Sean Booth

Sean Booth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Manitoba, within the Faculty of Science. His research focuses on antagonistic interactions between bacteria, particularly their use of molecular weapons like antibiotics and bacteriocins. He investigates how ecological, physiological, and evolutionary factors influence bacterial competition in biofilms using mathematical modeling, bioinformatics, and experimental approaches.

Dr. Booth’s laboratory, the Bacterial Ecophysiology Lab, explores questions such as why bacteria deploy diverse weapons and how their motility and metabolic states impact weapon efficacy. He is actively recruiting undergraduate researchers and graduate students (MSc/PhD) to join his team.

No specific scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His work integrates computational and experimental methods to understand weapon-mediated competition dynamics.