Advancing clean water treatment technology through euglena transcriptome modulation and metabolome mining

2016年，加拿大采矿业占国内生产总值的16%，创造了174万个就业岗位。可持续发展对自然资源部门和北方的环境友好型发展至关重要。该项目旨在为矿物开采和采矿废水开发可持续的绿色生物过滤技术，以帮助矿物开采的负责任发展和管理。原生Euglena在稀释的矿山水中隔离金属并促进其提取的能力将使用最先进的分子技术进行评估，包括基因组学，转录组学和代谢组学。以euglena为基础的过滤技术的发展将使提取具有经济价值的金属成为可能，并将减少尾矿池对环境的影响。

The Canadian mining industry accounted for 16% of GDP and 1.74 million jobs in Canada in 2016. Sustainable development is critical to the natural resources sector and to the environmental friendly development in the North. This project aims to develop a sustainable green biofiltration technology for mineral extraction and mining waste waters in order to aid in the responsible development and stewardship of the mineral extraction. The abilities of the protist Euglena to sequester metals in diluted mine waters and to facilitate their extraction will be evaluated using state-of-the-art molecular techniques including genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. The Euglena-based filtration technology development will enable extraction of economically valuable metals and it will reduce the environmental footprint of the tailing ponds.