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Transforming Wastewater-Based Surveillance to an Actionable Public Health Tool for Managing and Mitigating Infections Across a Range of Scales

Environmental DNA (eDNA)/RNA (eRNA) is the genetic material organisms leave behind in their environment, including in water, soil and air. Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is a valuable monitoring strategy for population health combining science, engineering and medicine to improve how health systems identify a changing burden of infections and antimicrobial-resistant organisms. WBS provides objective, inclusive and […]

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Tailgate eDNA sequencing for near-real-time biodiversity monitoring

Environmental DNA (eDNA)/RNA (eRNA) is the genetic material organisms leave behind in their environment, including in water, soil and air. Canada’s natural ecosystems face mounting threats from climate change, land use and resource extraction. To ensure effective decision-making to protect, preserve and remediate ecosystems, reliable, up-to-date information on species distribution, community composition and the presence

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The role of genomics in fostering and supporting arctic biodiversity: Implications for wildlife management, policy, and Indigenous food security

Wildlife genome information is extremely valuable for environmental decision making, yet much remains unused for this purpose. This project draws together partners with expertise across disciplines, cultures and organizations, building upon team strengths in Arctic observation and monitoring, biology, conservation, cyber-cartography, data management, genomics, geography, Indigenous Knowledge, the legal and policy sciences, and resource management.

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Field validation of technologies for anaerobic benzene and alkylbenzene bioremediation

The federal contaminated sites inventory lists over 1000 soil and groundwater sites contaminated with BTEX compounds (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes). BTEX present significant risks to human and environmental health, especially benzene, a known carcinogen. Benzene is also particularly challenging to remediate due to its slow biodegradation in the absence of oxygen. Genomics-based modeling of

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Validation and integration of genomics solutions for offshore oil exploration in Nova Scotia and beyond

Given the competitiveness among the super-majors to find and develop new oil and gas reservoirs around the world, and the billion-dollar cost of exploration programs, any proven enhancements in offshore exploration success will have an immediate economic return. This project focuses on de-risking exploration and development in offshore Nova Scotia by the validation and integration

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The Canadian BioGenome Project

The richness of Canada’s biodiversity is under threat today due to climate change, habitat destruction and novel emerging diseases. A common thread across conservation strategies is the need for genomic tools to address knowledge gaps related to species evolution, adaption, viability, and genetic diversity. A reference-quality whole genome sequence is the foundation for such genetic

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Application of genomics to enhance wetland treatment systems for remediation of processed water in northern environments

Constructed wetland treatment systems (CWTS) are one of very few scalable and cost-effective technologies for remediating large volumes of wastewaters. An in-depth understanding of how these nature-based, passive, low energy systems operate to treat industrial waste is needed to enhance treatment efficacy in cold weather, particularly in northern environments that are challenged by short summers

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Microbial genomics for derisking offshore oil and gas exploration in Nova Scotia

The proposed GAPP project fits within a broad initiative in offshore oil and gas exploration geoscience mapping led by the Nova Scotia Department of Energy (NSDoE), the project’s End User. The province has partnered with this team to develop, validate, and deploy three new genomics-based bioassay tools for offshore prospecting on the Scotian Slope. Results

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Metagenomics for greener production and extraction of hydrocarbon energy

Our present society is dependent on hydrocarbon resources. Until technologies exist to deliver a high proportion of our energy from renewable sources, at a reasonable cost, we must ensure that we extract the existing hydrocarbon resources in the most environmentally friendly manner possible. This project will allow Canada to satisfy the growing gap between the

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Systems biology and molecular ecology of Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a contagious prion disease of deer, elk and moose, are slowly-progressing, fatal, brain-destroying diseases that are spreading throughout Canada and could infect and kill many of our ~2M cervids. This would affect those who rely on cervids for food and culture, affect ecosystems and biodiversity, and hurt our reputation as

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