Fortier Lab

Congratulations to Andrew Umansky and Alice Britoh, who respectively obtained an FMSS excellence scholarship for the doctorate and the master’s degree, to continue their studies […]

The Fortier Lab welcomes Alice Britoh, who is beginning her master’s degree with us in order to continue the development of self-disinfecting antimicrobial surfaces based […]

Andrew’s mini-review entitled: “The long and sinous road to phage-based therapy of Clostridioides difficile infections” has been published online in Frontiers in Medicine. Congratulations Andrew […]

Our phage phiCD508 was characterized by cryo-EM in collaboration with two researchers from the U. Sheffield in England. This made it possible to identify important […]

A new collaborative paper entitled: “Suspension plasma sprayed copper-graphene coatings for improved antibacterial properties” has just been published in Applied Surface Science. Congrats to Jessica […]

A new collaborative publication entitled: “Chronic Diarrhea Caused by a Klebsiella oxytoca Toxin Producer Strain Following Antibiotic-Associated Hemorrhagic Colitis: Successful Treatment by Fecal Microbiota Transplant” […]

The Fortier Lab is happy to welcome Serena Tuytschaevers, a student from the Rochester Institute of Technology in the USA, who will do a 12 […]

The Fortier Lab welcomes Laurie Labonté, a 3rd year microbiology student from the Université de Sherbrooke who will do a COOP training in our lab […]

A new paper from the Fortier lab titled: “Assessment of antibacterial properties and skin irritation potential of anodized aluminum impregnated with various quaternary ammonium” has […]

Good news: our NSERC research tools and instruments proposal has been funded! $145,000 to replace our two anaerobic chambers which had reached the end of […]