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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Production of in vitro and in vivo bison embryos derived from sexed semen – Year two

In mammals, the sperm determines the sex of the resulting offspring. Semen sexing is a process whereby sperm are sorted into Y- (male) or X-chromosome (female) bearing gametes. Sexed semen may be used for artificial insemination or in vitro embryo production to create offspring of a desired sex. In a zoo setting, fewer males are required because of their ability to breed multiple females. A collaborative effort between the University of Saskatchewan and the Toronto Zoo has been resulted in the birth of live wood bison calves from in vitro embryo production, cryopreservation, and embryo transfer. The objective of this project is to produce bison sexed (female) semen for use in both in vitro and in vivo embryo production at the University of Saskatchewan. The female embryos will then be cryopreserved and transported to the Toronto Zoo where they will be transferred to surrogate bison to produce live bison calves. This Mitacs internship with the Toronto Zoo will not only produce the first female bison calves from sex-sorted semen, but will also serve as proof-of-concept for the advancement of a bison germplasm biobank for both conservation and commercial application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregg Adams

Student:

Eric Matthew Zwiefelhofer

Partner:

Toronto Zoo

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Indigenous and Northern Centre for Innovation

The goal of this project is to support Indigenous economic development corporations in the establishment of technology-focused companies designed to introduce, test and market new and emerging technologies of potential application for Indigenous communities. At present, northern, remote and Indigenous communities are being left behind in the technological revolution. Companies do not reach out to First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities. The” innovation gap” is growing larger. This initiative will connect development corporations with start-up companies, corporations and researchers working on technologies of potential application in these communities. The tech development unit will evaluate and test the suitability of these technologies for northern and remote communities and peoples, examine the market potential locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and market and support selected technologies. The over-riding purpose is to ensure that Indigenous and northern communities gather the benefits from fast-moving technological innovations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ken Coates

Student:

Lokpriy Lokpriy

Partner:

Na-Cho Nyak Dun Development Corporation

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Evaluation of Interventions for Farm Machinery Operators to Improve Musculoskeletal and Cognitive Health

Producers and farm workers are exposed to whole-body vibration (WBV) on a regular basis when operating farm machinery. The short-term effect of WBV include cognitive impairment and musculoskeletal disorders, such as low back pain. To aid in promoting worker cognitive and musculoskeletal health, rest and/or activity breaks may provide relief from these hazards and can be implemented immediately without cash investment. For these breaks to be appealing, they must be effective in reducing adverse health effects from WBV exposure, and must be feasible for field implementation. This multidisciplinary project will develop, test, and evaluate effective activity break interventions for agricultural equipment operators in order to mitigate adverse cognitive and musculoskeletal health effects during prolonged WBV. Worker participation and engagement will be incorporated throughout this project, to advise in developing best practices for field testing implementation. Outcomes of this work will include a set of guidelines and recommendations for field-test implementation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephan Milosavljevic

Student:

Wadena Burnett

Partner:

Agrivita Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Agriculture

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Development of innovative approaches for the extraction and recovery of resources from gold-bearing materials

This project would address basic unanswered questions about how the application of environmentally benign process (i.e., biohydrometallurgy) on mine ores and tailings can leach and extract base and, precious that are essential for today’s “smarter” technologies. Bioprocessing methods for bio-extraction and bio-recovery of elements offer a new potential sustainable alternative compared to chemical conventional approaches. Rather than biohydrometallurgy, the proposed research program will also develop an economic process capable of recovering valuable metals directly from ores without the need for reprocessing. Therefore, this project will increase the flow-on benefit to the Quebec and Canada economy in a circular way. The results of this research will offer better management practices for tailing and reduced risks of environmental impacts and liabilities. Among HQP, 2 Ph.D.s and 1PDFs will be trained throughout the proposed research program. Such scientific and technological advances would significantly help for successful reclaiming mine tailings to address high-risk elements or effluents thereby reducing the overall volume of these waste in the long term.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satinder Kaur Brar

Student:

Mohammad Hossein Karimi Darvanjooghi;KamalPreet Kaur Brar;Javad Ghanei

Partner:

Centre technologique des résidus industriels

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Genes to affordable medicines – Stream 2-L

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is a not-for-profit public-private partnership research organization that aims to accelerate the discovery of new medicines through open science. This Mitacs cluster will bring together SGC’s industry and academic collaborators to work together towards new and affordable medicines for challenging diseases. Sixty-three post-doctoral fellows will spend 2-3 years developing open source tools and knowledge for previously understudied proteins, thereby unlocking new areas of biology and identifying new opportunities for drug discovery. SGC’s spin-offs, the M4 companies, will be the vehicles to translate this knowledge into new medicines for rare and challenging diseases that have been excluded from traditional pharma company programs. The M4 companies are committed to open science and sharing, and to affordable pricing to ensure patients can access the new drugs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cheryl Arrowsmith;Edward Fon;Peter McPherson;Thomas Durcan;Matthieu Schapira

Student:

Walaa Alshafie

Partner:

Structural Genomics Consortium

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Land capability modeling for the Canadian prairies towards ecosystem services offset protocols

Humanity faces the triple challenge of stabilizing climate, ensuring food security, and safeguarding nature. Innovative approaches for climate- and biodiversity-friendly agriculture capable of sustaining resilient production landscapes are urgently needed. Carbon markets offer a platform for market-driven solutions that incentivize soil carbon sequestration through nature-based solutions. Canada employs a cap-and-trade scheme for domestic carbon credit trading on route to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Prairie grasslands are fundamental to meeting Canada’s climate targets owing to the significant soil carbon debt attributable to decades of unsustainable practices and agricultural conversion. However, currently there is no grassland protocol in Canada to verify the carbon offsets generated through improved grassland management, grassland restoration, and/or avoided conversion of native grasslands. The proposed research aims to (1) model carbon sequestration-storage potential of Canada’s prairie grasslands; (2) assess the economics of using carbon-offsets for grassland conservation and restoration within Canada’s Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change; and (3) model the biodiversity-habitat value of Canada’s prairie grasslands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Monireh Faramarzi

Student:

Timm Fabian Döbert

Partner:

Perimeter Solar

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Bullying Purposely Left Out?: Canada’s amended Labour Code and its potential impact on Indigenous workers

Workplace discrimination is common for Indigenous people (1,2). Unacceptable behaviours may take place at work, such as threats, intimidation, or violence (2). The workplace is a location where behaviour labeled as ‘bullying’ occurs (1,3). When examining Indigenous workers, the impacts of behaviour defined as bullying (and the mere act of defining the behaviour as bullying rather than racism, violence or harassment) may be exacerbated given the unique history of Indigenous people. My proposed research on bullying behaviours experienced at work by the Indigenous population has been largely overlooked by existing research on bullying at work and on the legislative and legal response to it. This study is timely in Canada and will contribute significantly to the literature on workplace bullying, violence, racism and harassment. Monique Gignac and the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) will partner on this project. Mutual benefits will be generated as the IWH currently doesn’t have a strong Indigenous research program but can provide strong psychosocial theoretical approaches to workplace health and safety. The connections with Indigenous workers through this project will add to the understanding of how Indigenous people identify their workplace climate and culture as it relates to ‘bullying’ behaviours, racism, violence and harassment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vicki Kristman

Student:

Robyn Alexandria O'Loughlin

Partner:

Institute for Work & Health

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Elevate

Advancing Tele-Rheumatology Platform

This project is the extension project of the previous Tele-rheumatology project. In the previous project, we have designed and developed three components: hardware platform, which is the capturing device for rheumatoid arthritis patience movements by using both 2D and 3D cameras; the capture system, which is used by general practitioners to control the hardware platform; and the physician portal, which provides all the captured information from patience to rheumatologists for diagnose purpose. Based on the result and achievement in the first project, we have identified some issues and the components that we can further improve. This extension project will be used for resolving these issues as well as enhance the performance of the current implementation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Czarnuch

Student:

Chengsi Zhang;Zizui Chen

Partner:

77711 Newfoundland and Labrador Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

A Phase 2, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutic-2 (MET-2) in Patients with Major Depression

Evidence has shown considerable individual variability in bacterial content of the gut microbiota, which is hypothesized to influence brain function. Research examining this relationship suggests that microbiota transplantation may aid in improving depression symptoms by recolonizing the gastrointestinal tract with healthy bacteria. The study will examine the effects of a microbial therapeutic composed of various strains of gut bacteria from a healthy donor on mood. Treatment-naïve adults diagnosed with major depression will orally consume once daily either an encapsulated microbial therapeutic, containing various strains of bacteria purified and lab-grown from a single healthy donor stool or a placebo, for 6 weeks. We expect to observe an improvement in depressive symptoms following treatment, and that this improvement will be mediated GI tract recolonization with healthy bacteria. The findings of this study may be the first to provide evidence for the role of microbial therapy in alleviating symptoms of depression.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roumen Milev

Student:

Cassandra Sgarbossa;Arthi Chinna Meyyappan

Partner:

NuBiyota Canada

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Application of Light Detection and Ranging in Right-of-Way Management Program

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure variable distances. These pulses are combined with other data (Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and inertial navigation system (INS)) to precisely obtain the position of points over the shape of the earth and its surface characteristics. The capability of LiDAR to collect an enormous amount of data makes it perfect for pipeline right-of-way (ROW) management. However, handling a large dataset and extracting the features of interest is challenging and it requires intelligent and fast algorithms to automate the process. Machine and deep learning models are able to efficiently and progressively classify different objects from LiDAR datasets which enables us to check the surroundings of the pipelines which will be addressed in this research project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shabnam Jabari

Student:

Morteza Esfandiari

Partner:

McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Additive Manufacturing of Automotive Components

As an additive manufacturing (AM) technique, the laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) process produces metal objects layer-by-layer using a laser source. This project aims at increasing and improving the implementation of additive manufacturing (AM) technology in the automotive industry for producing lightweight heat exchangers. The proposed research is focused on developing technologies for designing automotive components with the aid of integrating topology optimization into the design process while exploiting the capabilities of metal additive manufacturing. The project also aims at monitoring part defects during the laser powder-bed fusion of metals using acoustic emission technique. Weight minimization and topology optimization subject to constraints on mechanical and thermal loads are major research issues in this project. The overall research objective of this proposal is to develop a comprehensive approach for the production of lightweight automotive components by integrating topology optimization with novel additive manufacturing technologies using L-PBF.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mo Elbestawi

Student:

Mahmoud Seyam;Shekhar Rammohan Singh Tandel;Evgenia Tifbenkel

Partner:

FCA Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Quantitative and Inexpensive Opioid Detector for Clinical Use

The opioid epidemic is a serious health crisis and opioid treatment strategies are at the forefront of efforts to tackle this crisis. Replacement therapy is the current approach taken using medications such as methadone. To be more effective, the dosage needs to be tailored to individual tolerance which requires a point-of-care type analytical measurement of the patient’s existing opioid level. This proposal takes an existing proof-of-concept opioid detection device and adapts it for use in the clinical setting to address this challenge, quickly determining the patient’s tolerance level in a day compared to the current standard of care that would take a few weeks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dan Bizzotto;Glenn Sammis

Student:

Daniel Jun

Partner:

Vancouver General Hospital

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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