The Ecosystem Services, Commercialization Platforms and Entrepreneurship (ECOSCOPE) industrial stream NSERC CREATE training program provides UBC students and post-docs with the skills needed to translate environmental sequence information derived from studying microbial communities in natural and engineered ecosystems into commercial and entrepreneurial activities. ECOSCOPE increases capacity for highly qualified personnel (HQP) training in microbial ecology and biological engineering, allowing for internships in start-up environments, and providing professional and entrepreneurial training to augment research skills and empower HQP to commercialize their innovations.

We live in a microbial worldMicroorganism are the invisible majority of living things on Earth. There are more microorganisms on the planet at any given time than all the stars in the known universe. ECOSCOPE trains the next generation of scientist-entrepreneurs to harness the cooperative power of microbial communities and devise solutions to extract materials and energy from the environment in a sustainable way. |
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