Congratulations to Rachel on her first paper! Her brief communication entitled: "Antimicrobial resistance and beta-lactamase production of Escherichia coli causing canine urinary tract infections: Passive surveillance of laboratory isolates in Saskatoon, Canada, 2014" describes her work as a summer student in 2014. You can find her paper here. In this investigation Rachel found that resistance among E. coli isolated from canine urinary tract infections was not common; nearly

In collaboration with physician scientists at the University of Calgary (Drs. Deirdre Church and Ranjani Somayaji), members of TheRubinLab (Joe and Roshan) discuss the zoonotic potential of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, an organism commonly associated with dogs. Check out our invited editorial HERE just published in Future Microbiology where we share our opinions about this increasingly recognized zoonosis! Image: Staphylococcus pseudintermedius on blood agar. Find more im

TheRubinLab.com officially debuts at the Centre for Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 2016 fall symposium! Building the website was a collaborative product with Shannon Lucky, an Assistant Librarian in the Library Systems & Information Technology unit at the U of S. We presented our experiences building the online home for the Rubin lab, our associated Flickr page and our recommendations for other researchers wanting to build their online presence. Our talk/abstra

Ruwini Gamage representing the Rubin lab at the 7th International Conference on Colonic Spirochaetal Infections in Humans and Animals in Hannover, Germany. She shared the results of her first study investigating the antimicrobial susceptibility of Brachyspira isolated from clinically affected pigs in Western Candaa. Thanks to the Western Canadian Association of Swine Veterinarians and Swine Innovation Porc for making travel to this exciting event possible! #Graduatestudent #c

Congratulations to Roshan on sequencing another 17 S. pseudintermedius genomes! This work is part of a larger project that Roshan has undertaken to understand the mechanisms used by S. pseusintermedius to resist the tetracycline and sulfonamide type drugs. These investigations are supported by the Companion Animal Health Fund and Zoetis Animal Health. #Graduatestudent #wholegenomesequencing #Staphylococcuspseudintermedius #tetracycline #sulfonamide #MiSeq