UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Celebrating the Career and Retirement of Karen Smith
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community celebrate the career and retirement of lecturer Karen Smith.
Welcome Dr. Sreeparna Vappala to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology!
We are excited to welcome lecturer Dr. Sreeparna Vappala to our teaching faculty.
Bacterial fingerprints in soil show where copper is buried
Sean Crowe and a team of researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil.
Fighting Fungal Disease in Corn
Researchers in the Kronstad lab are investigating how the fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis drains the health from its host, paving the way for new crop protection strategies.
Brett Finlay Receives John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award
Brett Finlay has been awarded the 2024 John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award, recognizing his outstanding mentorship of the trainees in his lab.
MBIM Researchers Present at PacTB 2025
Trainees Julia Kleetz and Leah Rankine-Wilson share how their research advances therapeutic discovery for tuberculosis.
Seminar
13
Jun
Seminar: Drs. Justin and Erica Sonnenburg
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Gut Microbiome Industrialization and the Rise of Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Seminar
10
Jun
Exit Seminar- Katherine Donald
PhD Candidate, Finlay Lab
The role of breastmilk IgA in infant gut microbiota and immune development
Seminar
3
Jun
Exit Seminar- Christopher Lee
PhD Candidate, Kronstad Lab
Regulation and recognition of the polysaccharide capsule from Cryptococcus neoformans
Seminar
30
May
Joint EDI Seminar: Dr. Myrle Ballard
CRC T2 in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability Science Director of…
Join us for a joint EDI Seminar!
Event
27
May
MBIM Grad Tea- Class of 2025
Join us to celebrate the MBIM & BIOT Graduating Class of 2025. Friends and family welcome.
Hancock Lab
A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction...
Mohn & Eltis Labs
Characterization of a two-component kinase that initiates the bacterial catabolism...
Kronstad Lab
The interplay between electron transport chain function and iron regulatory factors..