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Fiona Brinkman | Fiona Brinkman Laboratory

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Microbe-loving bioinformatics and genomics research lab, aiming to better control infectious diseases in a sustainable way. Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. BSc, University of Waterloo. PhD, University of Ottawa. Office: SSB 7110, in the South Science Building. For mailing address and other contact information). Additional Selected Current Appointments:. Co-Lead of the IRIDA (Integrated Rapid Infectious Disease Analysis) Project. Member, Genome Canada Board of Directors. Michael Smith Fo...

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): December 2014

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Sunday, 14 December 2014. Lots of photos for this one.probably too many, but didn't know what else to do with them! Also known as the “dwarf tapeworm”. Is a cosmopolitan parasite as it has worldwide distribution. Hymenolepiasis, or Dwarf Tapeworm Infection. Is often carried by the common house mouse. While it is more frequently isolated from children, adults are also quite susceptible. Acciden...

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): January 2015

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Saturday, 24 January 2015. Hyphomycetes) –Black yeasts. Happy New Years, 2015 - Another post with far too many photos. Preferred habitat is on the aerial portions of plants, particularly the leaves. It may reside there as a saprobe (lives on dead organic matter). But may be a phytopathogen on susceptible species of plants. It is a cosmopolitan fungus (found just about everywhere). On SAB -prog...

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): May 2015

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Tuesday, 26 May 2015. As of this blog post, most textbooks still list Apophysomyces elegans. As the sole species in this genus. Have demonstrated a high variability among the 5.8S rRNA gene sequences of clinical strains of A.elegans. This study suggests that A.elegans. Is actually a complex composed of several (three) newly proposed species. They have proposed the species names A.ossiformis.

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): January 2014

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Saturday, 25 January 2014. Vancomycin Dependant Enterococcus (VDE). Vancomycin Dependant Enterococcus (VDE). Explanation of Enterococcus faecium’s. Curious response to the antibiotic Vancomycin. So you try to determine the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Vancomycin against an Enterococcus. Response to a Vancomycin E-test. Mueller-Hinton Agar - 24 hours,. So what is happening here?

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): Penicillium citrinum

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Is a commonly occurring filamentous fungus with worldwide distribution. It has been isolated from a variety of sources including soils, decaying vegetation, foodstuffs (beans, coffee, cereals and spices) as well as a variety of indoor environments. Their contribution to the disease process may be secondary an additional underlying illness. Dextrose agar (SAB) at 30ᵒC.

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): April 2014

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Friday, 18 April 2014. Note: I'm always hesitant in adding posts of organisms where the photos don't clearly show the features or structures described. Such is the case here -fine detail is not evident, but here are the photos for whatever they are worth. Geographic & Human Habitats:. In nature, Chilomastix mesnili. There it feeds on intestinal bacteria and debris. The nucleus is generally not...

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): June 2014

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Saturday, 14 June 2014. Revisited (Kind Of) -A Black Mould. This post is a bit of a revisitation to the fungus Cladosporium. As I previously included the genera in a previous post on Cladophialophoraspecies. You can compare the two more thoroughly by checking out my previous post by clicking here. Species are cosmopolitan saprophytic fungi found in soil, on plant debris and leaf surfaces.

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You?): July 2014

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Fun With Microbiology (What's Buggin' You? Short descriptions and photographs of some photogenic microorganisms. Thursday, 3 July 2014. Compare this species to Scopularis brevicaulis. A cosmopolitan fungus (found just about everywhere), particularly in soil and in household dust. Encountered in the laboratory as a possible contaminant, they must be distinguished from more pathogenic fungi. Is a moderately rapid grower, usually maturing within about 5 days. The texture is described as velvety to powdery.