Celebrations!

Today, the lab celebrates the news of a new grant from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation. This is our first time interacting with the foundation, and some aspects of the feedback process were very refreshing! In short, this grant funds Tamina’s project in partnership with the Bienenstock lab at McMaster, to see whether prophages are contibuting to the ‘probiotic’ activities seen in cell-free preparations from probiotic bacteria. I’m extremely excited to see where this will lead us - I think the foundation, the reviewers and I are all very aware that if this early work pays off, it could have enormous implications!