Meet Dr. Lewis, scientific mentor for the Creative Destruction Lab Rockies @UofC
The University of Calgary is a 21st Century Innovation Hub. In this innovation ecosystem, Dr. Ian Lewis thrives. Leader of the Calgary Metabolomics Research Facility (CMRF), Dr. Lewis addresses key world problems such as reducing deaths and disabilities from infections. In return, Dr. Lewis provides his expertise as an advisor to the Creative Destructive Lab […]
New Paper: Microbiota-Derived Peptide Mimics Drive Lethal Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
Congratulations to IMPACTT Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy, as well as Education & Mentorship Lead Dr. Markus Geuking, on this recent publication! Abstract Myocarditis can develop into inflammatory cardiomyopathy through chronic stimulation of myosin heavy chain 6–specific T helper (TH)1 and TH17 cells. However, mechanisms governing the cardiotoxicity programming of heart-specific T […]
New Paper: MDiNE: A Model to Estimate Differential Co-Occurrence Networks in Microbiome Studies
Congratulations to Dr. Celia Greenwood (Platform 5 Lead), Kevin McGregor et al.MDiNE is implemented in a freely available R package: https://github.com/kevinmcgregor/mdine MDiNE: A model to estimate differential co-occurrence networks in microbiome studies – Bioinformatics. 2019 Nov 7. PMID: 31697315 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz824 Abstract We propose a new model called Microbiome Differential Network Estimation (MDiNE) to estimate network changes with respect […]
