Our People - Microbes and Health

Expertise:

• Chemical variations in teeth and what they reveal about the lives of their owners
• Dental anthropology, human osteology, bioarchaeology, paleonutrition and paleopollution, with a particular emphasis on reconstructing the experiences of children in the past
• Histological and microspatial chemical analyses (LA-ICP-MS, synchrotron) of ancient teeth and bones
• The human body and its shifting location in debates regarding ownership of biomaterials, sex/gender and sexuality, and the evolution of human behavioural universals

Expertise:

• DNA replication, cell cycle checkpoints, molecular genetics
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism for cancer-related studies of the cell cycle
• Initiation of DNA replication including identifying and characterizing protein factors
• Cancer diagnostic markers for cell proliferation
   

Expertise:

• Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of communicable bacterial infectious diseases
• Public health prevention of infectious diseases through immunizations, appropriate health and hygiene practices, and harm reduction programs
• Pedagogy and cirrucular design with an emphasis on integrating active-learning methods into undergraduate courses

Expertise:

• Modelling bacterial illness, including those from Salmonella and Shiga-toxin producing E. Coli
• COVID-19 infection mechanism and structure
• Biostatistics involving infection rates of microbes
• Analyzing the impacts of microbes on public health

Expertise:

• Exploring abilities of various bacteria to form resistance to widely used antibiotics, including colistin, polymyxin, and metronidazole
• Examining bacterial antibiotic resistance through a public health lens
• Microbial proteins that play a role in antibiotic resistance and microbial pathogenesis, especially considering Clostridioides difficile and Klebsiella sp.
• Relationships between various common antibiotics, concerning bacterial cross-resistance
• Sequencing of bacterial genomes to further understand antibiotic resistance across bacterial species