Aquatic Environmental Genomics

加拿大水生环境基因组学研究主席的目标是基于分子（基因组学和宏基因组学）和互补培养方法，研究地下含水层生态系统中微生物群落的多样性、生态学和生物地球化学功能。该研究将为含水层生态系统中的微生物群落提供一个综合的大规模分析，极大地扩展了我们对地下栖息地微生物结构和代谢的理解。该研究项目将是将地表水生环境、供应含水层系统与地下生态系统联系起来的基础，对于了解地下群落如何应对地表条件的波动也很重要。

The objective of the Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Environmental Genomics is to investigate the diversity, ecology and biogeochemical functioning of microbial communities in subsurface aquifer ecosystems, based on molecular (genomics and metagenomics) and complementary culture approaches. The proposed research will provide an integrative broad-scale analyses of microbial communities in aquifer ecosystems, greatly expanding our understanding of microbial structure and metabolisms in subsurface habitats. The research program will be fundamental in linking surface aquatic environments, supplying aquifer systems, with subsurface ecosystems, and will be important in understanding how subsurface communities respond to fluctuations in surface conditions.