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

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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.