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Opportunities for Collaboration |
| We collaborate with other academic research groups locally, nationally and internationally. We have direct interaction with scientists from other disciplines through the Centre for Food and Soft Materials Science, the Electrochemical Technology Centre, the Advanced Foods and Materials Network, a national Network of Centres of Excellence, and the Emerging Materials Knowledge network of Materials and Manufacturing Ontario, a provincial Centre of Excellence. There is a strong Guelph-Waterloo-McMaster polymer physics network with Professor Jamie Forrest (University of Waterloo) and Kari Dalnoki-Veress (McMaster University, Hamilton), who are both former members of the PSI group. In addition to a worldwide network of academic collaborators, we have research collaborations with several companies such as 3M Canada, Dow Chemical and Nexia Biotechnologies. These collaborations provide an opportunity for students to interact with industrial scientists and experience how polymers and biopolymers are studied in an industrial environment. |
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Cross-sectional view of bacterial
biofilm obtained using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Microcolonies
(in green) have reached an average height of approximately 40 µm.
Substratum is just below where fluorescence stops. |
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