News & Updates
Sept 8, 2016. Welcome to Steve and Kevin for joining the lab. Steve just graduated from the University of Toronto and is awarded as an Eyes High postdoctoral fellow by the University of Calgary. Kevin did his undergraduate training at the University of Guelph and is starting his MSc in the Microbiology program.
Aug 29, 2016 We celebrated the end of summer with almost everyone (missing Jessica and Ayman). This is the first year the lab has grown up to have 14 people. Check out our recent group picture under People.
July 15, 2016. Thank you CIHR and all reviewers for another 5-year grant!
July 15, 2016. Welcome to Alberta Heritage Youth Research Summer (HYRS) Ayman and also welcome back the 2015 HYRS student Josh.
May 31, 2016. The DNA-mediated activation of T6SS manuscript is now accepted for publication in the journal Infection and Immunity.
May 1, 2016. Welcome to Dr. Brianne Burkinshaw, and summer students Mavis, Jessica and Peter, and two visiting scholars Drs Wang and Wu for joining the lab.
April 29, 2016. Megan presented her work at the 2016 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Advance in Banff.
April 18, 2016. We received a 5-year grant from NSERC. Tao's very first NSERC grant!
Mar 21, 2016. “We want to find out how bacteria kill each other” | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | University of Calgary http://vet.ucalgary.ca/home/news/we-want-find-out-how-bacteria-kill-each-other
Jan 26, 2016. Jessie and Brianne won the AIHS postdoctoral fellowship for three years!
Jan 14, 2016 Dr. Herb Schellhorn from McMaster University presented a Frontiers in Veterinary Medicine seminar as an invited speaker! Dr. Schellhorn also gave a career talk on "how to be great graduate students".
Dec 15, 2015. We received the official funding letter from the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA).
Nov 5, 2015. We presented our bacterial warfare talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Bacterial Pathogenesis meeting in Suzhou, China.
July 15, 2015. We are funded by CIHR for 5 years!
June 5, 2015. Congrats to everyone on the PNAS paper!
April 18, 2015 2015 PhD Career LIVEbrary. Tao met with graduate students to disccuss various career options for PhD and Masters students.
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April 10, 2015 Canada Research Chair Award to Tao and 7 other UofC faculty members
April 28, Big thank you to CIHR for approving Steve's CIHR fellowship application. Well done Steve!
Mar 1, Congrats to Megan and Kevin for winning the NSERC scholarship and Queen Elizabeth II scholarship.
Jan 10, Congrats to Megan for winning the highly competitive CSM Graduate Scholarship
Jan 3, First day for Silvina, welcome!
Sept 12, Congrats to Megan for another 1st-author paper!
Sept 8, Welcome to Steve and Kevin for joining the lab.
Aug 4, Congrats to Megan for winning a Faculty of Graduate Studies travel award!
July 15, We're grateful to CIHR and all reviewers for a 2nd 5year CIHR grant!
May 31, The T6SS activation in Cystic Fibrosis paper is accepted for publication in Infection and Immunity!
April 18, NSERC Discovery funded for 5 years!
Jan 26, Congrats to Jessie and Brianne for winning the prestigious AIHS postdoctoral fellowship awards! and thank you to the AIHS for the generous support!
2015
Nov 24, Thank you ALMA for the generous funding support!
Nov 7, Tao presented Megan's manuscript at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Bacterial Pathogenesis meeting at Suzhou. Megan gave a poster talk. well done!
Oct 28, Congrats to Le for publishing a paper two months after joining us.
Sept 1, Farewell to Dr. Mike Wilton who left for an exciting position at the University of California. Best of luck!
Aug 26, Dr. Le Tang joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow, welcome!
Aug 18, Joshua presented his summer work at the Alberta Heritage Youth Researcher Summer Program event.
Aug 12-13, thanks to Megan and Alex for their well prepared presentations at the Snyder Research day (Thu) and the SURE Research day (Fri)
July 14, Our research will be funded for 5 years by CIHR!
July 6, Check out our PNAS paper on T6SS chaperone and effector proteins.
July 3, 2015: Big thanks to CIHR anonymous reviewers and IAI committee for the supportive and constructive comments.
June 24, 2015: The new PNAS paper on T6SS effectors will be online in the week of July 6th.
June 5, 2015: Accepted! from PNAS.
May 30, 2015: ASM General Meeting in New Orleans. It's the 115th.
April 10, 2015: Official Announcement of Canada Research Chair Award and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant.
Mar 20, 2015: First day of Spring, and a new manuscript submitted...
Mar 17, 2015: Official Launch of the Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA)
Jan 27, 2015: Accepted! --from mBio. We report a new T6SS-dependent cell-well targeting effector.
Jan 13, 2015: PNAS officially accepted it! Our paper shows that the generation of reactive oxygen species is a general outcome in interspecies competition.
Dec 16, 2014: Tao and Richard visited the Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant and explored collaborative opportunities with the City. Check out the pictures.
Nov 20, 2014: The new NextSeq 500 sequencer is up and running in the lab.
Nov 19, 2014: Tao gave a talk at a student's H2O (Hope To Opportunity) event.
Oct 15, 2014: Tao gave a talk at the Snyder Institute Research Day.