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Joenel Alcantara
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Latest papers
Do Dose Numbers Matter?: Evaluation of Differing Infant and Toddler Meningococcal C Conjugate Vaccine Programs in Canadian Children.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2016 · senior author
PROKARYO: an illustrative and interactive computational model of the lactose operon in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
BMC bioinformatics · 2015
Prevalence and impact of Streptococcus pneumoniae in adult cystic fibrosis patients: a retrospective chart review and capsular serotyping study.
BMC pulmonary medicine · 2015
Latest funding
- $55,000
An inexpensive plant-derived multicomponent vaccine for poultry coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Do Dose Numbers Matter?: Evaluation of Differing Infant and Toddler Meningococcal C Conjugate Vaccine Programs in Canadian Children.
Bettinger JA, Vanderkooi OG, Scheifele DW, Halperin SA, Kellner JD, Schryvers A, De Serres G, Alcantara J
PROKARYO: an illustrative and interactive computational model of the lactose operon in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
Esmaeili A, Davison T, Wu A, Alcantara J, Jacob C
Prevalence and impact of Streptococcus pneumoniae in adult cystic fibrosis patients: a retrospective chart review and capsular serotyping study.
Thornton CS, Brown EL, Alcantara J, Rabin HR, Parkins MD
Effectiveness of the standard and an alternative set of Streptococcus pneumoniae multi locus sequence typing primers.
Adamiak P, Vanderkooi OG, Kellner JD, Schryvers AB, Bettinger JA, Alcantara J
Plant defense responses in opium poppy cell cultures revealed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry proteomics.
Zulak KG, Khan MF, Alcantara J, Schriemer DC, Facchini PJ
The role of phloem sieve elements and laticifers in the biosynthesis and accumulation of alkaloids in opium poppy.
Samanani N, Alcantara J, Bourgault R, Zulak KG, Facchini PJ
Sanguinarine biosynthesis is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum in cultured opium poppy cells after elicitor treatment.
Alcantara J, Bird DA, Franceschi VR, Facchini PJ
An inexpensive plant-derived multicomponent vaccine for poultry coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis
Principal investigators: Alcantara, Joenel
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Anthony Schryvers and Gaston De Serres: 1 shared paper
- Anthony Schryvers and Joenel Alcantara: 1 shared paper
- Gaston De Serres and Joenel Alcantara: 1 shared paper
- Joenel Alcantara and Christian Jacob: 1 shared paper
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
- Cumming School of Medicine
- Computer Science
- Medicine
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