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Our laboratory is located in Room 133 Sieben's-Drake Research Institute Dr. McCormick is an Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, a Scientist in the Lawson Health Research Institute, and a member of the Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics at LHRI and Infectious Diseases Research Groups at UWO. |
Lab News
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- Congratulations to Shipa who won the Gold Medal for the Honors class of 2009 in Microbiology and Immunology.
- Congratulations to Katie who was awarded the Drs. Madge and Charles Macklin Fellowship for Teaching & Research - one of two awards given out in Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Well done Katie.
- Congratulations to Brent and Kelcey who successfully defended their candidacy proposals and are now PhD Candidates.
- Congratulations to Mohammad Hussain and Lindsay Bowman who were both awarded NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards for the coming summer.
- Two new papers were published with our collaborators within the Superantigen Research Group:
- Hayworth J, Kasper K, Leon-Ponte M, Herfst C, Yue D, Brintnell W, Mazzuca D, Heinrichs D, Cairns E, Madrenas J, Hoskin D, McCormick J, and Haeryfar SM (2009): Attenuation of massive cytokine response to the staphylococcal enterotoxin B superantigen by the innate immunomodulatory protein lactoferrin. Clinical and Experimental Immunology (in press)
- T. Chau, M. McCully, W. Brintnell, G. An, K. Kasper, E. Vines, P. Kubes, M. Haeryfar, J. McCormick, E. Cairns, D. Heinrichs, and J. Madrenas. (2009). TLR2 Ligands on the Staphylococcal cell wall down-regulate superantigen-induced T cell activation and prevent toxic shock syndrome. Nature Medicine
Our Team
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Daniyal Ansari, BMSc Honors Student (4th year), Medical Sciences, University of Western Ontario Work study student (May 2009-) |
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Brent Armstrong, B.Sc. Honours (2007), Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Guelph PhD. Candidate (Sep 2007-) |
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Lindsay Bowman, Undergraduate Student, Microbiology and Immunology University of Western Ontario NSERC USRA Student (May 2009-August 2009) Lindsay will be doing an internship in Toronto for the 2009-2010 academic year. See you next year Lindsay. |
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Shipa Gupta, BMSc Honors (2009), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Honor's Thesis Student/Research Assistant (May 2007-) |
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Jacqueline Hayworth, BMSc Honors (2009), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Master's Candidate (Sept 2009-) (Jointly supervised by Dr. Mansour Haeryfar) |
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Christine Herfst, B.Sc. (1996), Specialization in Cell Biotechnology, University of Alberta Research Associate (Oct 2003-) Currently on maternity leave |
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Katie Kasper, B.Sc.Honors (2004), M.Sc. (2007), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Ph.D. Candidate (May 2007-) |
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Dr. Jingru Li, B.Sc. (2001), Microbiology, Wuhan University; Ph.D. (2007), Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Alberta Postdoctoral Associate (Nov 2007-) |
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Kelcey Patterson, B.Sc. Honors (2007) Biology, Acadia University PhD. Candidate (Sep 2007-) |
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Nur-ur Rahman, B.Sc. Honours (2003) Immunology, University of Toronto Ph.D. Candidate (Jan 2004-) |
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Mathias Scinocca, BMSc Honors Student (4th year), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Honors Thesis Student (Sept 2009-) |
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Delfina Siroen, B.Sc. Honours (1994) Biochemistry, M.Sc. Biochemistry (1998), University of Western Ontario Research Associate (Feb 2009-) |
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Margot Smith, BMSc Honors Student (4th year), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Honors Thesis Student (Sept 2009-) |
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Stacey Xu, BMSc Honors (2009), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Master's Candidate (Sept 2009-) |
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Joseph Zeppa, BMSc Honors Student (3rd year), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario Work study student (Sept 2009-) |
