Michael Shamash
I’m currently a PhD student in the Maurice Lab at McGill University. My research focused on studying the dynamics of bacteriophage-bacteria interactions in infant gut microbiota in the contexts of health and malnutrition. To do so, I use single-cell techniques combined with viral and bacterial metagenomics, as well as animal models of early life development. I also developed and maintain OnePetri, an open-source mobile application which accelerates plaque counting and common assays using computer vision and artificial intelligence.
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- Insights from the 6th Bacteriophage Therapy Summit 2024 This week we're featuring Michael Shamash's reflections on a couple of noteworthy topics covered at this year's Hanson Wade phage summit. Michael is a McGill University PhD student by day / awesome Phage Directory volunteer by night —…
- A Window into Evergreen 2021 from the Next Generation of Phage Researchers This week, we're featuring an article co-published with PHAGE Journal highlighting a selection of talks from the Evergreen 2021 conference, written by a group of phage-enthusiastic students and postdocs who attended!
This week's feature…
- Automating plaque counting with OnePetri using the power of AI — Behind the app This week, we're featuring a post by Michael Shamash, a graduate student at McGill University in Canada, who developed the new phage plaque counting app OnePetri! He takes us through the story behind the app, how it works, and what its…
- Inducing prophages in gut bacteria with common oral medications — Behind the paper This week, we're featuring a 'behind the paper' article by Steven Sutcliffe and Michael Shamash, graduate students in the Maurice Lab at McGill University. They dive into their new paper on what happens to gut phages when common oral…
