology & evolution, quantitative biology, bioinformatics
Irah King	Professor and Centre Director	McGill University	Quebec	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Animal models Mouse models	Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Microbiome Research
Eric Yunhan Kwon	PhD Student	McMaster University	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	inflammatory bowel disease; environmental/dietary/xenobiotic influence on host-microbiome interaction; intestinal organoids;
Morgan Langille	Assistant Professor	Dalhousie University	Nova Scotia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome	Development of bioinformatic methods for microbiome research and studies involving host-microbe interactions. Also I run the Integrated Microbiome Resource (http://cgeb-imr.ca/)
Ian Lewis	Assistant Professor	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Marine Soil	The Lewis Research Group’s Calgary Metabolomic Research Facility (CMRF) is the metabolomics and proteomics lead for the International Microbiome Centre, and it serves as the metabolomics hub for the IMPACTT Microbiome core. Through these partnerships, the Lewis Research Group supports a variety of investigations into the proteomic and metabolomic underpinnings of host-microbiome interactions.
Leyuan Li	PDF	University of Ottawa	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Soil Built environment Mouse models	Metaproteomics, high-throughput microbiome assay, gut microbiome, bioinformatics for multivariate statistics and visualization, microbial ecology, ecosystem engineering.
Genelle Lunken	Assistant Professor	University of British Columbia and IBD Centre of BC	British Columbia	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	In the Lunken Lab we aim to expand our knowledge of host-immune-microbe interactions, with a specific focus on identifying host (i.e., diet) and microbial factors involved in inter-individual response to medical and dietary therapies.
Jean Macklaim	Bioinformatics scientist	Industry: Diversigen/DNA Genotek	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal Soil	Human microbiome; vaginal and urogenital; women's health; applications of bioinformatic and statistical approaches on biological and clinical data; compositional data analyses; sequencing technologies; multi-omics data integration
Kellie MacLean	Graduate Student - Health Data & Biostatistics	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal Soil	Using AI based approaches for antimicrobial resistance strategies, pattern recognition in biofilms, data visualization, and bacteriophage matching.
Karen Madsen	Professor	University of Alberta	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Animal models Mouse models	environmental and dietary influences on host-microbial interactions; inflammatory bowel disease; fecal microbial transplantation; obesity and metabolic syndrome; fiber
Andrew McArthur	Associate Professor	McMaster University	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Skin	bioinformatics, antimicrobial resistance, Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database, metagenomics
Kathy McCoy	Professor	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Skin Animal models Mouse models	Microbiome, immunology
Kevin McGregor	Assistant Professor	York University	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome	Statistical genetics, microbiome data analysis, compositional data, Bayesian statistics, DNA methylation analysis
Kelly McNagny	Professor	University of British Columbia	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	Immunology, Stem Cell Biology, Mucosal Immune Response, Innate Lymphoid Cells, Tissue Repair and Fibrosis, Cancer, Cell Trafficking, Vascular Biology, Kidney Function and Disease
Ali Mirza	PhD student	UBC	British Columbia	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Skin Urogenital Vaginal	Interested in microbiome bioinformatics, analytics, and biostatistics. My current project is on the trivariate relationship between dietary patterns, the gut microbiome, and pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.
Sydney Morgan	Research Program Coordinator	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Plant microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Vaginal Soil Mouse models
Arthur Mortha	Assistant Professor	University of Toronto	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Animal models Mouse models	1. Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC) biology 2. Host-microbiome interactions 3. Myeloid Cell biology
Dongyan Niu	Assistant Professor	University of Calgary	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Cattle	Bacteriophage genome and therapy
Lisa Osborne	Assistant Professor	University of British Columbia	British Columbia	Gut microbiome Mouse models	Our group uses pre-clinical models and gnotobiotic techniques to interrogate how members of the intestinal ecosystem (bacteria, viruses and helminths) influence host protective immunity in response to pathogen infection and pathogenic autoimmunity, particularly in the context of multiple sclerosis.
John Parkinson	Senior Scientist	Hospital for Sick Children	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Urogenital Vaginal Mouse models Swine Other	Eukaryotic Microbiome; Metatranscriptomics; Malnutrition; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Global Health; Poultry Microbiome; Community Metabolic Models; Community Probiotics
Mike Peabody	Grad student	Simon Fraser University	British Columbia	Human microbiome Freshwater environment	Metagenomics with a focus on freshwater microbial ecology. I am also interested in the relationship between the microbiome and health.
Amanda Ricciuto	Assistant Professor	The Hospital for Sick Children	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Paediatric colitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis
Gloria Rodriguez	Patient	Senior	Ontario	Gut microbiome	Microbiota and BMS
Javad Sadeghi	Grad student	University of Windsor	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Skin Freshwater environment Soil Animal models
Jonathan Schertzer	Associate Professor	McMaster University	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Animal models Mouse models	Immunometabolism, diabetes, obesity, microbiota, postbiotics: We are interested in figuring out how xenobiotics, diet and microbial stress promote or combat obesity, prediabetes, and diabetic complications. We are excited to help students discover new aspects in the 2-way street between host glucose and commensal or pathogenic bacteria.
Alana Schick	Staff scientist	University of British Columbia	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome
Diego Silva	Lecturer (Assistant Professor)	University of Sydney	British Columbia		microbiome and ethics; public health ethics
Mason Stothart	Grad Student	University of Calgary	Alberta	Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Gut microbiome Oral Animal models Other	Host-microbiome ecology and (co)evolution in the wild. Mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of the host-microbiome relationship. Evolution to (and from) and anthropogenic niches, particularly in the context of feral systems and urban ecosystems.
Padmaja Subbarao	Clinician-Scientist	Hospital for Sick Children	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Pulmonary Other	The CHILD study is a birth cohort study aimed at understanding the root causes of asthma, allergy and the development of chronic disease. Children, now age 8 years, have been followed along with their mothers since early pregnancy. Children have been exquisitely phenotyped for asthma and allergy and have provided repeated biological samples since early life. Unique to this study is the extensive objective measures obtained in allergy (skin prick testing) since infancy as well as lung function that has been repeated since infancy.
Mariia Taguer	PhD student	McGill University	Quebec	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Gut bacterial physiology, single-cell methods
Amel Taibi	Lecturer, staff scientist	University of Toronto	Ontario	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Mouse models	Nutrition, Microbiology
Thomas Tompkins	Research Director	Rosell Institute for Microbiome and Probiotics	Quebec	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Vaginal	Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis. Microbial influence on behaviour and neurodegeneration. Microbiome in the context of dietary and drug interventions.
Helen Tremlett	Professor	UBC	British Columbia	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	multiple sclerosis; microbiome; pharmaco-epidemiology; drug safety; drug effectiveness; pharmacogenomics
Carolina Tropini	Assistant Professor	University of British Columbia	British Columbia	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Animal models Mouse models	In the Tropini lab, we are investigating how a disrupted physical environment in diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and chronic diarrhea affect the microbiota and host at a multi-scale level. We are a cross-disciplinary group that incorporates techniques from microbiology, bioengineering, biophysics and more to create highly parallel assays and study how bacteria and communities function, with the eventual goal of translating the knowledge we gain to improve human health.
Thea Van Rossum	PDF	EMBL	Non-Canadian	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Environmental microbiome Freshwater environment Mining	Human and environmental microbiome analysis and tool development. Teaching data analysis skills and programming.
Benjamin Willing	Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbiology of Nutrigenomics	University of Alberta, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science	Alberta	Human microbiome Animal microbiome Gut microbiome Skin Vaginal Animal models Mouse models Swine Rat Cattle Other	My lab is interested in understanding the role of the intestinal microbiota and diet-microbe-host interactions in health outcomes, with particular focus on metabolic disease and infection resistance. We use rodent and pig gnotobiotic models with defined communities to understand the role of previously uncharacterized microbes in microbial ecology, metabolite production, and host responses. Microbes that we are currently focusing on include Prevotella, Parasutterella, Escherichia coli and yeast. We are also working on improving microbial formulations of kefir.
Eytan Wine	Associate Professor	University of Alberta	Alberta	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Host-microbe interactions, especially related to pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Also interested in effects of nutrition on micrbiome. Lab uses human samples, translational models, and wet-lab methods.
Marta Wojtanowski	Student	University of Guelph	Ontario	Human microbiome Gut microbiome Vaginal Animal models Mouse models Swine	Microbiota composition, nutritional implications in gut health, dysbiosis, animal and human microbiome, sampling. I am a dedicated student with an interest in gut health. I am looking for a mentor for my graduate studies. I hope to continue my studies in the area of the microbiome.
Justin Cook	Database Developer	Simon Fraser University	British Columbia	Human microbiome Gut microbiome	Bioinformatics, Microbiology, Software

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