UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
MBIM Researchers Present at PacTB 2025
Trainees Julia Kleetz and Leah Rankine-Wilson share how their research advances therapeutic discovery for tuberculosis.
Rapid Bedside Test Predicts Sepsis with Over 90 Per Cent Accuracy
MBIM professor Bob Hancock and a team of Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods.
Celebrating the Career and Retirement of Professor Pauline Johnson
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community celebrate the career and retirement of Professor Pauline Johnson.
The Connection Between Climate Change and the Pacific Oyster Microbiome and Mortality
Shifting ocean conditions can influence the species forming both the oyster’s external ecosystem and internal community of microorganisms.
Is a Warmer World a Sicker World?
How pathogens threaten biodiversity and wildlife health as the climate changes.
Certain Bacteria in Breast Tumour Environments May Fuel Cancer Spread
Researchers from BC Cancer and UBC have discovered that certain bacteria found in breast tumours could be linked to cancerous spread.
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
Seminar
3
Jun
Exit Seminar- Christopher Lee
PhD Candidate, Kronstad Lab
Regulation and recognition of the polysaccharide capsule from Cryptococcus neoformans
Seminar
30
May
Joint EDI Seminar: Dr. Myrle Ballard
CRC T2 in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability Science Director of…
Join us for a joint EDI Seminar!
Event
27
May
MBIM Grad Tea- Class of 2025
Join us to celebrate the MBIM & BIOT Graduating Class of 2025. Friends and family welcome.
Hancock Lab
A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction...
Mohn & Eltis Labs
Characterization of a two-component kinase that initiates the bacterial catabolism...
Kronstad Lab
The interplay between electron transport chain function and iron regulatory factors..
Jean Lab
Nanomolar anti-SARS-CoV-2 Omicron activity of the host-directed TMPRSS2 inhibitor...