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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-win
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Room DC 1301 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Winter 2026 Open House
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-fal
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Room DC 1301 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Fall 2025 Open House
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DESCRIPTION:Fall 2025 WCMR Open House
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/2nd-annu
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LOCATION:QNC - Quantum Nano Centre 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N
 2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:2nd Annual WCMR Research Symposium
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 WCMR Research Symposium event will take place in June\
 , at the\n2nd floor Atrium in QNC from  1-4 pm. Register on our webpage\n
 [https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/2nd-annual
 -wcmr-research-symposium].
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
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SUMMARY:WCMR Spring 2025 Open House
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Room DC 1301 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Winter Welcome 2025
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-fal
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Room DC 1301 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Fall 2024 Open House
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/2024-gai
 rdner-national-lecture-dr-christian-landry
LOCATION:EV3 - Environment 3 Room 4412 200 University Avenue West Waterloo 
 ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:2024 Gairdner National Lecture: Dr. Christian Landry
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Gairdner National Lecture with Dr. Christian Landry: T
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-spr
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Room DC 1301 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Spring/Summer 2024 Open House
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-mon
 thly-meetup-2
LOCATION:Universtity of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West B1-266 Waterloo
  ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Monthly Meetup
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:> SHIRLEY WONG\, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW PRESENTS:\n> \n> TO
 WARDS VALORIZATION OF FOOD WASTE TO BIOPLASTIC IN _PSEUDOMONAS\n>
  ALLOPUTIDA_ \n> \n> ABSTRACT: \n> \n> Annually\, over a billion
  tonnes of food is wasted\, where it largely\n> ends up in lan
 dfills and massively contributes to the emission of\n> greenhouse
  gases. To improve global sustainability\, this low-value\n> carbo
 n resource can instead be converted into high-value bio-based\n> 
 products. Microbial valorization of food waste has been validated\
 n> for many applications\, from biofuels to bioplastic polymers l
 ike\n> polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). Much effort has gone into pro
 cessing\n> heterogenous food waste towards such applications\, such
  as anaerobic\n> digestion to produce short-chain fatty acids (sc
 FAs)\, a group of\n> industrially-relevant fatty acids that can b
 e used as building\n> blocks for other bioproducts. _Pseudomonas 
 alloputida_ is a highly\n> promising PHA producer but its ability
  to metabolize scFAs is\n> limited.\n> \n> To improve the capaci
 ty of PH production on scFAs and\, therefore\,\n> enable its upc
 ycling of food waste into high-value bioplastic\, we\n> are using
  functional metagenomics to mine exogenous carbon\n> utilization p
 athways from the environment. Environmental microbial\n> communities
  represent rich\, untapped reservoirs of novel genes and\n> metab
 olic pathways. Here\, we present community analyses of compost\n>
  and soil microbiomes enriched for utilization of short (C2-C5)\n
 > versus medium chain fatty acids (C8 and C9) under conditions\n
 > conducive to PHA accumulation. We are furthermore constructing\n
 > metagenomic libraries from the enriched cultures using the\n> b
 road-host-range cosmid pJC8\, with an average insert size of 33 
 kb.\n> The metagenomic libraries will enable us to functionally s
 creen for\,\n> identify\, and isolate exogenous metabolic pathways
  that could\n> support scFA-PHA conversion by _P. alloputida_. Ad
 ditionally\, we\n> further characterize the ability of engineered 
 _P. alloputida_ to\n> use VFAs in bioplastic production\, demonstr
 ating its use in food\n> waste valorization.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/events/wcmr-mon
 thly-meetup-1
LOCATION:AL - Arts Lecture Hall 200 University Avenue West AL-113 Waterloo 
 ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCMR Monthly Meetup
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:> METATRANSCRIPTOMICS IDENTIFIES PATHOGENS AND HOST RESPO
 NSES\n> ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE SINUSITIS IN CHILDREN\n> \n> ABSTRAC
 T: Acute sinusitis (AS) is a frequent cause of antibiotic\n> pre
 scriptions in children. Distinguishing bacterial AS from common\n>
  viral upper respiratory infections is crucial to prevent unneces
 sary\n> antibiotic use. We performed RNA-seq of nasopharyngeal sam
 ples from\n> 221 children with AS to better understand the etiol
 ogy of AS and the\n> impact of bacterial and viral infections o
 n host immune responses.\n> Metatranscriptomics detected three AS-a
 ssociated bacterial pathogens\n> with 87%/81% sensitivity/specificity
  (sens/spec) compared to\n> culture\, and 12 respiratory viruses 
 with 86%/92% sens/spec compared\n> to qRT-PCR. Metatranscriptomics 
 also detected 22 additional\n> pathogens not tested for in the c
 linical panel\, and facilitated\n> assembly of 205 viral genomes 
 including new strains of\n> coronaviruses\, respiratory syncytial v
 irus\, and enterovirus D68.\n> Lastly\, metatranscriptomic analysis
  identified distinct host immune\n> responses in individuals with
  bacterial versus viral infections. Our\n> study demonstrates the
  power of metatranscriptomics for\n> comprehensive analysis of AS
  etiology\, and reveals host responses\n> that could enable new 
 diagnostic approaches.
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