Megan Tu, B.h.Sc.

Position: Ph.D. Candidate

About: Megan completed her B.H.Sc in the Integrated Science program at McMaster University. She joined the Brown lab in 2020 and is currently completing her PhD. Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking, drawing and playing board games.

Research Interests: Megan’s research interest lies in understanding how bacterial metabolism changes with the development of antibiotic resistance. 

Publications:

Featured
CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

Authors: Alcock BP, Huynh W … Bhando B, Carfrae LA, Farha MA, French S, Gordzevich R, Rachwalski K, Tu MM … Brown ED … McArthur AG.

Reference: Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 January 6; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac920

Preclinical Development of Pentamidine Analogs Identifies a Potent and Nontoxic Antibiotic Adjuvant

Authors: MacNair CR, Farha MA, Serrano-Wu MH, Lee KK, Hubbard B, Côté JP, Carfrae LA, Tu MM, Gaulin JL, Hunt DK, Hung DT, Brown ED.

Reference: ACS Infect. Dis. 2022 March 23; doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00482