Genome Canada and McGill to track COVID-19 variants of concern

Published: 27 April 2021

Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. McGill University researcher Guillaume Bourque, a professor in the Department...

Success in Genome Canada competition

Published: 14 February 2019

Congratulations to Jianguo (Jeff) Xia ( AnSci/Para), Guillaume Bourque (Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill University & Genome Quebec Innovation Center) and Pierre-Étienne Jacques ...

McGill genomics research projects to receive $10M in federal, provincial funding

Published: 5 February 2019

Major federal and provincial investments in genomics research were announced this week following three recent Genome Canada competitions. The announcement, made at University of Guelph, includes...

Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land

Published: 28 March 2018

Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from...

McGill-led genomics centres win $9.8 M, three-year funding support from Genome Canada

Published: 21 February 2018

The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre and the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics will receive a total of $9.8 million in funding over three years through Genome Canada...

Almost $10 million for salmonella research

Published: 21 July 2015

Poultry used to be the usual suspect in cases of Salmonella poisoning. Today, however, most outbreaks of the illness come from fruit and vegetables that have become infected when the soil in which...

Great performance of Québec researchers at last GAPP

Published: 12 July 2016

McGill Newsroom Génome Québec is happy to report that Québec has achieved excellent results in the 5th cycle of the Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP).

McGill researchers lead development of tool to assess environmental risks of chemicals

Published: 8 December 2016

Assessing the risks that toxic chemicals pose to natural ecosystems is a huge challenge, given the thousands of chemicals that require testing. But the task is expected soon to become less daunting...

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