Year: 2011
Spor-Mo-Metrics – Our Movember Team
This year three of our staff joined the international ranks of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to raise money and awareness for men’s health. Our Spor-Mo-Metrics team consisting of A ”mean stache” Maharaj; Mike “the handle-bar” Saleh, and “Yor-de-cutest Mo Sista” Guardiola raised over $1000 for Prostate Canada. Congratulations to all the Movember participants and […]
Gut microbiota diversity and atopic disease: does breastfeeding play a role?
Azad MB, Becker AB, Guttman DS, Sears MR, Scott JA, Kozyrskyj AL. 2013. Gut microbiota diversity and atopic disease: does breastfeeding play a role? Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 131(1): 247-248. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2012.10.044.
WIRED whisky fungus story wins prestigious Kavli Science Journalism Award
We congratulate Adam Rogers, senior science editor at WIRED magazine, for receiving the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for best magazine article for “The Angel’s Share”, in which he recounted Dr. Scott’s work on the whisky fungus, Baudoinia compniacensis. The Kavli awards are administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), […]
First report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii’ (group 16SrVI) infecting Sauropus androgynus
P Taylor, Y Arocha-Rosete, JA Scott. 2011. First report of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii' (group 16SrVI) infecting Sauropus androgynus. New Disease Reports 24, 23. doi:10.5197/j.2044-0588.2011.024.023.
Identification of Graminella nigrifrons as a potential vector for phytoplasmas affecting Prunus and Pyrus species in Canada
Arocha-Rosete Y, Kent P, Agrawal V, Hunt D, Hamilton A, Bertaccini A, Scott JA, Crosby W, Michelutti R. 2011.Identification of Graminella nigrifrons as a potential vector for phytoplasmas affecting Prunus and Pyrus species in Canada. Canad J Plant Pathol 33: 465-474, doi: 10.1080/07060661.2011.633561.


