Events

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:

On Wednesday Oct 10th at 10am come to QNC 1506 to hear Ontario Genomics give information on their upcoming Ontario regional Priorities Partnership Program (RP3).

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.

We will meet to discuss the recent Hillmann et al. paper "Evaluating the Information Content of Shallow Shotgun Metagenomics" today, in STC from 12-1 pm. The paper can be read here. 

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.

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

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.

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.

Environmental Journal Club happens in STC from 12-1 pm, all are welcome.

Next events: Feb 26, Mar 12, Mar 26, Apr 9.