Jeremy Burton is the Miriam Burnett Chair in Urological Sciences and is the Deputy Director of the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics based in the Lawson Health Research Institute. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery and cross appointed to the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Western University. 

His 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 undertaking studies with the Streptococcus salivarius probiotics for upper-respiratory-tract applications, returned to the Lawson Health Research Institute and the Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics to continue working on the exciting area of translating microbial ecological research into real-world applications.