
News from the Benches: The Making of a Host-Adapted Bacterium
Writing in the new journal, Nature Microbiology, Brian Coombes looks at a new study that tracks genomic evolution of Salmonella during...

News from the Benches: New article out from the Coombes lab
Crohn’s disease is an immune-mediated intestinal disease and Canada has one of the highest rates of CD in the world. Publishing in the...

News from the Bench: Small-molecule adjuvant helps kill superbugs
Collaborative research from the Brown, Wright, and Coombes labs has been published in the journal ACS Infectious Diseases. This study...

From the bench: New PLoS Pathogens paper is out.
The lab is excited to share our latest research, recently published in PLoS Pathogens. In this work, Sarah Reid-Yu and colleagues showed...


News from the Benches: Antibiotic-resistant superbug disarmed with fungal compound
Results of a study that we contributed to from the Wright Lab are out today in Nature. “A team of researchers led by McMaster University...

News from the Benches: AIEC Breaches Host Defenses
The latest work from the Coombes lab was recently published in Infection & Immunity. This work was lead by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Joe...

News from the Benches: Coombes lab identifies a D-Alanine transporter
New work from the Coombes lab has identified a novel ABC transporter in Salmonella that transports D-alanine from the periplasm to the...

News from the Benches: Sequencing the Black Death
We were excited to be part of an international team — led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany...


News from the Benches: AIEC Genomics
The lab has reported new genomic data on adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) that are associated with Crohn’s Disease. In the first paper,...

News from the Benches: Coombes lab research featured in Science
Our work on regulatory evolution was featured in the Editor’s Choice Section in the February 27 issue of Science. In this paper, we...