Au Québec, il existe encore peu d’études évaluant les effets aigus et chroniques des herbicides sur les plantes aquatiques enracinées. Une meilleure compréhension des effets des activités agricoles sur les herbiers aquatiques, particulièrement ceux du Lac St-Pierre, est nécessaire à une gestion/conservation adéquate de ces écosystèmes de grande valeur. Ce stage portera en grande partie […]

Dynamic bone turnover is associated with most bone disease, such as stress fractures (e.g., tibial shin splints), often seen in athletes and new military recruits. The key to successful diagnosis and treatment of bone stress fractures is early detection by diagnosis of excessive bone turnover. However, measuring bone metabolism using medical imaging is challenging, and […]

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 169 targets. The 2030 Agenda is universal and applies to all actors. The port industry (PI) is strategically positioned to contribute to the SDGs global achievement but faces a variety of challenges when it comes to implement them. […]

In about 4% of patients that have had an abdominal surgery ranging from a C-section, to appendectomy, to removal of the gall bladder, they will develop bands of scar tissue that can cause extreme pain and/or life-threatening complications such as bowel obstruction which requires emergency operation. The only temporary cure is a second operation which […]

Arsenic (As) contamination in rice paddies is a fundamental problem that can reduce crop yield, affect human health, and compromise food security. Moreover, rice paddies emit 30% of the methane produced by the agricultural sector. Aerating water during the growing season can mitigate As toxicity and uptake by rice, and reduce methane emissions; however, current […]

Influenza vaccination programs aim to protect the population during seasonal outbreaks and pandemics but current vaccines face a number of challenges including inefficient production, variable immunogenicity and rapidly waning protection. To address some of these challenges, the Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company Medicago has developed a technology for producing influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines in plants. This […]

The mineral mining industry in Canada is rapidly shifting toward more sustainable practices that reduce the environmental impacts of extraction, wastewater, and emissions. Although often overlooked, microorganisms, or bacteria, living in the soils and water of mine sites and mining waste materials, collectively known as the ““mining microbiome”, exert strong influence on all stages of […]

Having an efficient and scalable manufacturing production process of Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) vectors remains one of the most challenging problems in the industry for meeting the high demand of AAV for clinical application in gene therapy. The current production process of AAV relies on the co-transfection of three plasmids containing the main virus structural and […]

This research project is intended to implement and evaluate a machine learning framework utilizing multispectral imagery to optimize protein production efficiency from two Canadian livestock industries, dairy production and beef cattle production. The assessment protocol will include the surveillance of pathophysiological conditions (e.g. bovine respiratory disease, mastitis, estrus detection), animal well-being (e.g. stress susceptibility, lameness, […]

The primary goal of this project is to develop a robust testing strategy that can be utilized by Vireo Advisors Canada to help industries and regulators assess the environmental and health safety of ENMs. To accomplish this goal, I will validate commonly used and recently developed cell-based assays for potential engineered nanomaterial (ENM) interference and […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health disaster in over a century resulting in the death of nearly 6 million people world-wide. The virus has evolved over the last two years to highly transmissible variants, outpacing our efforts to contain it by mass vaccination. Effective drugs that can curtail the infection at early stages, […]

L’ensemble de la filière agricole est confronté aux maladies fongiques et les phénomènes de résistances face aux fongicides qui en découlent. Depuis 1990, des méthodes de Lutte Antiparasitaire Intégrée (LAI) tendent à faire évoluer les pratiques agricoles en prenant en compte l’apparition de ces résistances et les quantités d’intrants appliqués en champs pour prévenir les […]