Last week Yenuki Rajapaksha (Rubin lab summer student alumni, and future dentistry student), had the opportunity to attend the annual CACMID conference in Vancouver. CACMID (Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) is always a great opportunity to interact with physicians, diagnostic microbiologists and infectious disease specialists and learn about the latest advances in human infectious diseases. This year we presented the results of two colla

It’s that time of the year again when we welcome eager summer students into the lab to try their hand at a research project. This year, theRubinlab is hosting Cayla Pinheiro and Alix Nelson who are going into their 2nd and 3rd years of the DVM program respectively. Cayla is going to be characterizing a set of canine Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates that we’ve been collecting from a Prairie Diagnostic Services since late 2013. Over the summer, she’s going to work to determine t

As scientists we might be more used to working with hypotheses and data, but Donyun has shown his artistic side with his latest plate art. His art was impressive enough that he’s made it through to the finals of the “People’s Choice” category in the annual ASM competition – check out the ASM Facebook page, see the plate and his narrative description (I think he might have some poet in him as well!) and don’t forget to click like… this is the people’s choice after all. You can