UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Welcome Thea Whitman to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
As a new assistant professor, Whitman will explore how fires affect microbe-driven carbon cycling in soil.
A Different Kind of Magic Bullet: Host-Directed Antibody Therapies as Antivirals
Read graduate student Connor Thompson's winning entry of The Antibody Society's 2025 Science Writing Competition.
Microbiology and Immunology Hosts Learning and Laboratory Session for CEDAR Campers
To help spark an interest and sense of inclusion in science, our lecturers and graduate students guided local Indigenous youth through an interactive introduction to microbiology.
New Mega RNA Virus May Hold the Key to Mass Oyster Die-Offs
Curtis Suttle and a team of scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.
Seventy-Year-Old Parkinson’s Drug Shows Promise Against Tuberculosis
A new study led by Yossef Av-Gay reveals benztropine’s potential to treat the world’s deadliest infectious disease and combat growing antibiotic resistance.
Celebrating the Career and Retirement of Karen Smith
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community celebrate the career and retirement of lecturer Karen Smith.
Seminar
23
Sep
Seminar: Sonja Best
Chief, Laboratory of Neurological Infections and Immunity, National Institute of…
Beyond retroviruses: new effector functions for the antiviral restriction factor TRIM5a
Seminar
16
Sep
Seminar: Jim Sun
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of…
Targeting host phosphatases to combat tuberculosis
Seminar
9
Sep
Seminar: David Burstein
Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University
The Language of Microbial Genomes and their Mobile Genetic Elements
Seminar
13
Jun
Seminar: Drs. Justin and Erica Sonnenburg
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Gut Microbiome Industrialization and the Rise of Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Seminar
10
Jun
Exit Seminar- Katherine Donald
PhD Candidate, Finlay Lab
The role of breastmilk IgA in infant gut microbiota and immune development
Suttle Lab
Evolutionarily divergent nidovirus with an exceptionally large genome identified...
Hancock Lab
A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction...
