News
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Trainees present at PacTB 2025
June 2, 2025
Julia Kleetz and Leah Rankine-Wilson share how their research advances therapeutic discovery for tuberculosis.
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Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 percent accuracy
May 27, 2025
Bob Hancock and a team of Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can more rapidly and accurately detect the onset of sepsis.
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Celebrating the career and retirement of Pauline Johnson
May 14, 2025
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community celebrate the career and retirement of Pauline Johnson.
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Climate change and the Pacific oyster microbiome and mortality
April 30, 2025
Shifting ocean conditions can influence the species forming both the oyster’s external ecosystem and internal community of microorganisms.
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François Jean reflects on five years of COVID-19
April 10, 2025
François Jean reflects on his team’s progress, the state of COVID-19 research, and lessons learned that can improve pandemic preparedness and response.
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The Last of Us: Fungal infections and climate change
April 7, 2025
Jim Kronstad discusses the science behind fungi, accuracies and inaccuracies of the science of the TV show, and how fungi respond to a warming climate.
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Epstein-Barr infection promotes autoimmunity in multiple sclerosis
March 5, 2025
Marc Hortwitz's team provides new evidence that latent infection with Epstein-Barr virus can prime the immune system for susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.
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Early life gut inflammation has widespread effects
February 27, 2025
Carolina Tropini's team reports how gut microbiome disruption in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease influences behaviour, sex hormones, and brain structures.
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Celebrating Julian Davies (1932-2025)
February 20, 2025
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community honour the life of Julian Davies, who passed away on February 2, 2025.
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Celebrating Julia Levy (1934-2024)
February 13, 2025
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community honor the life of Julia Levy, who passed away on December 5, 2024.