astronomy

Lori Burrows

Lori Burrows is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lori Burrows rather than just read about it. In short: Lori Lee Burrows is a Canadian microbiologist. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microbe-Surface Interactions at McMaster University.

Key takeaways

Lori Burrows belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lori Burrows to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lori Burrows from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lori Lee Burrows is a Canadian microbiologist. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microbe-Surface Interactions at McMaster University.

Early life and education Burrows completed her Bachelor of Science degree and PhD at the University of Guelph. Upon completing her degrees, she was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Fellow with Langford Inc. and a Cystic Fibrosis Canada Kinsmen Postdoctoral Fellow.

Career

University of Toronto Following her fellowships, Burrows became an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and served as a scientist in the Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute. She also served as Director of the Centre for Infection and Biomaterials Research at Toronto General Hospital. As a new faculty member, Burrows received the Connaught New Staff Matching Award and received the Dean's Fund Competition for New Staff Award. While at Sick Children's, Burrows oversaw research into Pseudomonas aeruginosa and how the bacteria attach themselves to surfaces. In 2002, she was named the winner of the McMurrich Award and received a two-year grant from the Kidney Foundation of Canada for her project, "Development of anti-microbial coatings for peritoneal catheters suitable for simultaneous exchange procedures." She then received the 2003 George Armstrong-Peters Prize as a "young investigator who has shown outstanding productivity during his/her initial period as an independent investigator as evidenced by research publications in peer reviewed journals, grants held, and students trained." In 2004, Burrows received the Elsie Winifred Crann Memorial Trust Award in Medical Research and was invited to be a member of the Grants Review panels of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health.

McMaster University Burrows left the University of Toronto in 2006 to join McMaster University as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. Upon joining the faculty, she focused her research on studying biofilms and Type IV pili (T4P) to understand how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Her laboratory also began investigating the effectiveness of glycosylated Type IV pili as components as vaccines and how they compare to other types of vaccines for tuberculosis. Starting in 2012, she served as a grant application reviewer and panel chair at McMaster's Canadian Institutes of Health Research University Delegate. In March 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The following month, she was recognized with a McMaster University Faculty Association Award for Outstanding Service. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Burrows published op-eds describing the danger of the coronavirus and encouraged Canadians to get vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. In June 2020, she was honoured with the Canadian Society of Microbiologists Murray Award for Career Achievement, the Society's highest award for researchers. The following year, she was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for her "outstanding research accomplishments, international leadership in the microbiology community and dedicated mentorship." Burrows was also appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microbe-Surface Interactions to fund her research on the superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa and how it forms antibiotic-resistant biofilms. In March 2023, Burrows was named the recipient of the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases' John G. FitzGerald Award for her research into Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

References

External links Lori Burrows publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lori Burrows

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lori Burrows claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lori Burrows before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lori Burrows ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lori Burrows

In research: Lori Burrows appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lori Burrows in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lori Burrows is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century births, Academic staff of McMaster University, Academic staff of the University of Toronto, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lori Burrows outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lori Burrows in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Lori Burrows in simple terms?

Lori Lee Burrows is a Canadian microbiologist. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microbe-Surface Interactions at McMaster University.

Why does Lori Burrows matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lori Burrows?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lori Burrows.