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

The 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 by experimental validation of predictions. Credits  go to lab members Md. Mohaiminul Islam, Kevin Jeffers, Andrew M. Hogan and Qian Liu for producing amazing preliminary results!

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Featuring Aarani Mathialagan

Aarani Mathialagan
Aarani Mathialagan Integrated Science Intern 2018

Aarani Mathialagan, a graduate from McMasters University Integrated Science Program worked over the summer with Dr. Cardona and a group of professors at University of Manitoba to develop a new Bachelors program with an interdisciplinary approach.  She did amazingly well! We wish her the best for the next step in her career!