MGL News


Congratulations to Jennifer Kyle on her successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis.   Jennifer is moving on to a Postdoctoral position to pursue her groundbreaking research on the geomicrobiology of bacteriophage.


MGL members presented five papers in September 2009 at ISEB 19 in Hamburg Germany.


 

Chris Kennedy is working with Bactech Mining, who are developing their bioleaching technology to extract difficult to treat ore in an environmentally responsible and economically beneficial manner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Microbial Geochemistry Laboratory (MGL) was established in 1991 as one of the first dedicated geomicrobiology laboratories in Canada when Professor (F.G.) Grant Ferris joined the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto.  Research since then has extended from field studies on mineral precipitation by bacteria in terrestrial hot springs and deep sea hydrothermal vents to experimental laboratory work on the surface chemistry of bacterial cells.  Professor Ferris serves as the Chair of the Executive Board of the International Symposia on Environmental Biogeochemistry, is a founding member of the Canadian Space Agency Astrobiology working group and the InterRidge Biogeochemistry working group.  He has served as an associate editor for the Geomicrobiology Journal, Applied Geochemistry, and Geobiology.

 

 

    University of Toronto Department of Geology

Microbial Geochemistry Laboratory

                                                                                                            www.geomicrobiology.ca

 

 

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