Events

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.

microTALK panel - topic: Microbes @ Work

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.

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

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

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.

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".

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 ".

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.