La connectivité écologique est un des attributs les plus importants pour le maintien de la qualité de l’habitat et de la bioiversité présents sur le territoire. La mission de la compagnie Eco2Urb est d’assister les grands propriétaires d’écosystèmes et d’infrastructures naturelles pour augmenter la résilience de leur réseau écologique au bénéfice de la biodiversité ainsi […]

Le secteur industriel forestier traverse une période difficile due à plusieurs causes, dont le manque appréhendé de bois. Divers organismes gouvernementaux et non gouvernementaux ont trouvé dans la sylviculture intensive et le zonage forestier (TRIADE) une façon de faire face à ce problème. À son tour, la sylviculture intensive doit résoudre certains inconvénients comme l’établissement […]

Proteins are important molecules. They are the workhorses of your cells and increasingly, they are being developed as new drugs (biopharmaceuticals). Proteins are large and complex and determining their properties is difficult. Our best tools for this are very impractical to use in a high throughput setting, where 100’s of samples need analyzing. In this […]

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men and a major cause of cancer deaths. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the first-line therapy for metastatic prostate cancer but invariable the cancer regrows despite the androgen deprivation – this regrowth is termed castrate resistant prostate cancer. We have discovered that expression of a specific gene […]

Listeria monocytogenes is a common food-borne pathogen that is the causative agent of listeriosis, a severe and potentially fatal condition. Current methods for detection of L. monocytogenes in food samples require multiple days due to lengthy amplification steps to aid in microbe detection. Due to the recent emergence of nanoparticle technology, however, new options are […]

The Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW, Orcinus orca) population is assessed at 73 individuals, and significant threats include high levels of endocrine disrupting contaminants, alongside other anthropogenic threats. Studies have painted a partial picture of the contaminants of concern in the SRKW food web. For example, preliminary studies of chinook salmon suggest that some resident […]

The ripening of fleshy fruits such as apple, pears and tomatoes results in a coordinated change in texture, nutritional characteristics, color, flavor and aroma, and initiates senescence processes that reduce shelf life. Fresh market apples are often treated with 1- methylcyclopropene and stored under controlled atmosphere conditions to delay ripening and extend the supply period […]

The current aesthetic of urban greenspaces as uniform lawns creates a variety of environmental and social-medical issues. Highly managed lawns not only reduce urban biodiversity and contribute to greenhouse gas emission but are also susceptible to invasions from nuisance pests and highly allergenic weeds. This project builds on existing research in the City of Trois-Rivières […]

La réalisation de ce projet de recherche mènera à l’obtention d’informations pertinentes relatives à la conception et à l’opération d’une technologie simple de biofiltration permettant l’abattement des émissions de méthane (un puissant gaz à effet de serre), des odeurs et des composés odorants émis par des bâtiments agricoles. Cette technologie est 1) construite à partir […]

Evolution of the on-ice sport equipment, namely skate boots and blades, has been primarily driven by the users; however, there is a lack of scientific evidence supporting the link between skate boot/blade design and set up as it translates to optimal on ice skating technique and performance. We are proposing a new academic-industrialsport research collaboration […]

Many young adults are affected by tooth sensitivity stimulated by eating or drinking something hot, cold, sweet or acidic, which impacts their life quality. Tooth sensitivity can start when the softer, inner part of the tooth called dentin becomes exposed. The dentin contains a large number of parallel microtubules that run from the outside of […]

Vitamin D compounds are being developed for the treatment of chronic kidney disease. The purpose of this proposal is to develop a cell-based screening platform that will allow the rapid assessment of relative efficacy of a library of compounds. The intern will use recombinant DNA methodology to generate a cell-based assay in which the green […]