Welcome to the Lab of Dr. K. Zhang

Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance

Our primary research interest is antimicrobial resistance. Our current work focuses on the molecular detection, characterization, evolution and pathogenicity of multidrug-resistance staphylococci, including Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) - encompassing hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA), the re-emerging community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), and livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA), as well as coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS).

We are actively involved in the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Antibiotic Resistant Organism (ARO) Program with a mandate to detect, prevent and control AROs in the region.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Kunyan Zhang, MD, MSc, PhD

Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases (MIID) 
Department of Medicine
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Medical Scientist
Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance (CAR)
Alberta Health Services(AHS)/Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL)

Primary Member of the Infectious Diseases Research Group (IDRG)
Primary Member of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases
Associate Member of the Microbial Research Group

Editor for Microbiology Spectrum 
Academic Editor for PLOS One 
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology 
Guest Editor for Antibiotics
Editorial Board Member of the Molecular and Cellular Probes