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Fiona S. L. Brinkman

Fiona S. L. Brinkman

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Genetics

D-Index
70
Citations
37006
World Ranking
2231
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Fiona S. L. Brinkman is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology, infectious diseases, genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology.

The primary topics addressed in their work include genomics and phylogenetic studies, gut microbiota and health, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and the application of machine learning in bioinformatics.

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Geoffrey L. Winsor, Padmaja Subbarao, Baofeng Jia, Meghan B. Azad, and Theo J. Moraes.

Their publication record features papers in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbial Genomics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nucleic Acids Research, and The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Selected recent papers include:

  • CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Decreasing antibiotic use, the gut microbiota, and asthma incidence in children: evidence from population-based and prospective cohort studies, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Metagenome-assembled genome binning methods with short reads disproportionately fail for plasmids and genomic Islands, 2020, Microbial Genomics
  • Bacterial cyclic diguanylate signaling networks sense temperature, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Composition and Associations of the Infant Gut Fungal Microbiota with Environmental Factors and Childhood Allergic Outcomes, 2021, mBio

Brinkman's scientific contributions often intersect with studies analyzing antibiotic resistance, gut microbiota, and microbial genomics, leveraging bioinformatics tools and machine learning techniques in microbial and genetic research.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2018, under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, an opportunistic pathogen.

    C. K. Stover;X. Q. Pham;A. L. Erwin;S. D. Mizoguchi

  • PSORTb 3.0

    Nancy Y. Yu;James R. Wagner;Matthew R. Laird;Gabor Melli

  • CARD 2017: expansion and model-centric curation of the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database

    Baofeng Jia;Amogelang R. Raphenya;Brian P. Alcock;Nicholas Waglechner

  • CARD 2020: antibiotic resistome surveillance with the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database

    Brian P. Alcock;Amogelang R. Raphenya;Tammy T. Y. Lau;Kara K. Tsang

  • The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

  • InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation

    Karin Breuer;Amir K. Foroushani;Matthew R. Laird;Carol Chen

  • IslandViewer 4: expanded prediction of genomic islands for larger-scale datasets.

    Claire Bertelli;Matthew R. Laird;Kelly P. Williams;Britney Y. Lau

  • Enhanced annotations and features for comparing thousands of Pseudomonas genomes in the Pseudomonas genome database

    Geoffrey L. Winsor;Emma J. Griffiths;Raymond Lo;Bhavjinder K. Dhillon

  • PSORTb v.2.0: Expanded prediction of bacterial protein subcellular localization and insights gained from comparative proteome analysis

    J. L. Gardy;M. R. Laird;F. Chen;S. Rey

  • Whole-genome sequencing and social-network analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak.

    Jennifer L Gardy;James C Johnston;Shannan J Ho Sui;Victoria J Cook

  • The complete genome of Rhodococcus sp. RHA1 provides insights into a catabolic powerhouse

    Michael P. McLeod;René L. Warren;William W. L. Hsiao;Naoto Araki

  • Pseudomonas Genome Database: improved comparative analysis and population genomics capability for Pseudomonas genomes

    Geoffrey L. Winsor;David K. W. Lam;Leanne Fleming;Raymond Lo

  • Modulation of the TLR-Mediated Inflammatory Response by the Endogenous Human Host Defense Peptide LL-37

    Neeloffer Mookherjee;Kelly L. Brown;Dawn M. E. Bowdish;Silvana Doria

  • Protein interaction data curation: the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium

    Sandra Orchard;Samuel Kerrien;Sara Abbani;Bruno Aranda

  • PSORT-B: Improving protein subcellular localization prediction for Gram-negative bacteria.

    Jennifer L. Gardy;Cory Spencer;Ke Wang;Martin Ester

  • IslandViewer: an integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands.

    Morgan G. I. Langille;Fiona S. L. Brinkman

  • InnateDB: facilitating systems-level analyses of the mammalian innate immune response

    David J Lynn;David J Lynn;Geoffrey L Winsor;Calvin Chan;Nicolas Richard

  • Newly introduced genomic prophage islands are critical determinants of in vivo competitiveness in the Liverpool Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Craig Winstanley;Morgan G.I. Langille;Joanne L. Fothergill;Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj

  • Function of pseudomonas porins in uptake and efflux.

    Robert E W Hancock;Fiona S L Brinkman

  • IslandPath: aiding detection of genomic islands in prokaryotes.

    William W. L. Hsiao;Ivan Wan;Steven J. Jones;Fiona S. L. Brinkman

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. W. Hancock
Robert E. W. Hancock University of British Columbia
Gary Van Domselaar
Gary Van Domselaar Public Health Agency of Canada
Robert G. Beiko
Robert G. Beiko Dalhousie University
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
B. Brett Finlay
B. Brett Finlay University of British Columbia
Karsten Hokamp
Karsten Hokamp Trinity College Dublin
Lorne A. Babiuk
Lorne A. Babiuk University of Alberta
Andrew G. McArthur
Andrew G. McArthur McMaster University
Roger C. Levesque
Roger C. Levesque Université Laval
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute

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