The Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research (WCMR) is an institution at the University of Waterloo whose mandate is to promote research and education in the application of microbiological principles and techniques to address environmental, industrial, economic and human health challenges.
Members, with their diverse research interests and varying academic backgrounds, through the WCMR, come together to engage in collaborative research in which microbes, as part of aquatic, terrestrial, engineered and host-associated environments, are explored through;
• computational analysis of sequence data
• identification of constituent species
• annotation and identification of novel molecular activities
• development of synthetic biology applications
• engineering of microbial processes for industrial applications
• participation in international sharing
• standardization of big data.
The Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research as a group, plans to unify, catalyze, and promote multidisciplinary research which explores and exploits microbes, at the University of Waterloo.
6Faculties represented
50+Faculty Members
8Research chairsTwo tenure-track positions at the University of Waterloo are currently accepting applications.
WCMR members, Trevor Charles and Murray Moo-Young, hosted a workshop on biomanufacturing at UW, June 24-27, as part of a new IPRG collaborative project between UW and the Members of CeBiB at the University of Chile. Industrial representativ
This Tuesday afternoon at the CSM conference in Winnipeg, WCMR member Andrew Doxey will give his lecture after receiving the Thermo Fisher Scientific Award.
On Friday August 17th, WCMR will be hosting a day of Synthetic Biology at the University of Waterloo featuring Stanley Cohen, a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering.
