Events

Dr. Rino Rappuoli is theChief Scientist and Head External R&D at GSK Vaccines, Siena, Italy. He was awarded a 2017 Canada Gairdner International Award "For pioneering the genomic approach, known as reverse vaccinology, used to develop a vaccine against meningococcus B which has saved many lives worldwide."

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: Veronica Vijakainen. Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania

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.

Did you know that over $2.2 million in research funds through Mitacs were invested at the University of Waterloo last 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.

Speaker: Prof. Lindi Wahl, Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University

A screening of the documentary Food Evolution directed by academy award nominee, Scott Hamilton Kennedy and narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Presenter: Zinda Lu. A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil.

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: Steffen Klaere

Paper: Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis

The Environmental Microbiology Journal club discusses a recent paper of interest pertaining to microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and emerging microbiology on a biweekly basis. One person selects the article of interest and provides a brief overview of the main findings and implications of the work. A group discussion follows.

This week's paper from the ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology talks about next generation sequencing and metagenomics. Join host Prof Laura Hug to learn more!

Presenter: Emilie Spasov. Paper: Callahan et al. ISME 2017

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.