Ambrosia beetles are an excellent example for invasive species that show unusual success in establishing in new regions outside their native range. They pose threat to forest ecosystems and plant nurseries in many continental regions, where they were introduced. They have a mutualistic relationship with a group of fungi called ‘ambrosia’ which they carry with […]

Blindness resulting from inflammatory ocular conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and progressive keratoconus (PK) is increasing around the world as populations age. Together they affect over 8 million individuals in N. America alone with up to one in four of those over 80 being at risk. Despite this, treatments for such conditions are […]

Skeletal muscle plays several different roles in the promotion and maintenance of health and well-being. The loss of muscle mass that occurs with aging, chronic muscle wasting diseases, and physical inactivity puts people at an increased risk of frailty and becoming insulin resistant. Some individuals fail to increase the size of their muscle following (low […]

Psilocybin is a promising pharmaceutical compound that is currently undergoing development for therapeutical use in Canada. Many people who take psilocybin report heightened sensation, improved perception, and better focus after taking a micro-dose (e.g., 10-20% of the full clinical dose). Atlhough micro-dosing has gain popularity in neuro-hacking circles and in some popular literature, very few […]

Des modifications du contenu en bactéries intestinales (flore intestinale) pourraient contribuer à la sévérité des symptômes des troubles du spectre de l’autisme. Le déséquilibre entre ‘bonnes’ et ‘mauvaises’ bactéries pourrait influencer les symptômes gastrointestinaux et le fonctionnement du cerveau. La prise de probiotiques est une façon pouvant permettre de modifier la flore intestinale. Nous voulons […]

The oceans today are under a variety of stressors including warming, acidification, eutrophication, and deoxygenation. Due to their increasing impacts on marine environments, there is a huge push for new monitoring and environmental assessment techniques to understand and mitigate change. Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to the tiny pieces of DNA shed by all living things […]

This project will assess how boat noise affects parental care and mating vocalizations in plainfin midshipman fish, which are highly sensitive to sound and spend months caring for their eggs in coastal areas prone to high boat traffic. Using two field experiments, we will test whether these fish alter their vocalizations or parental behaviours in […]

Children diagnosed with cancer undergo complex and intensive chemotherapy treatments that often require repeated hospital visits and admissions. Advancement in technology has now made chemotherapy and other cancer care possible to be administered at home. However, there are currently no formal evaluation comparing these two modes of delivery. Therefore, the proposed study will compare psychosocial […]

The goal of the proposed project is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for reasons unrelated to COVID-19 (e.g., person injured in a car accident). We hypothesize that, due to high occupancy caused by COVID-19 and the resulting strain in health care delivery, patients […]

Notre projet vise à compléter le développement d’un instrument d’évaluation conçu pour mieux comprendre le contexte de vie des personnes âgées vivant avec un trouble neurocognitif (ex. maladie d’Alzheimer), afin de faciliter leur maintien à domicile. Le but de cet instrument d’évaluation est d’obtenir une meilleure compréhension de l’interaction entre la personne âgée présentant un […]

Strokes and myocardial infarctions, caused by the rupture of unstable atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid and coronary arteries, are the leading causes of death world-wide. Current clinical guidelines recommend surgical removal of plaques based solely on the degree of artery stenosis. However, stenosis alone is an incomplete determinant of stroke/heart attack risk, leading to suboptimal […]

Candida auris est une nouvelle espèce de Candida découverte depuis 2009, qui s’est propagée dans six continents, causant des épidémies nosocomiales de candidoses invasives. La mortalité élevée et la transmissibilité rendent C. auris un pathogène fongique dangereux pour la santé publique. De plus, C. auris peut développer des résistances à toutes les classes d’antifongiques (azoles, […]