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Celebrating Sion Yi: Top Prize in Natural Science Presentation
Read more: Celebrating Sion Yi: Top Prize in Natural Science PresentationCongratulations to Sion Yi who presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Manitoba. Sion brought to our lab the 1st prize in the Natural Science poster presentation category for her work: CRISPR-Associated Transposase Reveals a Key Gene for Bioplastic Degradation in Burkholderia vietnamiensis LMG16232 in collaboration with Dr. Zhong Ling Yap…
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Postdoctoral fellow position
Read more: Postdoctoral fellow positionMolecular Microbiologist for Antibiotic Drug Discovery The Cardona Laboratory in the University of Manitoba, Canada is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Microbiology to join the project “Translational Approach with AI for Klebsiella Drug Discovery.” This international initiative—funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Brazil, Latin America, Portugal and Canada to…
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Funding news
Read more: Funding newsWe are happy to announce that the Cardona Lab is part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Brazil and Latin America, and researchers from Portugal funded by the prestigious international initiative “Global Grand Challenges – Gr-ADI (Gram-NegativeAntibiotic Discovery Innovator), funded by the Gates Foundation (FG), Wellcome and NovoNordisk Foundation”. The project is led by…
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Have you published in MRA?
Read more: Have you published in MRA?https://journals.asm.org/journal/mra I am happy to announce I am a new senior editor of Microbial Resource Announcent (MRA)! I would like to invite everyone to consider MRA to publish new genomes, transcriptomics, proteomics and any other microbial datasets. Besides supporting open data, publishing in MRA gives credits to trainees and early career investigators before the data…
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Thank you to @CF_Foundation for funding @cardona_lab @DrR_Davis and Dr Pingzhao Hu to develop an in silico tool for antibiotic activity prediction #cysticfibrosis #CFresearch #burkholderia #artificialintelligence #chemogenomics #cheminformatics
Read more: Thank you to @CF_Foundation for funding @cardona_lab @DrR_Davis and Dr Pingzhao Hu to develop an in silico tool for antibiotic activity prediction #cysticfibrosis #CFresearch #burkholderia #artificialintelligence #chemogenomics #cheminformaticsThe Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has awarded a Pilot and Feasibility Grant to the University of Manitoba Interdisciplinary team formed by Silvia Cardona, Rebecca Davis, and Pingzhao Hu. Together, the group will combine their expertise in chemogenomics, cheminfomatics and artificial intelligence to develop an in silico tool to predict antibiotic activity in Burkholderia cepacia complex, followed…
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Our last publication: The mechanism of action of a new broad-spectrum antibiotic molecule revealed!
Read more: Our last publication: The mechanism of action of a new broad-spectrum antibiotic molecule revealed!https://aac.asm.org/content/early/2018/10/02/AAC.01231-18 @cardonalab @um_microbio @umanitobasci @Research_MB @CFCanada #lab #microbiology #ummicrobio #umanitoba #burkholderia #antibiotics