Events

Presenter: Saeed Amin. "Retrieval of a million high-quality, full-length microbial 16S and 18S rRNA gene sequences without primer bias"

Join host Prof Laura Hug for the Environmental Microbiology Journal club to discuss a recent paper of interest in microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and emerging microbiology trends.

Presenter: Lee Bergstrand: "Metagenomes reveal global distribution of bacterial steroid catabolism in natural, engineered, and host environments"

Join host Prof Laura Hug for the Environmental Microbiology Journal club to discuss a recent paper of interest in microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and emerging microbiology trends.

Presenter: Aneisha Collins-Fairclough will lead our discussion on "A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus–host interactions in extreme environments", published in the ISMEJ this year.

Join host Prof Laura Hug for the Environmental Microbiology Journal club to discuss a recent paper of interest in microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and emerging microbiology trends.

Event Rescheduled! - Monday June 4th, 11:00-12:00, QNC 1506

Patenting Life is a tricky situation. Graham McKinnon, co-founder of Carbon Patent Group, discusses stories of CRISPR IP and patenting life as well as 101 rejections for USPTO.

Mr. McKinnon’s specialty is drafting and prosecuting patents in the fields of chemistry, therapeutics, drug delivery, genomics, proteomics, protein chemistry and medical devices. He is currently involved in the patenting of CRISPR in Canada.

On June 13th at 1pm Professor Jo Handelsman will present a seminar "Microbiomes: From the White House to the Lab" before receiving her honorary doctorate at convocation at the University of Waterloo.

STC 0060, June 13, 1 pm

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.

Asaf Levy - Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Plants intimately associate with diverse bacteria. Plant-associated bacteria have ostensibly evolved genes that enable them to adapt to plant environments. However, the identities of such genes are mostly unknown, and their functions are poorly characterized.

Especially for undergraduate and graduate students, the newly formed WatSAM (Waterloo Students and Microbiology) club will be hosting a panel of speakers from multiple disciplines who can tell you how microbiology impacts their field of work, answer your questions, and possibly spark a love for microbial research.

Panelists include:

microTALK panel - topic: Microbes @ Work

Lisa Johnson has selected our article for group discussion - "Cryptic CH4 cycling in the sulfate–methane transition of marine sediments apparently mediated by ANME-1 archaea" by Beulig et al in ISME this year. The article can be found here.