Bernard R. Glick

• Molecular genetics
• Microbiology
• Plant physiology, growth and development

• Isolation, characterization and manipulation of microbial genes which encode products that are involved in the microbial stimulation of plant growth.
• Use of bacteria as biocontrol agents to control fungal diseases.
• Biochemical and physiological consequences of the genetic transformation of plant growth-promoting bacteria.
• Microbial phytohormone biosynthesis.
• Use of plant-microbial combinations to remediate contaminated soils.
• Ethylene modulated gene expression.

Professor Glick teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Course offerings have included

• BIOL 432 Molecular Biotechnology 2
• BIOL 467 Plant-Microbe Interaction
• BIOL 499 Honours Research Project
• BIOL 680 Plant growth-promoting bacteria drought
• BIOL 642 Current Topics in Biotechnology

Recent publications include

• Glick, B.R. 2014. Bacteria with ACC deaminase can promote plant growth and help to feed the world. Microbiol. Res. 169:30-39.
• Ali, S., Duan, J., Charles, T.C. and Glick, B.R. 2014. A bioinformatics approach to the determination of bacterial genes involved in endophytic behavior. J. Theor. Biol 343:193-198.
• Duca, D., Lorv, J., Patten, C.L., Rose, D. and Glick, B.R. 2014. Microbial indole-3-acetic acid and plant growth. Anton. Van Leeuwenhoek 106:85-125.
• Nascimento, F.X., McConkey, B.J and Glick, B.R. 2014. New insights into ACC deaminase phylogeny, evolution and evolutionary significance. PLoS ONE, 9 (6): e99168.
• Glick, B.R. 2012. Plant growth-promoting bacteria: mechanisms and applications, Scientifica vol. 2012, Article ID 963401

Please see Bernard Glick's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.

• Lady Davis Fellowship, The Technion, Haifa, Israel (2011)
• Career Achievement Award, Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs (2010)
• Salamanca University Fellowship, Salamanca, Spain (2009)
• Université Claude Bernard Fellowship, Lyon, France (2001)
• Lady Davis Fellowship, The Technion, Haifa, Israel (1992-93, 1994-95)

• Cross-appointed to Chemical Engineering

• Journal Editorship
  • Biotechnology Advances, Editorial Board Member
  • Recent Patents on Biotechnology, Editorial Board Member
  • The Open Biotechnology Journal, Editorial Board Member
  • FEMS Microbiology Letters, Section Editor
  • Plant and Soil, Section Editor
  • Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Environment, Editorial Board Member

1974 PhD Biochemistry, University of Waterloo

1972 MSc Biochemistry, University of Waterloo

1969 BSc Chemistry, The City College of New York