Allison Guitor, B.Sc.

Position: Ph.D. Candidate

About:

Allison joined the Wright Lab in the Fall of 2016 after completing a Bachelor of Science at the University of Waterloo. Outside of the lab she enjoys playing soccer, reading, baking and trying new recipes.

Research Interests:

One of Allison's projects involves high-throughput cell-based screening of natural products to discover novel inhibitors of an aminoglycoside resistance mechanism and restore antibiotic activity against resistant pathogens. Allison is also developing a targeted capture approach to sequence antibiotic resistance genes from a variety of clinical and environmental samples for resistome analysis.

Publications:

Featured

Aug 26, 2022

Capturing the antibiotic resistome of preterm infants reveals new benefits of probiotic supplementation.

Aug 26, 2022

Authors: Guitor AK, Yousuf EI, Raphenya AR, Hutton EK, Morrison KM, McArthur AG, Wright GD, Stearns JC.
Reference: Microbiome.
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01327-7.
PMID: PMC9414150

Aug 26, 2022

Apr 27, 2022

Phylogeny-Informed Synthetic Biology Reveals Unprecedented Structural Novelty in Type V Glycopeptide Antibiotics

Apr 27, 2022

Authors: Min Xu, Wenliang Wang, Nicholas Waglechner, Elizabeth J. Culp, Allison K. Guitor, and Gerard D. Wright.
Reference: ACS Central Science
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c01389.
PMID:

Apr 27, 2022

Apr 7, 2021

A Screen of Natural Product Extracts Identifies Moenomycin as a Potent Antigonococcal Agent

Apr 7, 2021

Authors: Yarlagadda V, Rao VN, Kaur M, Guitor AK, Wright GD.
Reference: ACS Infect Dis.
DOI: doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00040.
PMID: 33826296.

Apr 7, 2021

Oct 16, 2020

GPAHex-A synthetic biology platform for Type IV-V glycopeptide antibiotic production and discovery

Oct 16, 2020

Authors: Xu M, Wang W, Waglechner N, Culp EJ, Guitor AK, Wright GD.
Reference: Nat Commun.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19138-5
PMID: 33067466

Oct 16, 2020

Dec 20, 2019

Capturing the Resistome: a Targeted Capture Method To Reveal Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Metagenomes

Dec 20, 2019

Authors: Guitor AK, Raphenya AR, Klunk J, Kuch M, Alcock B, Surette MG, McArthur AG, Poinar HN and Wright GD
Reference: Antimicrob Agents Chemother.
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01324-19
PMID: 31611361

Dec 20, 2019

Nov 1, 2018

Antimicrobial Resistance and Respiratory Infections

Nov 1, 2018

Authors: Guitor AK, Wright GD
Reference: Chest
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.06.019
PMID: 29959904

Nov 1, 2018

In the News

Featured

Apr 24, 2019

Wright Lab “AMR Resistance Fighters” Receive CIHR Research Awards

Apr 24, 2019

Congratulations to three trainees from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery on receiving prestigious Research Awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Apr 24, 2019

Jul 20, 2018

Wright & Guitor Study ‘Antimicrobial Resistance and Respiratory Infections’

Jul 20, 2018

In their review entitled “Antimicrobial Resistance and Respiratory Infections“, IIDR’s Dr. Gerry Wright and PhD student Allison Guitor discuss the many ways in which respiratory bacteria can avoid or overcome antibiotics, while highlighting other important aspects of antimicrobial resistance.

Source: McMaster IIDR

Jul 20, 2018

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