VACCINE DISCOVERY @ GUELPH

Professor M.A. MONTEIRO

Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA

E-mail: monteiro@uoguelph.ca

●Click here to familiarize yourself with our research or watch videos 1, 2, 3 and 4

LATEST LAB NEWS:

►A vaccine target for Clostridium bolteae, an autism-associated bacterium

►Gut bacteria may hold key to autism

►Stellar Biotechnologies announces exclusive option to license Clostridium Difficile technology

►GMP grade anti-diarrhea vaccine being manufactured for Phase I human trial

►Our group receives funding to develop an anti-tuberculosis vaccine

Read about our most recent discoveries here:

Anti-diarrhea vaccine (Campylobacter jejuni)

●Design of Campylobacter jejuni vaccine

●Review of Campylobacter polysaccharide vaccines

●Research publication about anti-diarrhea vaccine

●news article

Clostridium difficile vaccine

●Review about Clostridium difficile carbohydrate-based vaccines

●Discovery of Clostridium difficile polysaccharides PS-I and PS-II

●Patent describing Clostridium difficile polysaccharides PS-I, PS-II and PS-III

●Discovery of glucan in Clostridium difficile spores and immunogenicity of PS-II

●Synthesis and immunogenicity of Clostridium difficile PS-II conjugate vaccines

●Synthesis of the repeating unit of Clostridium difficile polysaccharide PS-I and detection of PS-I antibodies

Vaccine against autism-associated bacteria

●Key points and goals

●Discovery of Clostridium bolteae immunogenic polysaccharide

Helicobacter pylori vaccine (gastric cancer vaccine)

●Discovery of Helicobacter pylori polysaccharides

●Review of Helicobacter pylori polysaccharides

●Research publication about gastric cancer vaccine (Helicobacter pylori)

●news article

Otitis media vaccine (middle-ear infection vaccine)

●Discovery of Alloicoccus otitidis polysaccharides

●Alloiococcus otitidis vaccine patent (otitis media)

►Research article about new conjugation strategy for vaccine development and that yields more immunogenic conjugate vaccines

►Studies about new Ruthenium Chloride complexes and the composition of the coordination precursor Ruthenium Blue

●Publications

●List of our publications on PubMed and Google

●Professional Experience

●Editorial Board Member of Carbohydrate Research

Research Team

●D. HODGINS (Research Associate)

●Z. MA (Post-Doctoral Associate)

●L. BERTOLO (Ph.D. Student)

●Y. JIAO (Ph.D. Student)

●D. MAN (M.Sc. Student)

●E. OMARI (M.Sc. Student)

●B. PEQUEGNAT (M.Sc. Student)

●O. REDKYNA (M.Sc. Student)

●M. VALLIANI (M.Sc. Student)

●G. LEE (Research Assistant)

●E. SONG (Undergrad Student)

●M. ALI (Undergrad Student)

●M. EDWARDS (Undergrad Student)

●W. VAN ROSEN (Undergrad Student)

●J. PHILIPS (Undergrad Student)

●C. COSTA (Undergrad Student)

●P. GABRYELSKI (Undergrad Student)

●E. MARTIN (Undergrad Student)

►List of Former Group Members

Former group members are working as government scientists, pharmaceutical scientists, professors and as teachers. Join our research group and be part our educational and scientific discoveries!

NEW GROUP MEMBERS and VISITORS PLEASE NOTE

►New students must complete Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) training and the Safety Training Course, and read the laboratory safety guidelines before starting laboratory work in laboratory.

►Safety glasses and lab coats are required at all times when visiting or working in laboratory.

Are you interested in joining our research group?

Please send me (monteiro@uoguelph.ca) your complete curriculum vitae and two reference letters or contacts.

If you do not have any publications and are applying for a Ph.D. position, you must submit with your application a copy of your M.Sc. thesis.

Please note that I will reply only if a suitable position is available.

Potential graduate students have to be accepted by the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry.