Professor Jianping Xu's work with PhD student Yue Wang shows that pathogenic fungus Candida auris has an even broader diversity of drug resistance mechanisms than previously thought, and it can evolve to resist medications.
As the inaugural holder of the joint endowed chair between the faculties of Health Sciences and Social Sciences, Poinar will continue his work in and expand the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre.
The mammoth travelled through northwestern Canada and Alaska over the course of her lifetime, which ended when she encountered some of the earliest people to have traveled across the Bering Land Bridge.