Published Paper!

In keeping with the alliterations of the last few updates, we’ve published a paper. This is the first research paper from the lab and to say I’m ecstatic would be an understatement. I won’t dig into the paper itself - I just want to highlight how critical the contributions of the authors was here. First, I did not think this was going to be our first paper - it wasn’t even on my radar when I came to McMaster - Rabia and Amany worked bloody hard to move this along quickly! Second, I was convinced we had to do short, 1.5-2 h assays to avoid confounding regrowth - it was thanks to Amany’s insistence and hard work that we wound up with the impressive eradication.

Al-Anany AM, Fatima R, Hynes AP. 2021. Temperate phage-antibiotic synergy eradicates bacteria through depletion of lysogens. Cell Reports 35(8):109172