Events

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.

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.

Come hear WCMR speakers discuss the "Many Metabolisms of Microbes" on Thursday March 21st at 3pm in STC 2002.

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.

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".

Come hear WCMR speakers discuss the "Microbes at Work" on Thursday April 11^th at 3pm in STC 2002.

Our panelists are:

Hyung-Sool Lee

Interested in learning more about bioplastics?

Kick-off an exciting year of 'Plastics and Microbes' with the WCMR. We have lots of events planned including a weekend hackathon.

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 ".

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.

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.