

Canada Research Chair in Infectious Disease Pathogenesis
Biochemist Brian Coombes has been awarded a second Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Infectious Disease Pathogenesis to investigate how major enteric pathogens — the organisms that enter our bodies and cause serious problems with our gastrointestinal systems — infect humans, and how human and environmental activities influence the evolution of these infectious diseases.

McMaster names University Scholars
I am deeply honored to have been recognized with the title of University Scholar. This couldn’t have happened without the amazing work of the many talented graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates who I have had the privilege of working with over the past 10 years.


Elizabeth Chau receives the Ontario Graduate Scholarship
The lab is proud to announce that MSc student Elizabeth Chau has received the 2016/2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her ongoing work on regulatory evolution in bacterial pathogens.

Grad student Caressa Tsai wins Canada Graduate Scholarship
The newest member of the Coombes lab team has won a Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC. Caressa Tsai joined the Coombes lab in 2016 from the University of Toronto, where she used bioinformatics and quantitative trait models to study molecular evolution.