Dr. Scott Dunbar

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  www.ubyssey.bc.ca/2007/03/20/%e2%80%98ggeers-go-ga-ga-w - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 9/12/2007  

  Scott Dunbar, program director since 2000, sees IGEN as an essential addition to the UBC curriculum.
  
  "One of the problems with Engineering is that it doesn't always connect well to society," he said.
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  According to Dunbar, many Engineering firms are becoming more interested in the program, especially considering its emphasis on oral presentation and communications, two realms of Engineering that many employers often lament as a weak point for many grads.
  
  Many of the students who are drawn to IGEN tend to be entrepreneurial in their outlook, a skill that apparently serves them well, considering that all of Integrated Engineering's current students are already employed.
  
  Dunbar said that neither he nor any of the other professors gathered in UBC's Life Sciences Atrium have had anything to do with the projects.
  
  "The fun is at the boundary of disciplines," he said.

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  Scott Dunbar on biomining
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  Scott Dunbar is an associate professor in the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His recent work on biomining was highlighted in UBC Reports a few months ago - "The virus that binds: A novel idea marries biology and mining"

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  Published on: 7/23/2009    Last Visited: 7/24/2009  

  Professor Scott Dunbar of UBC's Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering would.
  
  "I read an article about bacteriophage-viruses that infect bacteria-being used to create nanodevices in which proteins on the phage surface are engineered to bind to gold and zinc sulfide," says Dunbar.
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  Dunbar has partnered with UBC colleagues Sue Curtis and Ross MacGillivray from the Centre for Blood Research and the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology to bring the idea from concept to laboratory.
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  When the entire library is exposed to the mineral of interest, these few will bind to the mineral," explains Dunbar. "You wash away the non-binding phage, then expose the binding phage to E. coli, which they infect and reproduce. The resulting phage would have DNA that contains the 'codes' for the binding proteins of interest. The procedure is repeated four or five times to amplify the number of binders. It's somewhat like breeding animals for particular features.
  
  "I knew we had phage that could bind specifically to sphalerite and to chalcopyrite," says Dunbar. "But then, so what? The phage had to do something to the mineral surfaces to be useful."
  
  It turns out that the phage that bind to a mineral do affect the mineral surfaces, causing them to have a different electrical charge than other minerals. The proteins on the phage also form links to each other leading to aggregation of the specific sulfide particles. "The physical and chemical changes caused by phage may be the basis for a highly selective method of mineral separation with better recovery. Another possible application is bioremediation, where metals are removed from contaminated water" says Dunbar.
  
  Dunbar and his colleagues are the first to apply phage to mineral processing. Their work is supported in part by the Applied Research and Technology group of Teck Corporation and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC.

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  Published on: 11/22/2007    Last Visited: 11/22/2007  

  W. Scott Dunbar, Ph.D, P.EngProgram Director, Associate Professor, Mining Engineering 517-6350 Stores Road (Frank Forward Building) Wayfinding at UBC | Get Google DirectionsTel: 604.822.4725 Fax: 604-822-5599

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  Can't make it to Scott Dunbar's Mining 101 course on Friday, March 13th?
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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC. Learn more >

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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC. Learn more >

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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC.
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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC. Learn more >

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  Can't make it to Scott Dunbar's Mining 101 course on Friday, March 13th?
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  Scott Dunbar's Mining 101 course has been announced for March 13th, 2009.
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  One of our most popular instructors, Dr. Scott Dunbar's experience includes mine economics, mining exploration, geotechnical engineering, mine design, design of tailings dams, water resources engineering and hydroelectric engineering. He has worked on projects in Canada, the United States, Central and South America, Iran, Africa, and China, and now teaches at UBC. Learn more >

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  Professor W. Scott Dunbar - University of British Columbia

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