BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//142.1.176.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Chemical Engineering &\; Applied Chemistry X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://chem-eng.utoronto.ca X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-23776@chem-eng.utoronto.ca DTSTAMP:20240329T064616Z CATEGORIES: CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Harris Wang\, Columbia University\nHost: Prof. Chris Lawson\nMi crobes that live in soil are responsible for a variety of key decompositio n and remediation activities in the biosphere. Microbes that colonize the gastrointestinal tract play important roles in host metabolism\, immunity\ , and homeostasis. Better tools to study and alter these microbiomes are e ssential for unlocking their vast potential to improve human health and th e environment. This talk will describe our recent efforts to develop next- generation tools to study and modify microbial communities. Specifically\, I will discuss new platforms for automated microbial culturomics\, techni ques to genetically engineer complex microbial consortia and methods for b iocontainment. These emerging capabilities provide a foundation to acceler ate the development of microbiome-based products and therapies.\n_____\nHa rris Wang is an Associate Professor at Columbia University jointly appoint ed in the Department of Systems Biology and the Department of Pathology an d Cell Biology. Dr. Wang received his B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Phys ics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University. His rese arch group mainly develops enabling genomic technologies to characterize t he mammalian gut microbiome and to engineer these microbes with the capaci ty to monitor and improve human health. Dr. Wang is an Investigator of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the recipient of numerous awards\, including the Vilcek Prize or Creative Promise in Biomedical Science\, NIH Director’ s Early Independence Award\, NSF CAREER\, Sloan Research Fellowship\, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama\, which is “the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early st ages of their independent research careers.”\nhttp://wanglab.c2b2.columbia .edu/\nView the complete 2022-23 LLE schedule\nQuestions? Please contact P rofessor Jay Werber (jay.werber@utoronto.ca) or Sophia Lu (soph.lu@mail.ut oronto.ca). DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230322T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230322T130000 LOCATION:WB116 @ 200 College Street SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:LLE: Mapping and Engineering Microbiomes of the Mammalian Gut and i n Soil Environments (Harris Wang\, Columbia University) URL:https://chem-eng.utoronto.ca/event/lle-harris-wang/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nHos t: Prof. Chris Lawson
\nMicrobes that li ve in soil are responsible for a variety of key decomposition and remediat ion activities in the biosphere. Microbes that colonize the gastrointestin al tract play important roles in host metabolism\, immunity\, and homeosta sis. Better tools to study and alter these microbiomes are essential for u nlocking their vast potential to improve human health and the environment. This talk will describe our recent efforts to develop next-generation too ls to study and modify microbial communities. Specifically\, I will discus s new platforms for automated microbial culturomics\, techniques to geneti cally engineer complex microbial consortia and methods for biocontainment. These emerging capabilities provide a foundation to accelerate the develo pment of microbiome-based products and therapies.
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\nHarris Wang is an Associate Professor at Columbia Universit
y jointly appointed in the Department of Systems Biology and the Departmen
t of Pathology and Cell Biology. Dr. Wang received his B.S. degrees in Mat
hematics and Physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard Uni
versity. His research group mainly develops enabling genomic technologies
to characterize the mammalian gut microbiome and to engineer these microbe
s with the capacity to monitor and improve human health. Dr. Wang is an In
vestigator of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the recipient of numerous aw
ards\, including the Vilcek Prize or Creative Promise in Biomedical Scienc
e\, NIH Director’s Early Independence Award\, NSF CAREER\, Sloan Research
Fellowship\, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and En
gineers (PECASE) from President Obama\, which is “the highest honor bestow
ed by the United States Government on science and engineering professional
s in the early stages of their independent research careers.”
http://wanglab.c2b2.columb ia.edu/
\nView the complete 2022-23 LLE sche dule
\nQuestions? Please contact Professor Jay Werber (jay.werber@ut oronto.ca) or Sophia Lu (soph.lu@mail.utoronto.ca).
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