Jeremy Paul Burton BSc, MSc, PhD, d.BA

Dr. Burton’s appreciation of the microbial ecology of humans as a student was sparked by Professors Gerald Tannock and John Tagg at University of Otago in New Zealand. In the early 2000s, he was fortunate enough to study the vaginal microbiota with then-emerging non-culture-based techniques. These showed that difficult-to-culture organisms, such as Lactobacillus iners, were frequent inhabitants of woman, but were not often detected by bacteriological culture-based methods. After spending time in Industry he returned to the Lawson Health Research Institute and the Canadian Center for Human Microbiome and Probiotics to continue working on the exciting area of translating microbial ecological research into real-world applications.