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Another great pitch from University of Alberta - Kenzie Gordon and Breaking the Wall of Sexual Violence #FallingWalls17

Well done Valerie... First University of Alberta #FallingWalls17 Lab presenter - great pitch

Falling Walls Lab training session - Canadian Embassy, Berlin

"Land reclamation returns damaged or changed land back to its natural, or almost natural, state. " Click the link below to watch one of our 2017 UAlberta Lab winners, Valerie Miller present on the research she will be competing for UAlberta with in Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3EjRcOujDg&t=109s

Follow this link to watch Abdullah Farooq (1st place UAlberta Lab 2017) discuss his research: Drug resistant bacteria are on the rise and increasingly difficult to treat with antibiotics. In fact, the World Health Organization warns the world is grappling with a ‘serious lack’ of new antibiotics to fight superbugs. However, a potential new weapon is emergingbacterial phagesnaturally occurring viruses that can kill bacteria. Phages inject their DNA into the bacteria, replicates to make new phages, and then kills the host bacteria. University of Alberta MD student Abdullah Farooq believes genetically modifying the tail fibers of a single phages phage offers a potential weapon to fight and kill bacteria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBt5ZDYTHE