Mailing address: University of Waterloo: Biology 1 – 377B, 200 University Ave. W. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
Email: wcmr.manager@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519.573.3349
Office: Biology 1, room 377B, University of Waterloo
Marc Aucoin
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
519-888-4567 x36084
Location:
E6 4012
Expertise:
- Complex biologics (products derived from living organisms or the organisms themselves)
- Baculovirus expression systems of complex biologics, including glycosylation and myritoylation post-translational modifications
- Cell culture monitoring, modeling and simulation – from metabolomics to on-line spectroscopy
- Monoclonal antibody production and modification, including enhancing monodispersity of the product
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Operating Committee; Faculty→Engineering; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and Technology, Understanding Microbes
Trevor Charles
Director WCMR, Professor, Biology
519-888-4567 x35606
Location:
B1 377C
Expertise:
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in agriculture
- Functional metagenomics to look at the genomes of organisms present in complex samples such as soil
- Bacterial genome engineering for the production of bioproducts such as polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)
- Synthetic biology, bioplastics and bioproducts
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Operating Committee; Faculty→Science; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and the Environment
Laura Hug
Associate Director WCMR, Assistant professor, Biology, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology
519-888-4567 x31151
Location:
B1 281
Expertise:
- Microbial diversity and function, especially at contaminated sites (primarily municipal landfills)
- Microbiome analysis (DNA, RNA and protein in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics) from environmental samples
- Bioremediation tool development from exploration of microbial community interactions
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Operating Committee; Faculty→Science; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and the Environment, Understanding Microbes
Brian Ingalls
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
519-888-4567 x35457
Location:
MC 6116
Expertise:
- Applications of systems and control theory to systems biology
- Design and construction of gene regulatory networks from forward-engineering of biological systems (synthetic biology)
- Modelling intracellular networks and heterogeneous cellular communities
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Operating Committee; Faculty→Mathematics; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and Technology, Understanding Microbes
Maren Oelbermann
Associate Director WCMR, Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
519-888-4567 x47552
Location:
EV2 2008
Expertise:
- Sustainable agriculture and agroforestry: food security, agrobiodiversity, climate change resilience, carbon sequestration, nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical, temperate and sub-arctic biomes
- Biochar: soil health, carbon sequestration, climate change resilience
- Waste to resources: closing the loop between food wastage and its ultimate use as a soil amendment
- Riparian (river bank) land-use systems in agricultural landscapes: determining carbon and nitrogen transformations in terrestrial and aquatic components of the river bank
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Group(s):
Operating Committee; Faculty→Environment; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and the Environment
Wayne Parker
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
519-888-4567 x36324
Location:
E2 3303
Expertise:
- Anaerobic membrane bioreactors for wastewater and sludge treatment
- Fate of emerging contaminants in wastewater systems
- Pretreatment of sludges for enhanced digestion
- Advanced sludge digestion processes
- Nutrient recovery from wastewater
- Modelling of wastewater treatment and sludge handling processes
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Operating Committee; Faculty→Engineering; Position→Faculty; Research Theme→Microbes and Technology, Microbes and the Environment