Grant: Strategic Projects - Group
Université de Sherbrooke
$295,368.00
Advancing clean water treatment technology through euglena transcriptome modulation and metabolome mining**
FY 2018-19
Summary
The Canadian mining industry accounted for 16% of GDP and 1.74 million jobs in Canada in 2016. Sustainable development is critical to the natural resources sector and to the environmental friendly development in the North. This project aims to develop a sustainable green biofiltration technology for mineral extraction and mining waste waters in order to aid in the responsible development and stewardship of the mineral extraction. The abilities of the protist Euglena to sequester metals in diluted mine waters and to facilitate their extraction will be evaluated using state-of-the-art molecular techniques including genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. The Euglena-based filtration technology development will enable extraction of economically valuable metals and it will reduce the environmental footprint of the tailing ponds. *
Program
Strategic Projects - Group
Recipient
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
521417-2018
Name nom
Guéguen, Céline
Department département
Chimie
Organization id
68
Institution établissement
Université de Sherbrooke
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2018
Competition year année de concours
2018
Award amount
295368
Program id
STPGP
Program name en
Strategic Projects - Group
Program name fr
Projets stratégiques - De groupe
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1590
Committee name en
Strategic Projects - Natural Resources and Energy
Committee name fr
Projets stratégiques - Ressources naturelles et énergie
Area of application code
202
Area of application group en
Natural resources (economic aspects)
Area of application group fr
Ressources naturelles (aspects économiques)
Area of application en
Mineral resources ( prospecting, exploration, mining, extraction, processing)
Area of application fr
Ressources minérales (prospection, exploration, mines, extraction et préparation)
Research subject code
1505
Research subject group en
Environmental engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie de l'environnement
Research subject en
Bioremediation
Research subject fr
Biorestauration
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Advancing clean water treatment technology through euglena transcriptome modulation and metabolome mining**
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
The Canadian mining industry accounted for 16% of GDP and 1.74 million jobs in Canada in 2016. Sustainable development is critical to the natural resources sector and to the environmental friendly development in the North. This project aims to develop a sustainable green biofiltration technology for mineral extraction and mining waste waters in order to aid in the responsible development and stewardship of the mineral extraction. The abilities of the protist Euglena to sequester metals in diluted mine waters and to facilitate their extraction will be evaluated using state-of-the-art molecular techniques including genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. The Euglena-based filtration technology development will enable extraction of economically valuable metals and it will reduce the environmental footprint of the tailing ponds. *
