Bill Anderson

Research Interests:
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Pathogen detection, disinfection and sterilization using UV light
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Photochemistry, photocatalytic applications to water and air treatment
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Environmental engineering
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Biotechnology, biofiltration
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Metal nanoparticle synthesis and applications
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Process modelling and simulation
Hassan Baaj

Research Interests:
- Characterization And Modelling Of The Behaviour Of Construction Materials
- Smart Pavement Materials And Structures
- Mechanistic Pavement Design Methods
- Optimization Of The Use Of Recycled Materials In Sustainable Infrastructure System
- Sustainable Development
- Life Cycle Analysis
Trevor Charles
Research Interests:
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Bacterial molecular genetics
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Functional genomics, metagenomics, genome engineering
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Metabolic functions
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Synthetic biology, bioplastics and bioproducts
[Biology News] December 21, 2016 "Waterloo biologist part of a research collaboration creating new genetic toolbox"
[Royal Canadian Institute Lecture] November 8, 2015 "Genome Engineering. Should we do it? (Can we afford not to?)"
[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Mining microbial metagenomes"
[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Mining metagenomes for bioplastics and other useful bioproducts"
[CBB researcher story] November 29, 2012 "Breaking Ground in Open Resource Metagenomics"
George Dixon

Research Interests:
- Effects of toxic chemicals, including metals and oilsands process water, on aquatic organisms, principally fish.
- Biotic modifying factors of toxicity.
- Development of methods for environmental effects monitoring.
- Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of contaminant levels in fish.
[Waterloo Stories] March 21, 2013 "A river runs through it: Keeping an eye on the Alberta oil sands"
Peter Huck

Research Interests:
- Robustness of water supply systems, with a focus on treatment
- Facilitating application of newer treatment technologies (e.g. UV disinfection and membranes), including integration into existing facilities
- Identification and removal of trace chemical contaminants (pharmaceuticals & endocrine disrupters)
- Known and emerging pathogens, and their removal/inactivation by treatment processes
- Biodegradation
NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment [NSERC Profile]
[Waterloo Stories] March 14, 2013 "Protecting our drinking water for 20 years"
Laura Hug

Research Interests:
- Microbial diversity and function at contaminated sites (primarily municipal landfills)
- DNA, RNA, and protein (meta-omics) sequences
- Environment remediation
- Impacts of human activities on the environment
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology [Canada Research Chair Profile]
[YouTube] October 23, 2015 "Piecing life together - microbial diversity and function through meta-omic analyses"
[Waterloo Stories] April 12, 2016 "New tree of life may hold clues to cleaning up pollution"
Subha Kalyaanamoorthy

Research Interests:
- Design/discovery of potential therapeutics to target various diseases
- Understanding the structure and pharmacology of membrane proteins
- Development of in silico methods/tools for sequence, structure and functional analysis
- Inferring the structure-function evolution of proteins
- Protein engineering for biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications
[American Chemical Society] January 23, 2012 "Exploring Inhibitor Release Pathways in Histone Deacetylases Using Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
[Wiley Online Library] July 27, 2013 "Ligand release mechanisms and channels in histone deacetylases"
[Royal Society of Chemistry] December 19, 2013 "A steered molecular dynamics mediated hit discovery for histone deacetylases"
[Nature Methods] May 8, 2017 "ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates"
[Royal Society of Chemistry] October 24, 2017 "Reverse engineering: transaminase biocatalyst development using ancestral sequence reconstruction"
Hyung-Sool Lee

Research Interests:
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Production of bio-energy (electricity, H2, and CH4) and bio-chemicals from biomass
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Thermodynamic/kinetic analyses on microbial metabolisms in engineered and natural systems
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Microbial ecology in engineered biological systems
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Environmental biotechnology
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Nutrients recovery from organic waste and wastewater
[Waterloo Stories] March 18, 2014 "Giving people a simple way to test their drinking water"
[Waterloo Stories] May 10, 2013 "Can bacteria create green energy?"
Raymond Legge

Research Interests:
- Biochemical engineering
- Protein and biomimetic engineering
- Biosensor development
- Bioprocess monitoring and soft sensor development
- Protein thermodynamics stability and analysis
- Environmental bioremediation and green bioprocesses
- Biological water treatment and membrane-based processes
- Spectroscopic techniques combined with chemometric methods for process optimization and the development of on-line sensor technology
Zoya Leonenko

Research Interests:
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Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions
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The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases
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Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)
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Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders
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Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy
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Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy
[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure
[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"
Brendan McConkey

Research Interests:
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Protein structure, functions, evolution (yeast, mammalian cell lines, plant-bacterial)
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Bioinformatics, systematics and protein evolution
- Protein structure and interaction modeling
- Protein expression pattern analysis
- Molecular genetics
Christine Moresoli

Research Interests:
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Membrane filtration process (microfiltration; ultrafiltration; nanofiltration; reverse osmosis)
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Food proteins, processes, sustainability (concentration; separation; fractionation, water and waste minimization)
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Protein recovery and purification
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Enzyme reaction engineering
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Health food product development and processing
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Thermal food processes (baking; drying; ultra-high temperature; pasteurization; sterilization)
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Diffusion transport in biomaterials and polymeric films
Michael Pope

Research Interests:
- Flexible, wearable energy storage and sensing technologies
- Graphene production and post-processing techniques
- Directed assembly of 2D nanomaterials at the air-water interface
- Bottom-up assembly approaches for energy storage, sensing and electrocatalysis
- Supercapacitors
- Next generation batteries
- Electrochemical sensors
- Thin films and membranes
- Nano-materials
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:
Michael Tam

Research Interests:
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Enhanced drug delivery systems, gene therapy
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Associative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings
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Sustainable nanomaterials (cellulose nanocrystals)
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Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and stimuli responsive polymeric systems
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Polymer-surfactant interactions
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Magnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes
University Research Chair
Valerie Ward

Research interests:
- Environmental biology, industrial biotechnology, and therapeutics
- Production of sustainable chemicals
- Novel bioprocesses for applications in bioresource engineering and biorefining
- Microalgae, metabolic engineering, and ionic liquid based separations in biological systems
Murray Young

Research Interests:
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Biopharmaceuticals (therapeutics, treatment of autoimmune diseases, prevent rejection of organ transplants)
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Industrial biomanufacturing and biotechnology (fermentation, food ingredients, enzymes, biofuels)
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Environmental management (bioremediation of carcinogenic environmental pollutants, filtration, chromatography)
The Royal Society of Canada Fellow
[YouTube Lecture] September 29, 2014 "Biofuels and Waste Treatment"
[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Industrial Biotechnology: Current developments and trends"
[UW Eng-e-news] August 14, 2013 "Engineering Life-enhancing research"
[Waterloo Stories] May 3, 2013 "Can bacteria help create a cheaper fuel for our cars?"
[CBB researcher story] December 6, 2012 "Bringing Bioengineering and Biotechnology to its Fullest Potential"