News for Faculty

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

WCMR Launches ASTRAW Project for COVID-19 Screening

The Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research (WCMR) is coordinating a campus project screening for COVID using saliva. Professors Trevor Charles and Jozef Nissimov from the Department of Biology, alongside Drs. Patricia Quadros and Carly Huitema of the WCMR have been awarded $120,000 to determine the effectiveness of a new rapid test and help prevent outbreaks on campus.

Monday, July 6, 2020

WCMR Contributes to a definition of the Microbiome

The WCMR participated in a panel of international experts as part of our membership representing Canada in the international, EU funded project MicrobiomeSupport. The outcome of this workshop and subsequent online survey was to propose a widely accepted definition of 'microbiome', which was just published in the journal Microbiome.

Thursday, July 4, 2019

SynBio 4.0 at the University of Waterloo

SynBio 4.0; Bringing together the future of biology

May 26-28

by Claire Murphy, Research collaborator

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

WatSAM and World Microbiome Day

For this year's World Microbiome day, WatSAM decided to engage the creative side of students on the University of Waterloo campus. A booth was set up with a option to decorate a cookie and design a pinback button with inspiration drawn from various types of petri dishes. The cookies drew in many curious (and hungry) students, and those who had a bit more time sat down and designed a button or grabbed a WatSAM laptop sticker. Students had a blast getting creative while learning and celebrating World Microbiome day.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019