Tim Angus McAllister

This paper shows that culture-enriched metagenomics with hybrid assembly improves detection of low-abundance ARGs and reveals their genomic context and host associations in livestock manure digestate.

The paper identifies virulent phage genomes in bacterial assemblies, challenging the assumption that virulent phages cannot persist in bacterial cells.

This study identifies persistent cross-species transmission systems between cattle and humans as a major driver of E. coli O157:H7 epidemiology in Alberta, with a shift toward more virulent stx2a-only strains.

The paper expands the global RNA virome by five-fold, identifying new clades of RNA bacteriophages and revealing novel virus-host interactions.

This study profiles resistance determinants, virulence factors, and mobile genetic elements in 1273 Enterococcus faecium genomes from UK and Canada, showing habitat-associated gene and MGE patterns and a workflow for AMR surveillance.