Waterloo researcher helps expand genetic toolbox

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

CBB member, Trevor Charles, is part of a newly formed collaboration that has received $250,000 in funding from Genome Canada’s Disruptive Innovations in Genomics (DIG) program to retool a well-studied bacterial strain into accepting genetic material from other bacterial species. The new genetic toolbox will have wide-ranging applications from generating new bioplastics to fighting devastating plant pathogens.

[UW Daily Bulletin] [Biology News]