News
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UBC launches world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet
September 29, 2025
Steven Hallam and other UBC researchers launched the world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, the MycoToilet.
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Welcoming new assistant professor Chadi Saad-Roy
September 18, 2025
Joint with the Department of Mathematics, Saad-Roy will study infectious disease dynamics using computational modelling.
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Warding off allergies and asthma with breastmilk
August 28, 2025
Brett Finlay's team investigates how antibodies in breastmilk influence the bacteria in the infant gut and how these bacteria train the maturing immune system.
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Kayla King awarded the Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal
August 27, 2025
Kayla King’s research promises to bolster global preparedness against infectious diseases amidst environmental upheaval.
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Pathogens are evolving, but research is, too
August 26, 2025
Researchers in UBC’s Prepare for Pandemics through Advanced Research in Evolution cluster bring together complementary expertise to outwit infectious diseases.
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A different kind of magic bullet: Host-directed antibody therapies as antivirals
August 20, 2025
Read graduate student Connor Thompson's winning entry of The Antibody Society's 2025 Science Writing Competition.
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Welcoming new assistant professor Thea Whitman
August 20, 2025
Whitman will explore how fires affect microbe-driven carbon cycling in soil.
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The department hosts learning and laboratory session for CEDAR campers
August 19, 2025
To help spark an interest and sense of inclusion in science, our team guided local Indigenous youth through an interactive introduction to microbiology.
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Parkinson’s drug shows promise against tuberculosis
August 12, 2025
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.
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New mega RNA virus may hold the key to mass oyster die-offs
August 5, 2025
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.