Faculty profile
Rob Ness
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Latest funding
- $130,803
Quantifying biofuel production in green microbes with evaporative light scattering
NSERC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $54,000
Causes and costs of mutation rate variation
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $84,000
Flow cytometry for high throughput microbial experimentation
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Quantifying biofuel production in green microbes with evaporative light scattering
Principal investigators: Phillips, Michael
Keywords: biofuels; photosynthetic microbes; synthetic biology; microbial engineering; cyanobacteria; carbon capture; sustainable energy; transferable skills; high pressure liquid chromatography
Causes and costs of mutation rate variation
Principal investigators: Ness, Rob
Keywords: mutation; genomics; population genetics; chlamydomonas reinhardtii; gene expression; fitness; evolution
Flow cytometry for high throughput microbial experimentation
Principal investigators: Ness, Rob
How recombination alters drift and selection in the genome
Principal investigators: Ness, Rob
Keywords: Adaptation; Bioinformatics; Genetic Drift; Genomics; Local adaptation; Mutation; Population genetics; Recombination; Selection; Soil microbiology
Environment chambers for multi-PI research facility at University of Toronto Mississauga
Principal investigators: Senatore, Adriano
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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