Disease-causing bacteria are increasingly able to resist antibiotics used for treatment creating an unprecedented and growing global threat to human and animal health. Animal agriculture is also facing world-wide pressure to reduce its use of antibiotics in food animals. To meet this challenge veterinarians and livestock producers need fast and precise information about disease in […]
Dairy is one of Canada’s most important and dynamic industries. Global demand for dairy products is set to expand further in concert with the middle-class of emerging economies, the need for safe, affordable, nutritious and high-quality milk protein in developing countries and world population expansion. At the same time, the dairy industry is also facing
Asthma is now the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting 1 in 7 Canadian children. It is also expensive with a total cost to treat estimated at over $2B per year in Canada. This research project focusses on studying the composition of microorganisms living in our intestines (gut microbiome). Using new genomic technologies to
Chronic kidney disease affects 1 in 10 Canadians with estimated costs of over $2 billion/year. This project will employ genetic technologies to: 1) reduce the risk of rejection through better donor-patient matching, 2) monitor the immune response after transplant to predict AMR, 3) enable personalized treatment with powerful drugs to prevent rejection while avoiding infection
Liver abscesses and bovine respiratory disease (BRD) cause the greatest disease associated economic losses in the Canadian Beef Industry. As these conditions are mainly caused by Gram-negative bacteria, this combined with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may account for the limited efficacy of current antimicrobials. This project will use “omic” technologies to characterize the interaction between these
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