ACAD: Leveraging Alberta’s Healthcare System to Accelerate Innovation

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  • Our Facilities

    Our ACAD spaces include a Diagnostic Prototyping Facility and Diagnostic Evaluation Facility in Calgary, AB

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  • CMRF

    Canada’s national hub for microbial metabolomics

    The Calgary Metabolomics Research Facility is a research and fee for service facility serving over 90 PIs from across North America

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  • Our Publications

    Browse the Lewis Research Group publications below!

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  • Software

    The Lewis Research Group’s data scientists have produced a suite of software tools that are open to public use. See them below and let us know what you think!

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  • ResistanceDB

    Revolutionizing the fight against antibiotic resistance, ResistanceDB deploys Precision Infection Management to harness the untapped data within microbes, enabling personalized, risk-based treatment strategies that could extend the lifespan of current antibiotics and save millions of lives.

    Learn more about ResistanceDB

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Upcoming Conferences

  • Poster locations:

    Tuesday, June 4:

    Microorganism and the microbiome II

    o TP 491 - Ian Lewis - LC-MS as a platform for precision medicine: predicting survival from bloodstream infections using a training set of 38,000 microbial proteomes

    o TP 489 - Annegret Ulke-Lemee - Beyond the Biotyper: leveraging LC-MS proteomics to systematically map the proteomes of 38,000 bloodstream infection isolates;

  • ACAD will be at booth #5

    CMRF will be at booth #206

    Presentations:

    Friday, June 14:

    AAR-P-001 Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Clinical Isolates: Molecular Typing and Molecular Epidemiology
    o AAR01 - Andriy Plakhotnyk: Silent Polyclonal Infections in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Evidence for Heteroresistance Through Multiple Infection

    CIV-P-019 Infection Biology and Dynamics: Bacteria and Mycobacteria
    o CIV07 - Annegret Ulke-Lemee: Decoding Bloodstream Infections: Insights from the Calgary BSI Cohort and the First Systematic Multi-Omic Virulence Map

    CPHM-P-032 Molecular and Genome Sequencing for Diagnostics and AMR Detection
    o CPHM12 - Anika Westlund: Outcomes, Costs, and Severity of Bacteremia Caused by Related Pathogens that Cannot Be Resolved via Current MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Methods

    Saturday, June 15:

    MBP-P-008. Stress Responses

    o Stephanie Bishop: The MleN Compensatory Mutation in Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae Affects Central Carbon Metabolism

    Sunday, June 16:

    AAR-P-003. Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Clinical Isolates: Molecular Typing and Molecular Epidemiology
    o AAR01 - Maryam Mapar: Systematic Multi-Omics Survey of Staphylococcus aureus Small Colony Variants

    CIV-P-003. Clinical Studies of Adult Infectious Diseases, Including Epidemiology and Clinical Trials
    o CIV01 - Ian Lewis: Evolution of Microbial Populations in Calgary over 16-years: Insights from a Comprehensive Multi-Omics Analysis of 38,000 Bloodstream Pathogens

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