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
Monday, November 25, 2019 — 3:00 PM EST
Join us for a science focused panel discussion on the topic of microbes and plastics featuring researchers and industry guests on November 25 at 3pm in DC 1302. Hear our exciting panel (David Levin, Hyung-Sool Lee, Komal Habib and Tej Gidda) giving a brief (5-8min) outline of their work as related to the topic, followed by a moderator led discussion for the rest of the hour.
Monday, November 18, 2019 — 12:30 PM EST
We'll be meeting for our next Env. Micro. journal club this coming Monday, Nov. 18th from 12:30pm-1:30pm in STC-2002. As usual, pizza lunch will be generously provided by the WCMR.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 — 12:30 PM EDT
Inheritance of your DNA: Passing On Genes And Other Information
The Gairdner lecture at the University of Waterloo, featuring award winner Bruce Stillman, will be held October 23rd at 12:30pm in AL 116. This lecture will be targeted to high school audiences but all are welcome to attend.
Monday, October 7, 2019 — 12:30 PM EDT
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12:30-1:30 pm, all are welcome.
We will discuss the paper: "High proportions of bacteria are culturable across major biomes ".
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Interested in learning more about bioplastics?
Thursday, April 11, 2019 — 3:00 PM EDT
Come hear WCMR speakers discuss the "Microbes at Work" on Thursday April 11th at 3pm in STC 2002.
Our panelists are:
Hyung-Sool Lee
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 12:00 PM EDT
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.
We will discuss the paper by Borrel et al. "Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea".
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 — 12:00 PM EDT
Nikhil George will lead our discussion on the recent BioRxiv preprint "Clades of huge phage from across Earth’s ecosystems".
See you in STC 2002 at noon.
Thursday, March 21, 2019 — 3:00 PM EDT
Come hear WCMR speakers discuss the "Many Metabolisms of Microbes" on Thursday March 21st at 3pm in STC 2002.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 — 12:00 PM EDT
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.
This week we will discuss a paper titled "Extensive Unexplored Human Microbiome Diversity Revealed by Over 150,000 Genomes from Metagenomes Spanning Age, Geography, and Lifestyle", and is a nice follow-up to our discussion last time with metagenomes in place of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.
The paper can be found here.
Next events: Mar 26, Apr 9.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 — 12:00 PM EST
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.
This week Journal Club will discuss: "Microbiomes of the polychaete Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) across its life-history stages". The paper was suggested by Alex Sauk.
The paper can be found online here.
Next events: Mar 12, Mar 26, Apr 9.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 — 12:00 PM EST
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.
Next events: Feb 26, Mar 12, Mar 26, Apr 9.
Thursday, February 7, 2019 — 4:00 PM EST
On Thursday February 7th come to Biology 2, room 350 to hear the Scientific Editor of Cell and celebrated University of Waterloo Alumni April Pawluk present a general talk of the editorial process at Cell and about Cell Press in General.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 — 12:00 PM EST
Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.
Grant Jensen will present our paper: Abundance determines the functional role of bacterial phylotypes in microbial communities, by Rivett and Bell in Nature Micro last year.
The paper can be found here.
Next events: Feb 12, Feb 26, Mar 12, Mar 26, Apr 9.
Thursday, January 24, 2019 — 11:45 AM EST
Together with the Office of Research, the WCMR presents a special panel discussion on:
Unearthing ancient environments with microbes.
The panel will feature WCMR speakers Alexis Dolphin (Anthropology), Kirsten Müller (Biology), and Andrew Doxey (Biology) as well as Peter Keech of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.
Refreshments provided.
Please register at uwaterloo.ca/research/research-talks
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 — 10:00 AM EST
Do you have a great idea?
Want to know if it is patentable?
Would you like to commercialize it but don’t know how?
Are you aware of UW’s Intellectual Property Policy?
Are you interested in creating a Start-Up company?
Did you know that UW has a Commercialization Office?
Want to avoid the common Intellectual Property pitfalls that many researchers face?
Please attend the seminar “UW, Intellectual Property & You” on Tuesday January 22, 2019 and we’ll discuss all of the above questions plus more.