Le projet vise à optimiser la production d’un nouvel antibiotique conçu pour traiter les infections du pis chez les vaches, causées par Staphylococcus aureus. Ces infections coûtent très cher à l’industrie laitière et les traitements actuels sont souvent inefficaces ou contrôlés en médecine vétérinaire. Le stagiaire travaillera avec le centre de recherche appliquée Kemitek pour […]

Electroencephalogram (EEG) setup and application are time consuming (current solutions involve ~50.3 minutes of setup/patient or participant) and requires expert application (making it inaccessible to many). The extensive time to setup EEGs limits the number of research participants and patients that a researcher or clinician can see in one day. This problem directly impacts research […]

Organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB) are important agents of bioremediation, helping to clean up groundwater contaminated with toxic compounds such as chloroform, perchloroethene (PCE), and chlorobenzene. This metabolic pathway relies on enzymes known as reductive dehalogenase homologs (RdhAs). The mechanisms by which RdhAs reduce organohalides remains elusive, particularly in the case of the Chloroflexi OHRB Dehalococcoides and […]

Over 170 million persons worldwide are chronically infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV), leading to endstage liver disease and cancer. HCV is the single most common indication for liver transplantation in Canada and the rest of the Western world. After transplant, HCV re-infection is universal and is the chief cause of graft loss. Treatment of […]

Secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) is a protein that is more produced by athletes (muscles) compared to sedentary individuals. We have previously shown that this protein is responsible for some exercise-induced effects, its injections also produce exercise-like effects, and its decrease/absence speeds up ageing. Therefore, SPARC could be an exercise substitute – […]

The proposed project will address the research question: what is the role of relatedness in shaping spatial and social associations of St. Lawrence Estuary belugas? This work is proposed in partnership with the Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM), which is a non-profit organization dedicated to both scientific research on the whales […]

The aim of this internship is to investigate the possibility of a scaled-up green process to design, and develop an industrial plant to remove the hazardous materials from spent secondary materials such as spent petrochemical catalysts, in Atlantic Canada. The intern will be responsible to develop a whole process flow diagram, as well as a […]

La santé et la sécurité au travail reposent en grande partie sur les gestes quotidiens posés par les travailleurs pour se protéger et protéger les autres. Afin de mieux comprendre et soutenir ces comportements, une équipe de recherche québécoise a développé un outil de mesure : l’Échelle de fréquence des comportements préventifs au travail. Cet […]

The objective of this project is to develop decellularized extracellular matrix-based biomaterials suitable for extrusion bioprinting that capture the properties of breast cancer that has metastasized to the lung, and then to use these biomaterials to culture cells into human tissues that can be used as accurate models for preclinical drug development.

Youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to develop heart disease as adults, partly because they face more challenges meeting physical activity, screen time, and sleep recommendations. This study will examine how improving these movement behaviours during adolescence could reduce future health inequalities. Using data from a long-term United States study that has followed […]

La stagiaire participera à la conception d’encres pharmaceutiques pour l’impression 3D de comprimés mâchables destinés à l’usage pédiatrique. Cette nouvelle technologie permet de fabriquer de façon rapide et sécuritaire des imprimés gélifiés contenant une dose personnalisée d’un ou plusieurs médicaments. La stagiaire mettra au point de nouvelles formulations d’encres imprimables et en assurera la caractérisation, […]

This project will explore the use of virtual reality (VR) to reduce the need for sedative medication during breast surgeries performed under regional anesthesia. Currently, patients undergoing these procedures often receive intravenous sedative medication to ease anxiety, which can lead to complications like breathing problems or longer recovery times. VR immersion, which has already been […]