Carl Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA,a technique that has revolutionized microbiology. He also originated the RNA world hypothesis in 1967,although not by that name. Woese held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and was professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
Lloyd Norman Axworthy is a Canadian politician,elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament,he served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and as chancellor of St. Paul's University College. He is currently the Chair of the World Refugee &Migration Council.
Mihal "Mike" Lazaridis is a Canadian businessman,investor in quantum computing technologies,and co-founder of BlackBerry,which created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. In November 2009,Canadian Business ranked Lazaridis as the 11th wealthiest Canadian,with an estimated net worth of CA$2.9 billion.
Daniel Hunt Janzen is an American evolutionary ecologist and conservationist. He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania,where he is the DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology,and his research and field work in Costa Rica.
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of Natural History,Smithsonian Institution,in Washington,DC. Barcoding was proposed in 2003 by Prof. Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph in Ontario as a way of distinguishing and identifying species with a short standardized gene sequence. Hebert proposed the 658 bases of the Folmer region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome-C oxidase-1 as the standard barcode region. Hebert is the Director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario,the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding,and the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL),all headquartered at the University of Guelph. The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is also located at the University of Guelph.
T. Ryan Gregory is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and a Professor of the Department of Integrative Biology and the Division of Genomic Diversity within the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph,Ontario,Canada.
The University of Guelph is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph,Ontario,Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874),the MacDonald Institute (1903),and the Ontario Veterinary College (1922),and has since grown to an institution of almost 30,000 students and employs 830 full-time faculty as of fall 2019. It offers 94 undergraduate degrees,48 graduate programs,and 6 associate degrees in many different disciplines.
DNA barcoding is a method of species identification using a short section of DNA from a specific gene or genes. The premise of DNA barcoding is that by comparison with a reference library of such DNA sections,an individual sequence can be used to uniquely identify an organism to species,just as a supermarket scanner uses the familiar black stripes of the UPC barcode to identify an item in its stock against its reference database. These "barcodes" are sometimes used in an effort to identify unknown species or parts of an organism,simply to catalog as many taxa as possible,or to compare with traditional taxonomy in an effort to determine species boundaries.
Lila Kari is a Romanian and Canadian computer scientist,professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo,Canada.
Steven J. Cooke is a Canadian biologist specializing in ecology and conservation physiology of fish. He is best known for his integrative work on fish physiology,behaviour,ecology,and human-dimensions to understand and solve complex environmental problems. He currently is a Canada Research Professor in Environmental Science and Biology at Carleton University and the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Conservation Physiology.
The Barcode of Life Data System is a web platform specifically devoted to DNA barcoding. It is a cloud-based data storage and analysis platform developed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada. It consists of four main modules,a data portal,an educational portal,a registry of BINs,and a data collection and analysis workbench which provides an online platform for analyzing DNA sequences. Since its launch in 2005,BOLD has been extended to provide a range of functionality including data organization,validation,visualization and publication. The most recent version of the system,version 4,launched in 2017,brings a set of improvements supporting data collection and analysis but also includes novel functionality improving data dissemination,citation,and annotation. Before November 16,2020,BOLD already contained barcode sequences for 318,105 formally described species covering animals,plants,fungi,protists.
Philip Stratford was a Canadian translator,professor and poet. Winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Award,Stratford was also well recognized for his translations of works by Antonine Maillet,RenéLévesque and Robert Melaçon and published articles on English and French-Canadian literature and translation. He has been collected by libraries.
Professor Carol L. Prives FRS is the Da Costa Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. She is known for her work in the characterisation of p53,an important tumor suppressor protein frequently mutated in cancer.
Small subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid is the smaller of the two major RNA components of the ribosome. Associated with a number of ribosomal proteins,the SSU rRNA forms the small subunit of the ribosome. It is encoded by SSU-rDNA.
Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018,together with Gérard Mourou,for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario,Canada.
Microbial DNA barcoding is the use of DNA metabarcoding to characterize a mixture of microorganisms. DNA metabarcoding is a method of DNA barcoding that uses universal genetic markers to identify DNA of a mixture of organisms.
Gilbert Laporte is a full professor of operations research at HEC Montréal. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. Laporte has been awarded the Order of Canada and the Innis-Gérin Medal.
Winifred Hallwachs is an American tropical ecologist who helped to establish and expand northwestern Costa Rica's Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG). The work of Hallwachs and her husband Daniel Janzen at ACG is considered an exemplar of inclusive conservation.
Cheryl Marie Bartlett is a Canadian biologist. She is a professor emerita of biology and former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Integrative Science at the Department of Biology at Cape Breton University.
Jane Reid is an evolutionary ecologist from the UK,she is International Chair Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim,Norway and is also Professor of Population &Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Aberdeen.
