Omar El-Halfawy
@omarel-halfawy.bsky.social
Canada Research Chair in Chemogenomics and Antimicrobial Research @ U. of Regina | Looking for new ways to fight Superbugs! | https://www.el-halfawylab.ca
It's World AMR Awareness Week! My lab is organizing the 2nd annual event this Sat in collab with SK Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering fun, hands-on activities for all ages. Everyone is welcome! Details: www.sasksciencecentre.com/events-calen...
#WAAW2025 @uregina.bsky.social
#WAAW2025 @uregina.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's World AMR Awareness Week! My lab is organizing the 2nd annual event this Sat in collab with SK Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering fun, hands-on activities for all ages. Everyone is welcome! Details: www.sasksciencecentre.com/events-calen...
#WAAW2025 @uregina.bsky.social
#WAAW2025 @uregina.bsky.social
An early kick-off of the World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2025 events in Regina: I’ll give a public talk tomorrow night (Thurs Nov 13) at Bushwakker Brewpub’s Science Pub Series (a partnership with @uregina.bsky.social Faculty of Science). I’m looking forward to it. Everyone’s welcome!
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
An early kick-off of the World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2025 events in Regina: I’ll give a public talk tomorrow night (Thurs Nov 13) at Bushwakker Brewpub’s Science Pub Series (a partnership with @uregina.bsky.social Faculty of Science). I’m looking forward to it. Everyone’s welcome!
Thanks #CBC 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 for visiting my lab @uregina.bsky.social and highlighting our interdisciplinary collaboration with Indigenous Elders and colleagues at FNU
Tune in at ~1 hr:43 min.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Tune in at ~1 hr:43 min.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thanks #CBC 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 for visiting my lab @uregina.bsky.social and highlighting our interdisciplinary collaboration with Indigenous Elders and colleagues at FNU
Tune in at ~1 hr:43 min.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Tune in at ~1 hr:43 min.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Our #WAAW2024 event at the Sask Science Centre was a great success! Lots of participation & engagement in all activities!
Here are some agar plates from the event. Germs are everywhere (& at our fingertips), not all are harmful. Good hygiene prevents infections,⬇️antibiotic use & curb AMR.
Here are some agar plates from the event. Germs are everywhere (& at our fingertips), not all are harmful. Good hygiene prevents infections,⬇️antibiotic use & curb AMR.
November 26, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Our #WAAW2024 event at the Sask Science Centre was a great success! Lots of participation & engagement in all activities!
Here are some agar plates from the event. Germs are everywhere (& at our fingertips), not all are harmful. Good hygiene prevents infections,⬇️antibiotic use & curb AMR.
Here are some agar plates from the event. Germs are everywhere (& at our fingertips), not all are harmful. Good hygiene prevents infections,⬇️antibiotic use & curb AMR.
It's World AMR Awareness Week!
Students from the Biochem Student Association & my lab at the U of Regina are organizing an event in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering a variety of fun, hands-on activities for all ages.
Everyone is welcome!
Students from the Biochem Student Association & my lab at the U of Regina are organizing an event in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering a variety of fun, hands-on activities for all ages.
Everyone is welcome!
November 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
It's World AMR Awareness Week!
Students from the Biochem Student Association & my lab at the U of Regina are organizing an event in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering a variety of fun, hands-on activities for all ages.
Everyone is welcome!
Students from the Biochem Student Association & my lab at the U of Regina are organizing an event in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Science Centre to raise awareness of AMR while offering a variety of fun, hands-on activities for all ages.
Everyone is welcome!
Happy to share our work published at ASM Microbiology Spectrum, exploring Traditional Indigenous remedies as an untapped source of new antimicrobials under wound infection-mimetic conditions in collaboration with Elders & colleagues at First Nations Univ. Canada
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The antimicrobial potential of traditional remedies of Indigenous peoples from Canada against MRSA planktonic and biofilm bacteria in wound infection mimetic conditions | Microbiology Spectrum
We explored the antimicrobial potential of traditional Indigenous remedies against
MRSA under wound infection-mimetic conditions. We chose to tackle MRSA wound infections
because they constitute an In...
journals.asm.org
November 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Happy to share our work published at ASM Microbiology Spectrum, exploring Traditional Indigenous remedies as an untapped source of new antimicrobials under wound infection-mimetic conditions in collaboration with Elders & colleagues at First Nations Univ. Canada
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...