Vincent Burrus

Prix et distinctions

• (2012) Tier II CRC. Canada Research Chairs.
• (2007) Tier II CRC. Canada Research Chairs.

Financement

• Subvention. Bacterial Molecular Genetics. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2015-2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 592081. Voir plus
• Subvention. Bacterial Molecular Genetics. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 557447. Voir plus
• Subvention. Acquisition of a Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter (FACS). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 150 000 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 564832. Voir plus
• Subvention. Bacterial Molecular Genetics. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2013-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 543568. Voir plus
• Subvention. Imaging system for quantification of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 136 406 $. (2013-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 541984. Voir plus
• Subvention. Bacterial Molecular Genetics. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2012-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 512558. Voir plus
• Subvention. Anaerobic workstation/Station de travail anaérobie. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 30 562 $. (2012-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 505622. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of mobile elements bacterium. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 50 000 $. (2011-2012).
  Numéro de subvention : 476976. Voir plus
• Subvention. Bacterial Molecular Genetics. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 50 000 $. (2011-2012).
  Numéro de subvention : 478356. Voir plus
• Subvention. setCDQR regulon of the integrating and conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family: a genetic and molecular study / Étude génétique et moléculaire du régulon setCDR des ICE SXT/R391. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 400 000 $. (2011-2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 571848. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of mobile elements bacterium. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2010-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : 453163. Voir plus
• Subvention. Acquisition of year ultracentrifugal / acquisition of an ultracentrifuge. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 149 806 $. (2010-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : 472447. Voir plus
• Subvention. Cell signaling by c-diGMP with Clostridium difficile: Genetic study transcriptional and functional. Fonds de Recherche du Québec (Montreal, Canada). 168 000 $. (2010-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 138528. Voir plus
• Subvention. HPLC-chromatograph in the liquid phase. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 97 928 $. (2009-2010).
  Numéro de subvention : 442972. Voir plus
• Subvention. Automated instrument for timecourse metabolic studies of bacteria. Automated system for dynamic study of bacterial metabolism. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 126 565 $. (2009-2010).
  Numéro de subvention : 443031. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of mobile elements bacterium. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2009-2010).
  Numéro de subvention : 423858. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of mobile elements bacterium. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2008-2009).
  Numéro de subvention : 413376. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of bacterial mobile elements. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 100 000 $. (2007-2008).
  Numéro de subvention : 386198. Voir plus
• Subvention. Study of the impact of bacterial mobile elements on microbial gene expression and virulence - Impact des éléments mobiles bactériens sur l'expression des gènes et la virulence. Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 124 936 $. (2006).
  Numéro de subvention : CFI7954. Voir plus
• Subvention. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology, Evolution and Impact of Bacterial Mobile Elements - Canada Research Chair in molecular biology, evolution and impact of bacterial mobile elements. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 50 000 $. (2006-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 384385. Voir plus
• Subvention. Role and regulation of the Rec recombination system of the integrating conjugative elements SXT and R391/Rôle et régulation du système de recombinaison Rec des éléments SXT et R391. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 213 000 $. (2006-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : 457641. Voir plus
• Subvention. Microplate reader. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 11 883 $. (2006-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 326060. Voir plus

Publications

Articles

• Annie Turcotte, Dominic Poulin-Laprade, Linda Saucier, Joanie Lemieux, Nathalie Gagnon, Sylvain Fournaise, Frédéric Guay, Vincent Burrus, Guylaine Talbot. (2026). Impact of Pediococcus acidilactici and tylvalosin on porcine Enterobacterales abundance, antimicrobial resistance, and conjugative potential. Journal of Applied Microbiology. DOI
• Andrew S. Lang, Alison Buchan, Vincent Burrus. (2025). Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements. Nature Reviews Microbiology. DOI
• Nicolas Rivard, Malika Humbert, Kévin T. Huguet, Aurélien Fauconnier, César Pérez Bucio, Eve Quirion, Vincent Burrus. (2024). Surface exclusion of IncC conjugative plasmids and their relatives. PLOS Genetics. DOI
• Bioteau Audrey, Nicolas Cellier, Frédérique White, Pierre-Étienne Jacques, Vincent Burrus. (2023). A systematic approach to classify and characterize genomic islands driven by conjugative mobility using protein signatures. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI
• Lingxian Yi, Romain Durand, Frédéric Grenier, Jun Yang, Kaiyang Yu, Vincent Burrus, Jian-Hua Liu. (2022). PixR, a Novel Activator of Conjugative Transfer of IncX4 Resistance Plasmids, Mitigates the Fitness Cost of mcr-1 Carriage in Escherichia coli. mBio. DOI
• Kevin Neil, Nancy Allard, Patricia Roy, Frédéric Grenier, Alfredo Menendez, Vincent Burrus, Sébastien Rodrigue. (2021). High‐efficiency delivery of CRISPR‐Cas9 by engineered probiotics enables precise microbiome editing. Molecular Systems Biology. DOI
• Romain Durand, Kévin T Huguet, Nicolas Rivard, Nicolas Carraro, Sébastien Rodrigue, Vincent Burrus. (2021). Crucial role of Salmonella genomic island 1 master activator in the parasitism of IncC plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI
• Romain Durand, Florence Deschênes, Vincent Burrus. (2021). Genomic islands targeting dusA in Vibrio species are distantly related to Salmonella Genomic Island 1 and mobilizable by IncC conjugative plasmids. PLOS Genetics. DOI
• Jun Yang, Hai-Hong Wang, Yaoyao Lu, Ling-Xian Yi, Yinyue Deng, Luchao Lv, Vincent Burrus, Jian-Hua Liu. (2021). A ProQ/FinO family protein involved in plasmid copy number control favours fitness of bacteria carrying mcr-1-bearing IncI2 plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI
• Kevin Neil, Nancy Allard, Frédéric Grenier, Vincent Burrus, Sébastien Rodrigue. (2020). Highly efficient gene transfer in the mouse gut microbiota is enabled by the Incl2 conjugative plasmid TP114. Communications Biology. DOI
• David Roy, Kevin T Huguet, Frédéric Grenier, Vincent Burrus. (2020). IncC conjugative plasmids and SXT/R391 elements repair double-strand breaks caused by CRISPR–Cas during conjugation. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI
• Nicolas Rivard, Rita R. Colwell, Vincent Burrus. (2020). Antibiotic Resistance in Vibrio cholerae: Mechanistic Insights from IncC Plasmid-Mediated Dissemination of a Novel Family of Genomic Islands Inserted at trmE. mSphere. DOI
• Kévin T. Huguet, Nicolas Rivard, Daniel Garneau, Jason Palanee, Vincent Burrus. (2020). Replication of the Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) triggered by helper IncC conjugative plasmids promotes incompatibility and plasmid loss. PLOS Genetics. DOI
• Ignacio Baquedano, Mario Mencía, Alba Blesa, Vincent Burrus, José Berenguerfi. (2020). ICETh1 and ICETh2, two interdependent mobile genetic elements in Thermus thermophilus transjugation. Environmental Microbiology. DOI
• Malika Humbert, Kévin T. Huguet, Frédéric Coulombe, Vincent Burrus. (2019). Entry Exclusion of Conjugative Plasmids of the IncA, IncC, and Related Untyped Incompatibility Groups. Journal of Bacteriology. DOI
• Frédéric Lécuyer, Jean-Sébastien Bourassa, Martin Gélinas, Vincent Charron-Lamoureux, Vincent Burrus, Pascale B. Beauregard. (2018). Biofilm Formation Drives Transfer of the Conjugative Element ICE Bs1 in Bacillus subtilis. mSphere. DOI
• Audrey Bioteau, Romain Durand, Vincent Burrus. (2018). Redefinition and Unification of the SXT/R391 Family of Integrative and Conjugative Elements. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. DOI
• Audrey Bioteau, Kévin Huguet, Vincent Burrus, Swapan Banerjee. (2018). Genome Sequence of a Canadian Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolate with Unique Mobilizing Capacity. Genome Announcements. DOI
• Burrus V. (2017). Mechanisms of stabilization of integrative and conjugative elements. DOI
• Nicolas Carraro, Romain Durand, Nicolas Rivard, Charley Anquetil, Catherine Barrette, Malika Humbert, Vincent Burrus. (2017). Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) reshapes the mating apparatus of IncC conjugative plasmids to promote self-propagation. PLOS Genetics. DOI
• Carraro N, Rivard N, Burrus V, Ceccarelli D. (2017). Mobilizable genomic islands, different strategies for the dissemination of multidrug resistance and other adaptive traits. DOI
• Guérin F, Isnard C, Bucquet F, Fines-Guyon M, Giard JC, Burrus V, Cattoir V. (2016). Novel chromosome-encoded erm(47) determinant responsible for constitutive MLSB resistance in Helcococcus kunzii.
• Carraro N, Rivard N, Ceccarelli D, Colwell RR, Burrus V. (2016). IncA/C Conjugative Plasmids Mobilize a New Family of Multidrug Resistance Islands in Clinical Vibrio cholerae Non-O1/Non-O139 Isolates from Haiti. DOI
• Poulin-Laprade D, Burrus V. (2015). A λ Cro-Like Repressor Is Essential for the Induction of Conjugative Transfer of SXT/R391 Elements in Response to DNA Damage. DOI
• Bordeleau E, Burrus V. (2015). Cyclic-di-GMP signaling in the Gram-positive pathogen Clostridium difficile. DOI
• Jouogo Noumsi C, Pourhassan N, Darnajoux R, Deicke M, Wichard T, Burrus V, Bellenger JP. (2015). Effect of organic matter on nitrogenase metal cofactors homeostasis in Azotobacter vinelandii under diazotrophic conditions.
• Allard N, Garneau D, Poulin-Laprade D, Burrus V, Brzezinski R, Roy S. (2015). A diaminopimelic acid auxotrophic Escherichia coli donor provides improved counterselection following intergeneric conjugation with actinomycetes. DOI
• Chapleau M, Guertin JF, Farrokhi A, Lerat S, Burrus V, Beaulieu C. (2015). Identification of genetic and environmental factors stimulating excision from Streptomyces scabiei chromosome of the toxicogenic region responsible for pathogenicity.
• Carraro N, Poulin D, Burrus V. (2015). Replication and Active Partition of Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs) of the SXT/R391 Family: The Line between ICEs and Conjugative Plasmids Is Getting Thinner. DOI
• Bordeleau E, Purcell EB, Lafontaine DA, Fortier LC, Tamayo R, Burrus V. (2015). Cyclic di-GMP riboswitch-regulated type IV pili contribute to aggregation of Clostridium difficile. DOI
• Poulin-Laprade D, Matteau D, Jacques PÉ, Rodrigue S, Burrus V. (2015). Transfer activation of SXT/R391 integrative and conjugative elements: unraveling the SetCD regulon. DOI
• Neugebauer T, Bordeleau E, Burrus V, Brzezinski R. (2015). DNA Data Visualization (DDV): Software for Generating Web-Based Interfaces Supporting Navigation and Analysis of DNA Sequence Data of Entire Genomes. DOI
• Poulin-Laprade D, Burrus V. (2015). Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay Using Radiolabeled DNA Probes. DOI
• Purcell EB, McKee RW, Bordeleau E, Burrus V, Tamayo R. (2015). Regulation of Type IV Pili Contributes to Surface Behaviors of Historical and Epidemic Strains of Clostridium difficile. DOI
• Carraro N, Burrus V. (2015). The dualistic nature of integrative and conjugative elements.
• Poulin-Laprade D, Carraro N, Burrus V. (2015). The extended regulatory networks of SXT/R391 integrative and conjugative elements and IncA/C conjugative plasmids. DOI
• Carraro N, Matteau D, Burrus V, Rodrigue S. (2015). Unraveling the regulatory network of IncA/C plasmid mobilization: When genomic islands hijack conjugative elements.
• Carraro N, Burrus V. (2014). Biology of Three ICE Families: SXT/R391, ICEBs1, and ICESt1/ICESt3. DOI
• Carraro N, Matteau D, Luo P, Rodrigue S, Burrus V. (2014). The master activator of IncA/C conjugative plasmids stimulates genomic islands and multidrug resistance dissemination. DOI
• Carraro N, Sauvé M, Matteau D, Lauzon G, Rodrigue S, Burrus V. (2014). Development of pVCR94ΔX from Vibrio cholerae, a prototype for studying multidrug resistant IncA/C conjugative plasmids. DOI
• Garriss G, Poulin-Laprade D, Burrus V. (2013). DNA-damaging agents induce the RecA-independent homologous recombination functions of integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family. DOI
• Daccord A, Ceccarelli D, Rodrigue S, Burrus V. (2013). Comparative analysis of mobilizable genomic islands. DOI
• Daccord A, Mursell M, Poulin-Laprade D, Burrus V. (2012). Dynamics of the SetCD-regulated integration and excision of genomic islands mobilized by integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family. DOI
• Bordeleau E, Ghinet MG, Burrus V. (2012). Diversity of integrating conjugative elements in actinobacteria: Coexistence of two mechanistically different DNA-translocation systems. DOI
• Ceccarelli D, Spagnoletti M, Bacciu D, Danin-Poleg Y, Mendiratta DK, Kashi Y, Cappuccinelli P, Burrus V, Colombo MM. (2011). ICEVchInd5 is prevalent in epidemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains isolated in India. DOI
• Ceccarelli D, Spagnoletti M, Cappuccinelli P, Burrus V, Colombo MM. (2011). Origin of Vibrio cholerae in Haiti. DOI
• Bordeleau E, Fortier LC, Malouin F, Burrus V. (2011). c-di-GMP turn-over in Clostridium difficile is controlled by a plethora of diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases. DOI
• Ghinet MG, Bordeleau E, Beaudin J, Brzezinski R, Roy S, Burrus V. (2011). Uncovering the prevalence and diversity of integrating conjugative elements in actinobacteria. DOI
• Daccord A, Ceccarelli D, Burrus V. (2010). Integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family trigger the excision and drive the mobilization of a new class of Vibrio genomic islands. DOI
• Bordeleau E, Brouillette E, Robichaud N, Burrus V. (2010). Beyond antibiotic resistance: integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family that encode novel diguanylate cyclases participate to c-di-GMP signalling in Vibrio cholerae. DOI
• Wozniak RA, Fouts DE, Spagnoletti M, Colombo MM, Ceccarelli D, Garriss G, Déry C, Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2009). Comparative ICE genomics: insights into the evolution of the SXT/R391 family of ICEs. DOI
• Garriss G, Waldor MK, Burrus V. (2009). Mobile antibiotic resistance encoding elements promote their own diversity. DOI
• Ceccarelli D, Daccord A, René M, Burrus V. (2008). Identification of the origin of transfer (oriT) and a new gene required for mobilization of the SXT/R391 family of integrating conjugative elements. DOI
• Osorio CR, Marrero J, Wozniak RA, Lemos ML, Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2008). Genomic and functional analysis of ICEPdaSpa1, a fish-pathogen-derived SXT-related integrating conjugative element that can mobilize a virulence plasmid. DOI
• McLeod SM, Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2006). Requirement for Vibrio cholerae integration host factor in conjugative DNA transfer. DOI
• Burrus V, Marrero J, Waldor MK. (2006). The current ICE age: biology and evolution of SXT-related integrating conjugative elements. DOI
• Burrus V, Quezada-Calvillo R, Marrero J, Waldor MK. (2006). SXT-related integrating conjugative element in New World Vibrio cholerae. DOI
• Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2004). Shaping bacterial genomes with integrative and conjugative elements. DOI
• Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2004). Formation of SXT tandem arrays and SXT-R391 hybrids. DOI
• Pavlovic G, Burrus V, Gintz B, Decaris B, Guédon G. (2004). Evolution of genomic islands by deletion and tandem accretion by site-specific recombination: ICESt1-related elements from Streptococcus thermophilus. DOI
• Burrus V, Waldor MK. (2003). Control of SXT integration and excision. DOI
• Beaber JW, Burrus V, Hochhut B, Waldor MK. (2002). Comparison of SXT and R391, two conjugative integrating elements: definition of a genetic backbone for the mobilization of resistance determinants. DOI
• Burrus V, Pavlovic G, Decaris B, Guédon G. (2002). Conjugative transposons: the tip of the iceberg. DOI
• Burrus V, Pavlovic G, Decaris B, Guédon G. (2002). The ICESt1 element of Streptococcus thermophilus belongs to a large family of integrative and conjugative elements that exchange modules and change their specificity of integration. DOI
• Burrus V, Bontemps C, Decaris B, Guédon G. (2001). Characterization of a novel type II restriction-modification system, Sth368I, encoded by the integrative element ICESt1 of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368. DOI
• Burrus V, Roussel Y, Decaris B, Guédon G. (2000). Characterization of a novel integrative element, ICESt1, in the lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus. DOI

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS

• MCB106 - Laboratoire de microbiologie. (2025-2026). (1CR).
• MCB606 - Évolution et adaptations microbiennes. (2024-2026). (2CR).
• MCB610 - Microbiologie des eaux et milieux extrêmes. (2025-2026). (2CR).
• MCB712 - Antibiotiques et résistance microbienne. (2023-2026). (2CR).
• TSB103 - Techniques en biologie - Travaux pratiques. (2024-2026). (1CR).
• BIM600 - Projets d'intégration en biologie moléculaire. (2025). (3CR).
• MCB101 - Microbiologie - Travaux pratiques. (2024). (1CR).
• MCB604 - Microbiologie des eaux et milieux extrêmes. (2023-2024). (2CR).
• MCB532 - Évolution et adaptations microbiennes. (2023). (2CR).
• PBI700 - Séminaire de recherche I. (2023). (1CR).

Activités professionnelles

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Committee member RTI - Genes, Cells and Molecules. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (2018-2021).
• Canadian Society of Microbiologists. Co-chair of the local organizing committee of the 69th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (2018-2019).

Divers

• Lingxian Yi, Romain Durand, Frédéric Grenier, Jun Yang, Kaiyang Yu, Vincent Burrus, Jian-Hua Liu. (2021). PixR, a novel activator of conjugative transfer of IncX4 resistance plasmids, mitigates the fitness cost of mcr-1 carriage in Escherichia coli.
• Romain Durand, Florence Deschênes, Vincent Burrus. (2021). Genomic islands targeting dusA in Vibrio species are distantly related to Salmonella Genomic Island 1 and mobilizable by IncC conjugative plasmids.