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The Queen's Department of Biology is hosting their annual Biology Graduate Research Symposium on April 23, 2021. This event will showcase research conducted in the department, with a focus on graduate student work. For more information and to register: https://queensubgrs.com

Thank you to Prameet Sheth for his interesting and informative virtual seminar yesterday on multidrug resistant organisms!

The 2021 Queen’s Northern Research Symposium will be held virtually on Tuesday, April 13. Researchers from any discipline (including Social and Health Sciences, Engineering, and Natural Sciences) are welcome! All abstracts are due Wed. March 10. For more info visit: https://queensnrs.wordpress.com

An interesting and informative presentation from BWRC affiliated faculty Stephen Brown, Sarah Jane Payne and Geof Hall yesterday for the Queen's School of Policy Studies #ContagionCultures series.

Tomorrow's Queen's University School of Policy Studies #ContagionCulture lecture features BWRC affiliated faculty, Stephen Brown, Sarah Jane Payne and Geof Hall -"Flushed Intelligence-Detecting outbreaks using wastewater-based epidemiology". Join us at 4PM Mar 2. More info and to register:https://queensu.ca/sps/qccls-mar-2

Thank you to Graeme Howe for his interesting and informative virtual seminar yesterday on fundamental #enzymology as a driving force for #sustainable #biocatalysis.

Thank you to Laurence Yang for his interesting and informative virtual seminar yesterday on modelling microbial stress responses to protect #water quality!

New book launch! Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings explores why water matters during a pandemic & presents the latest research on the impact of Covid-19 on the public water sector. Written by academics, activists, practitioners, unionists, NGOs and community members based in more than 20 countries, including BWRC affiliated faculty, David McDonald, Public Water and Covid-19 provides a global take on the dark clouds cast by Covid-19 on the public ...water sector. This collection of papers showcases how public water operators are grappling with the challenges of financial hardship and privatization pressures. The silver lining? Covid-19 has also shown how public water operators can deal effectively and fairly with the pandemic in the short-term with progressive practices that open up possibilities for improved democratization and equity-oriented services in the future. Full access online here: https://www.municipalservicesproject.org//public-water-and #PublicWater #COVID19 #PublicOwnership #OpenAccess #PublicAlternatives

Check out this recent article from one of our newly affiliated early career researchers, Kristen Lowitt. Her and her co-authors used Canadian case studies to demonstrate ways of using food systems as an organizing concept to protect small-scale fisheries, build sustainable communities, and influence fisheries governance and policy. Full article: https://www.sciencedirect.com//a/abs/pii/S0308597X20300373 #fisheries, #Governance #Foodsecurity #Foodsystems #Canada

Finally, an official welcome to Sarah Jane Payne from the Department of Civil Engineering and George diCenzo from the Department of Biology! Sarah Jane was the first presenter in our joint Virtual Seminar Series with the LEADERS CREATE Program and George recently received a Discovery grant from NSERC.

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