Current Funding
Weston Family Foundation “Training the Microbiome - a non-pharma, non-GMO approach” (2023-2027)
$993 464
NPI
In collaboration with University College Cork, we are exploring how to manipulate microbial memory to ‘train’ bacteria in order to edit the microbiome at the level of functionality, rather than composition.
David BRaley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery “Phage suseptibility and resistance in vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)” (2024-2025)
$50 000
co-I
Led by Dr. John Whitney, we will be characterizing an unsual mechanism of phage resistance in Enterococcus
NSERC Discovery Grant “Temperate Phages Manipulate Bacterial Populations” (2018-2025)
+ Discovery Launch Supplement (2019-2020)
$265,000
NPI
The study of phages is often centered on virulent (strictly lytic) bacteriophages. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) supports a research program focused on fundamental aspects of the biology of temperate phages.
FRQ-NT/NSERC NOVA “BRIDGE – Brochothrix Research on the Investigation of Diversity and Genetic Evolution” (2024-2027)
$273 743
co-I
Led by Antony Vincent, PhD at Université Laval, we are looking to leverage phage to combat meat spoilage.
Past Funding
-John R. Evans Leaders Fund/Canadian Foundation for Innovation “Bacteriophages and the Gut Microbiome” (2018-2023)
-Weston Family Microbiome Initiative “Prophages & Probiotics: the contribution of bacterial viruses to the beneficial biological activities of Bacteria” (2020-2023)
-Farncombe Family Chair In Phage Biology (Startup) (2017-2023)
-Weston Family /APC Microbiome “Conditioning the Microbiome” (2020-2022)
-New Frontiers in Research Foundation “To Catch a (not) Killer - beyond Cell-Death Mediated Bacterial Virus detection” (2019-2021)
-David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery / Farncombe - “Joint Phage Initiative” (2019-2021)
Student Funding
While I can take no credit for this funding, the exceptional trainees in the lab work hard and often secure scholarships to cover their stipend. This is a tremendous benefit to the lab, and without the aid of these funders , the lab would be a very different place.