Category: Collaborations

Excited to be starting apramycin collaboration with Co-PI, George O'Doherty

11/18/2018

Apramycin scaffold exploration using novel glycochemistry and SAR studies to enhance activity against Acinetobacter baumannii and other multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens.

George O'Doherty

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KP Smith Speaking tomorrow at Harvard Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network as well as Broad Institute collaborator, Alejandro Pironti

10/31/2018

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Kenneth P. Smith, PhD (Kirby Lab, BIDMC) “Bringing the reference laboratory to the bench: Use of inkjet printing technology for on-demand broth microdilution susceptibility testing”
Alejandro Pironti, PhD (Earl Lab, Broad Institute) “Carbapenemase-carrying plasmid found in three different bacterial genera in a single hospital over a nine-year span”

Symposium Description

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Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow KP Smith and colleagues for acceptance of SLAS Technology Manuscript

8/5/2017

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Smith KP, Richmond DL, Brennan-Krohn T, Elliott HL, Kirby JE. Development of MAST: a Microscopy-Based Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Platform. SLAS Technology, In press.

Use of inkjet printing, advanced imaging, and machine learning to achieve reference standard, microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing readout in two hours with off-the-shelf supplies. For any antimicrobial at will.

Update: Now Published On-Line in SLAS Technology Website!

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Multi-Institutional CRE Genomics Study Published in PNAS

1/20/2017

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See: www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/01/10/1616248114.abstract. This is part of our ongoing collaboration with Ashlee Earl's group at the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA

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Selected as a SLAS 2017 Innovation Award Finalist

1/16/2017

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I was selected as a SLAS 2017 Innovation Award Finalist and will be speaking at the SLAS Annual Meeting with a presentation titled: "Inkjet Printing Technology for Facilitated At Will Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (FAST) in Under 5 Hours: Addressing the Needs of a So-Called 'Post-Antibiotic Era'.

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Excited to be starting apramycin collaboration with Co-PI, George O'Doherty

KP Smith Speaking tomorrow at Harvard Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network as well as Broad Institute collaborator, Alejandro Pironti

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow KP Smith and colleagues for acceptance of SLAS Technology Manuscript

Multi-Institutional CRE Genomics Study Published in PNAS

Selected as a SLAS 2017 Innovation Award Finalist

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Excited to be starting apramycin collaboration with Co-PI, George O'Doherty

KP Smith Speaking tomorrow at Harvard Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network as well as Broad Institute collaborator, Alejandro Pironti

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow KP Smith and colleagues for acceptance of SLAS Technology Manuscript

Multi-Institutional CRE Genomics Study Published in PNAS

﻿Selected as a SLAS 2017 Innovation Award Finalist

Kirby Lab Blog

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Selected as a SLAS 2017 Innovation Award Finalist