Research
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Latest papers
Borrelia burgdorferi lacking all cp32 prophage plasmids retains full infectivity in mice.
EMBO reports · 2025 · senior author
Adaptive immunity in Mus musculus influences the acquisition and abundance of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis ticks
Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2024
Characterization and genomic analysis of the Lyme disease spirochete bacteriophage ϕBB-1.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
Latest funding
- $20,000
75th International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Humans (INCDNCM)
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Borrelia burgdorferi lacking all cp32 prophage plasmids retains full infectivity in mice.
Hillman C, Theriault H, Dmitriev A, Hansra S, Rosa PA, Wachter J
Adaptive immunity in Mus musculus influences the acquisition and abundance of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis ticks
Cody W Koloski, Hesham Adam, Georgia Hurry, Alexandra Foley-Eby, Christopher B. Zinck, Haomiao Wei, Satyender Hansra, Jenny Wachter, Maarten Jeroen Voordouw
Characterization and genomic analysis of the Lyme disease spirochete bacteriophage ϕBB-1.
Faith DR, Kinnersley M, Brooks DM, Drecktrah D, Hall LS, Luo E, Santiago-Frangos A, Wachter J, Samuels DS, Secor PR
Characterization and genomic analysis of the Lyme disease spirochete bacteriophage ϕBB-1.
Faith DR, Kinnersley M, Brooks DM, Drecktrah D, Hall LS, Luo E, Santiago-Frangos A, Wachter J, Samuels DS, Secor PR
Variation among strains of Borrelia burgdorferi in host tissue abundance and lifetime transmission determine the population strain structure in nature
Christopher B. Zinck, Prasobh Raveendram Thampy, Eva-Maria E. Uhlemann, Hesham Adam, Jenny Wachter, Danae M. Suchan, Andrew D. S. Cameron, Ryan O. M. Rego, Dustin Brisson, Catherine Bouchard, Nicholas H. Ogden, Maarten Jeroen Voordouw
Author Correction: Polyploidy, regular patterning of genome copies, and unusual control of DNA partitioning in the Lyme disease spirochete.
Takacs CN, Wachter J, Xiang Y, Ren Z, Karaboja X, Scott M, Stoner MR, Irnov I, Jannetty N, Rosa PA, Wang X, Jacobs-Wagner C
Coupled induction of prophage and virulence factors during tick transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete.
Wachter J, Cheff B, Hillman C, Carracoi V, Dorward DW, Martens C, Barbian K, Nardone G, Renee Olano L, Kinnersley M, Secor PR, Rosa PA
Polyploidy, regular patterning of genome copies, and unusual control of DNA partitioning in the Lyme disease spirochete.
Takacs CN, Wachter J, Xiang Y, Ren Z, Karaboja X, Scott M, Stoner MR, Irnov I, Jannetty N, Rosa PA, Wang X, Jacobs-Wagner C
75th International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Humans (INCDNCM)
Principal investigators: Banerjee, Arinjay
Keywords: Bacterial; Fungal; Infectious Disease; Networking; One Health; Parasite; Prion; Trainees; Viral; Zoonosis
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
- Maarten Voordouw and Catherine Bouchard: 4 shared papers
- Maarten Voordouw and Jenny Wachter: 2 shared papers
- Catherine Bouchard and Jenny Wachter: 1 shared paper
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology
- Département de pathologie et microbiologie
- Other
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