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

2016年，加拿大矿业占国内生产总值的16%，为加拿大提供了174万个就业岗位。可持续发展对于北方的自然资源部门和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沃茨开发可持续的绿色生物过滤技术，以帮助负责任地开发和管理矿物开采。原生生物裸藻的能力，以螯合金属在稀释的矿井沃茨，并促进其提取将使用国家的最先进的分子技术，包括基因组学，转录组学和代谢组学进行评估。基于裸藻的过滤技术开发将能够提取具有经济价值的金属，并将减少尾矿池的环境足迹。

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.