People
Those listed below are interested in microbiome research in Canada, including researchers, developers, funders and domain experts from academia, industry, and government. If you would like to be added to this list, please sign up for a MicrobiomeCanada account here.
First Name | Last Name | Position | Affiliation | Province | Researcher type | Research area/interests |
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Arthur | Mortha | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto | Ontario | Academic | 1. Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC) biology 2. Host-microbiome interactions 3. Myeloid Cell biology |
Diego | Silva | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) | University of Sydney | British Columbia | Academic | microbiome and ethics; public health ethics |
Meghan | Azad | Associate Professor | University of Manitoba | Manitoba | Clinical, Academic | Infant microbiome, human milk composition, developmental origins of health and disease, breastfeeding, infant nutrition, donor human milk, maternal nutrition, artificial sweeteners |
Emma | Allen-Vercoe | Professor | University of Guelph | Ontario | Industry, Academic | 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. |
Kathy | McCoy | Professor | University of Calgary | Alberta | Academic | Microbiome, immunology |
Marie-Claire | Arrieta | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Alberta | Clinical, Academic | Early-life microbiome, asthma, microbial eukaryotes, immune development |
Dongyan | Niu | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Alberta | Academic | Bacteriophage genome and therapy |
Ian | Lewis | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Alberta | Academic | 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. |
Carolina | Tropini | Assistant Professor | University of British Columbia | British Columbia | Academic | 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. |
Kelly | McNagny | Professor | University of British Columbia | British Columbia | Academic | Immunology, Stem Cell Biology, Mucosal Immune Response, Innate Lymphoid Cells, Tissue Repair and Fibrosis, Cancer, Cell Trafficking, Vascular Biology, Kidney Function and Disease |
Benjamin | Willing | Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbiology of Nutrigenomics | University of Alberta, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science | Alberta | Academic | 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. |
Karen | Madsen | Professor | University of Alberta | Alberta | Academic | environmental and dietary influences on host-microbial interactions; inflammatory bowel disease; fecal microbial transplantation; obesity and metabolic syndrome; fiber |
Eytan | Wine | Associate Professor | University of Alberta | Alberta | Academic | 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. |
Helen | Tremlett | Professor | UBC | British Columbia | Academic | multiple sclerosis; microbiome; pharmaco-epidemiology; drug safety; drug effectiveness; pharmacogenomics |
Amanda | Ricciuto | Assistant Professor | The Hospital for Sick Children | Ontario | Academic | Paediatric colitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis |
Fiona | Brinkman | Professor | Simon Fraser University | British Columbia | Academic | 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. |
Mike | Peabody | Grad student | Simon Fraser University | British Columbia | Academic | Metagenomics with a focus on freshwater microbial ecology. I am also interested in the relationship between the microbiome and health. |
Claire | Bertelli | Simon Fraser University | British Columbia | Academic | ||
Justin | Jia | PhD Graduate Student | Simon Fraser University | British Columbia | Academic | 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. |
Jonathan | Schertzer | Associate Professor | McMaster University | Ontario | Academic | 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. |
Andrew | McArthur | Associate Professor | McMaster University | Ontario | Academic | bioinformatics, antimicrobial resistance, Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database, metagenomics |
Celia | Greenwood | Senior Investigator | Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research | Quebec | Academic | Statistical methods development for microbiome data and other 'omic data. |
Padmaja | Subbarao | Clinician-Scientist | Hospital for Sick Children | Ontario | Clinical, Academic | 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. |
John | Parkinson | Senior Scientist | Hospital for Sick Children | Ontario | Academic | Eukaryotic Microbiome; Metatranscriptomics; Malnutrition; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Global Health; Poultry Microbiome; Community Metabolic Models; Community Probiotics |
Thea | Van Rossum | EMBL | Academic | Human and environmental microbiome analysis and tool development. Teaching data analysis skills and programming. | ||
Robert | Beiko | Professor | Dalhousie University | Nova Scotia | Academic | Bioinformatics software: microbial ecology, lateral gene transfer, geographic analysis, sequence classification. Also interested in relationships between the microbiome and frailty. |
Morgan | Langille | Assistant Professor | Dalhousie University | Nova Scotia | Academic | Development of bioinformatic methods for microbiome research and studies involving host-microbe interactions. Also I run the Integrated Microbiome Resource (http://cgeb-imr.ca/) |