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Brandon Findlay

@chemtips.bsky.social
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Because organic chemistry is hard enough. Author of chemtips.wordpress.com Associate Professor, Concordia University Lab website is findlaylab.ca

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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Looking for work? Concordia University is hiring an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR in Fungal Genomics and Biomanufacturing. www.concordia.ca/jobs/artsci/... #microsky #chemsky
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Associate Professor, Fungal Genomics and Biomanufacturing | Faculty of Arts and Science - Concordia University
The Department of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Fungal Genomics and Biomanufacturing at the rank of Associate P...
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you remove the "mab" suffix, most antibody drugs are great names for demons: Atezolizu Basilixi Drozitu Ozanezu Porgavixi
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@cenmag.bsky.social Pet spa? Really? It's been ten minutes and my wife is still giggling.
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Bacteria exposed to antibiotics become resistant, that's the core of the #AMR crisis. We figured out how to expose them to antibiotics and evolve susceptibility instead. @farhanrc.bsky.social shows how, in our latest paper. academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...
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Sequential antibiotic exposure restores antibiotic susceptibility
AbstractBackground. The prevalence of antibiotic resistance continues to rise, rendering many valuable antimicrobial drugs ineffective. Pairwise cyclic ant
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Concordia University School of Health @schoolofhealth.concordia.ca · 11/09/2025
We’re proud to showcase the work of Brandon Findlay, Associate Professor in #Chemistry & #Biochemistry at @concordia.ca whose lab is tackling one of today’s most pressing #GlobalHealth challenges: #AntimicrobialResistance. #HealthResearch #AntibioticResistance www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxV...
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Meet The Researcher: Brandon Findlay, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Antimicrobial Resistance Researcher
YouTube video by Concordia University School of Health
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Findlay lab turned 10 years old today! What an incredible journey it's been.
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Farhan RC @farhanrc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Pretty cool tool to visualize the cost of #AMR
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Forecasting the Fallout from AMR: Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens to undo decades of progress in medicine. This tool allows you to explore the potential impact of different interventions...
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New paper from the lab! Evolving bacteria in the lab is a great way to understand #AMR. But, does it matter what evolution platform you use? Yes. @farhanrc.bsky.social showed different platforms select different evolutionary paths. Read more at IJAA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microsky
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Large scale laboratory evolution uncovers clinically relevant collateral antibiotic sensitivity
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance is a critical challenge, necessitating the development of strategies to mitigate the evolution of r…
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Auclair Lab @auclairlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT: In this paper, Jacob and Suzana from the Auclair lab investigate how Salmonella Typhimurium adapts to growing on itaconate, with detailed metabolic and genomic studies. Many thanks to our collaborators at McGill and Concordia! (Details below) #chemsky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Metabolic and genomic adaptations of Salmonella Typhimurium grown on itaconate

Jacob Pierscianowski, Suzana Diaconescu-Grabari, Farhan R. Chowdhury, Andreanne Lupien, Brandon L. Findlay, Karine Auclair
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The latest work from my lab is out in @molbioevol.bsky.social! @farhanrc.bsky.social evolved bacteria right into evolutionary traps, reverting antibiotic-resistant strains back into sensitive ones. #microsky academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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Tripartite loops reverse antibiotic resistance
Abstract. Antibiotic resistance threatens to undo many of the advancements of modern medicine. A slow antibiotic development pipeline makes it impossible t
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Toxin-antitoxin systems are weird, but seem pretty effective. So where are the plasmids with 20+ toxin/antitoxin pairs? The logic that makes one pair adaptive should be true for 2 pairs, 3 pairs, n+1 pairs... #microsky
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Brandon Findlay @chemtips.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This seems like a fitting first post. My lab has just published a paper on the evolution of resistance to Octyl-tridecaptin A1! This antibiotic is tough to evolve resistance against. To crack it we had to optimize SAGE, our lab evolution system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AMR #microsky
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