In recent decades, the number of wild Atlantic Salmon returning to rivers of Eastern Canada has declined to unprecedented lows. One conservation effort by the Gespe’gewaq Mi’gmaq Resource Council (GMRC) was the construction of various sedimentation basins on Little Main Restigouche near Saint Quentin (NB). These basins are designed to prevent potato fields sediment from […]

The goal of this industry partnered project is to develop accessible online cognitive tests for children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Presently, Cambridge Brain Sciences is a leader in offering on-demand cognitive testing for typically-developing children and adults. An intern who is a graduate student in school […]

The goal of the project is to assess the biodiversity of a unique set of glacially derived kettle lakes on the Glencore property in Sudbury and to return to a remote set of lakes in Killarney Wilderness Park that were once impacted from smelter air emissions. Now 25 years later and following 98% reduction in […]

Early onset scoliosis (EOS) leads to severe, progressive three dimensional deformity of the spine in growing children, which is corrected either by external bracing or surgical placement of rods adjacent to the spine. Mice deficient in signaling through the type three fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR3-/-) develop scoliosis by four weeks, which worsens progressively with […]

Arthropods – particularly spiders and certain insects – provide pest management services to agricultural ecosystems in BC and elsewhere. However, very little work has been done to understand either the pest insects or the insect and spider species that might control them in BC’s central interior agroecosystems. For instance, this is no current catalog of […]

Using Simmunome simulations, researchers and companies can predict the likelihood of success or failure before embarking on, or continuing with, costly clinical development programs. We focus on understanding the biological system and applying this towards higher accuracy in disease simulations. We achieve this by using different types of data from various public and proprietary sources […]

Roller-massager is a convenient tool that uses upper body strength (rather than body weight) to move the roller across a muscle to imitate massage effects. Massage has been used to remove the knots and tensions sometimes found in muscle that can lead to pain and stiffness. It is not known if a roller massager can […]

Depression is an illness that impacts 1 in 6 people during their lifetime. While there exist a number of medications to treat this illness, half of those whom need them either do not respond or can not tolerate current medications because of side effects. Therefore there is an urgent need to develop new ways to […]

Gini Health has designed a personalized mHealth and eCounseling intervention for the management of Type 2 diabetes in the South Asian community. For this project, the intern will analyze and interpret secondary, anonymized data that have been collected by the Gini Health team in the implementation of their T2DM management program. Gini Health will benefit […]

Mycorrhizal fungi provide many benefits to plant health. However, their biodiversity is poorly-studied for Garry oak (Quercus garryana). Garry oak ecosystems are threatened in BC and these fungi could play a critical role in tree growth and survival, particularly with habitat loss and climate change providing additional stressors for this species. The proposed study will […]

The intern will use both the electronic and paper reference materials available at the University of Manitoba libraries to search for published articles and books on lupin seed with a focus on protein extraction methods as well as data reported for physicochemical and functional properties. The intern will then use the assembled literature materials to […]

Peatlands act as vast carbon (C) reservoirs by regulating decomposition over millennia. Considerable changes due to anthropogenic activities such as peat extraction have shifted long-term C sink to atmospheric C source. Previously, bioengineering tools as rewetting were used to reverse post-extracted peatland hydro-physical properties, and phenolic addition was used on small scale to test the […]