Research
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Latest papers
Population Genomics of a Cosmopolitan Weed Provides Insights Into Its Local Adaptation and Recent Demographic History.
Molecular ecology · 2026
The antimicrobial potential of traditional remedies of Indigenous peoples from Canada against MRSA planktonic and biofilm bacteria in wound infection mimetic conditions
Microbiology Spectrum · 2024
Aboriginal youth's perceptions of traditional and commercial tobacco in Canada.
Health promotion international · 2018 · first author
Latest funding
- $250,000
Uncovering novel biofilm-associated virulence factors and exploring Indigenous remedies to target bacterial wound infections
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Population Genomics of a Cosmopolitan Weed Provides Insights Into Its Local Adaptation and Recent Demographic History.
Lucas MS, Rosche C, Hensen I, Michalski SG, Nagy DU, Gamba D, Onstein RE, Abidkulova K, Al-Gharaibeh M, Al-Namazi AA, Babaei S, Bastida F, Brunharo C, Caillon A, Callaway RM, Clair SS, Cullen DA, Donnelly R, Ennis A, Ensing DJ, Eren Ö, Erst A, Filep R, Flory L, Frazee LJ, Gafforov Y, Gendron F, Gudžinskas Z, Guilliams CM, Hajdari A, Hao JH, Haramoto E, Ivashchenko AA, Jun L, Kane N, Kaproth MA, Kassem H, Khabbach A, Khasa DP, Koski M, Kozhevnikova M, Krigas N, Krivenko D, Lasky JR, Lekberg Y, Libiad M, Lozano V, Luo W, Makhkamov T, Marchante E, Moffat C, Moore A, Muldashev A, Nersesyan A, Olsson PLA, Oprea A, Pal R, Papikyan A, Proctor C, Prokhorov V, Ramula S, Rauschert E, Reatini B, Rixen C, Rush S, Rutten G, Saadani M, Samartza I, Selke J, Senator S, Shah MA, Sheng M, Sheriff J, Shukherdorj B, Sikkema P, Silaeva T, Suzuki SN, Thoma AE, Tian B, Tokhtar V, Träger S, Tsunoda T, Turginov O, Turner KG, Vakhlamova T, Vinogradova Y, Wagner V, Westberg L, Xiao S, Barratt CD, Durka W
The antimicrobial potential of traditional remedies of Indigenous peoples from Canada against MRSA planktonic and biofilm bacteria in wound infection mimetic conditions
Colin D. Rieger, Ahmed M. M. Soliman, Kateryna Kaplia, Nilrup Ghosh, Alexa Cervantes Lopez, Surya Arcot Venkatesan, Abraham Gildaro Guevara Flores, Matheus Antônio Filiol Belin, Florence Allen, Margaret Reynolds, Betty McKenna, Harold Lavallee, Archie Weenie, Thomas Favel, Fidji Gendron, Vincent E. Ziffle, Omar M. El-Halfawy
Aboriginal youth's perceptions of traditional and commercial tobacco in Canada.
Gendron F
Exploring and revitalizing Indigenous food networks in Saskatchewan, Canada, as a way to improve food security.
Gendron F, Hancherow A, Norton A
Uncovering novel biofilm-associated virulence factors and exploring Indigenous remedies to target bacterial wound infections
Principal investigators: El-Halfawy, Omar
Keywords: Wound infections Biofilms S. aureus Traditional Indigenous medicine Medicinal plants Chemogenomics infection-mimetic conditions Natural products drug discovery Bacteriology antibiotic resistance and microbial virulence
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Omar El-Halfawy and Fidji Gendron: 1 shared paper
- Viktoria Wagner and Fidji Gendron: 1 shared paper
- Biology Department
- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
- Biological Sciences
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