Feature Story: Grant to support wastewater research

Abstract

The campus community recently gathered to celebrate a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant for Dr. Chris Yost’s research. Yost is a Biology professor in the Faculty of Science as well as a Canada Research Chair in Microbes, the Environment and Food Safety. He is researching the connections between the genes that make bacteria antibiotic resistant and wastewater treatment plants. The research will help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria to the environment and potentially to humans. His latest research project – a collaboration with colleagues from Dalhousie and Acadia Universities – received $584,975 over three years from a project grant competition administered by NSERC.