"For example, AI models could be used to improve molecular diagnostics to find new forms of multi-resistant bacteria or for monitoring wastewater treatment plants and environments where antibiotics are present," says Erik Kristiansson.
"We've been using phages' destructive power to kill bacteria and resolve infections for years," says Zeinab Hosseinidoust, an associate professor of biomedial and chemical engineering who holds the Canada Research Chair in Bacteriophage Bioengineering.
By engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria to live symbiotically inside yeast cells, the bacteria-yeast hybrids can produce important hydrocarbons, paving new biotechnical pathways to non-petroleum-based energy, other synthetic biology applications, and the experimental study of evolution.
