Biography: Lori Burrows (B.Sc. in Microbiology 1988 and Ph.D. in Bacterial Genetics 1993) was an NSERC Industrial Fellow (1993-1995) with Langford Inc., a veterinary vaccine-manufacturing subsidiary of American Cyanamid, and a Cystic Fibrosis Canada Kinsmen Postdoctoral Fellow (1995-1999) with Dr. Joe Lam, U. of Guelph, working on lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In 1999, she joined the Dept. of Surgery at the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor & Scientist in the Hospital for Sick Children’s Research Institute, and Director of the Centre for Infection and Biomaterials Research at the University Health Network. In 2006, she joined McMaster University, where she is Professor and Associate Chair, Research, in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. She held Premier’s Research Excellence and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator awards, and serves as Chair of the CIHR Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Peer Review Panel (2010-present). She is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Bacteriology and the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and in 2017 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Her research interests include type IV pili; peptidoglycan metabolism and antibiotic resistance; and biofilm formation and its manipulation using small molecules. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is funded by CIHR, NSERC, ORF, and industrial partnerships.