UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Welcome Chadi Saad-Roy to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
As a new assistant professor joint with the Department of Mathematics, Saad-Roy will study infectious disease dynamics using computational modelling.
Warding off Allergies and Asthma with Breastmilk
New research from Brett Finlay’s lab reveals how antibodies in breastmilk influence the bacteria present in the infant gut and how these bacteria in turn train the maturing immune system.
Kayla King Awarded Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal
Kayla King’s research promises to bolster global preparedness against infectious diseases amidst environmental upheaval.
Pathogens are Evolving, but Research is, Too
Researchers in UBC’s Prepare for Pandemics through Advanced Research in Evolution (PrePARE) cluster bring together complementary expertise to outwit infectious diseases.
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.
Event
10
Oct
Julian Davies Memorial Symposium
Honouring the life, career, and legacy of Julian Davies.
Seminar
7
Oct
Seminar: Carolina Tropini
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of…
How the gut environment shapes the microbiota: mechanisms and engineering opportunities
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…
Mechanisms to Medicine: Harnessing Cellular Microbiology 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
Suttle Lab
Evolutionarily divergent nidovirus with an exceptionally large genome identified...
Hancock Lab
A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction...