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National strategies
Canadian Microbiome Initiative | http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51498.html |
Canadian Microbiome Initiative 2 | http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51499.html |
Economic Strategy Tables | https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/098.nsf/eng/home |
Key food or agricultural strategies
Economic Strategy Tables (agri-food sector) | https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/098.nsf/eng/home |
"The Barton Report" (Key Sectors) | https://www.budget.gc.ca/aceg-ccce/home-accueil-en.html |
Food Policy for Canada (Everyone at the table) | https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/food-policy.html |
Growing Canada's value-added food sector | https://sencanada.ca/en/info-page/parl-42-1/agfo-made-in-canada/ |
Main national and regional funders that support microbiome activities
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund
- Genome Canada
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
Which programmes are funding microbiome research (between 2013-2027)?
Name of programme | Which funders in your country are involved in the programme? |
Canadian Microbiome Initiative | CIHR |
Canadian Microbiome Initiative 2 | CIHR |
Genomics R&D Initiative | NRC |
2015 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology B/CB | Genome Canada |
2015 Disruptive Innovation in Genomics Competition | Genome Canada |
2015 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition - Natural Resources and the Environment: Sector Challenges - Genomic Solutions | Genome Canada |
2017 Disruptive Innovation in Genomics Competition for Phase 1 Projects Advancing to Phase 2 | Genome Canada |
2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics and Precision Health | Genome Canada |
2017 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition | Genome Canada |
2018 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics Solutions for Agriculture, Agri-food, Fisheries and Aquaculture | Genome Canada |
Genomic Applications Partnership Program | Genome Canada |
What are major support facilities for microbiome research?
The International Microbiome Centre | https://imccalgary.ca/ |
Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotic Research | https://www.lawsonresearch.ca/research-theme/microbiome-and-probiotics |
Humans & the Microbiome | https://www.cifar.ca/research/programs/humans-the-microbiome |
Integrated Microbiome Resource | https://imr.bio/ |
Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology | http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/cmcb/ |
Compute Canada | https://bioinformatics.computecanada.ca/ |
Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding | http://ccdb.ca/ |
Canadian MetaMicroBiome Library | http://www.cm2bl.org/ |
What are the most important platforms for network activities related to microbiome research?
none listed
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