Featured Research: Diarrhea-Causing Bacteria Promote Growth of Crohn’s-Linked Microbe in Mice
The lab is excited to share our latest research, published today in PLoS Pathogens. Using a mouse model of Crohn’s disease, the lab...
New scholarship award pushes Coombes lab trainees over $1.5 million mark
MD/PhD student Alex Oberc has been awarded a $105,000 scholarship over 3-years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This new...
A fitting tribute to our friend and colleague, Michael Kamin Hart
Michael Kamin Hart left an indelible mark on the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research. He was a passionate...
LPS remodeling triggers outer membrane vesicles in Salmonella
In a new paper published in mBio, Dr. Wael Elhenawy (now a postdoctoral fellow in the Coombes lab), Dr. Mario Feldman (Washington...
See you in Potsdam
The Coombes lab is looking forward to the upcoming 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, being hosted in Potsdam, Germany in late August....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coombes Lab at the 2016 Research Plenary
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow HT Law and graduate student Elizabeth Chau for representing the Coombes lab at the 2016 Research...
