A currently active Canadian microbial scientist at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Dr. Charles is a bacterial geneticist whose research program focuses on plant-microbe interactions, functional metagenomics, and bacterial genome engineering for bio-products. Initially, he received his B.Sc. by 1985 in Microbiology at the University of British Columbia, followed by a Ph.D. in 1991 with Turlough Finan’s lab at McMaster University focusing on symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and a postdoctoral position in Gene Nester’s lab at the University of Washington regarding Agrobacterium. From there he obtained a faculty position at McGill University before finding his current position at the University of Waterloo in 1998, where he is now Professor, as well as Director of the Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research. During his studies he has developed several scientific fields including those focusing on plant-microbe interactions, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, plant growth-promoting bacteria, functional metagenomics, bacterial genome engineering, synthetic biology, bioplastics and bio-products, microbiome of controlled environment hydroponic systems, herbicide biodegradation, and methanotroph metabolic engineering. Dr. Charles has received a number of awards and honors during his career, including: -2015 Fellowship of Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy (India) -2015 International Award of the Ninth DBN Science and Technology Awards (China) -2012 Outstanding Performance Award -2000-2010 President, Canadian Society of Microbiologists -1991 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship In addition, he has also co-founded and is the CSO of Metagenom Bio, a company that uses metagenomic and microbial community analysis in agricultural and environmental sectors. Please check out a very interesting genomic contribution by Dr. Charles and colleagues published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24621/ His most recent paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218302 Please check out his other publications here: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=gTkdyfsAAAAJ&hl=en Recent interviews: https://uwaterloo.ca/science/news/biologist-honoured-ontario-genomics-institute-spark-award A recent Twitter post by Dr. Charles that everyone can relate to: Steven Brady Kuzyk
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