Annually, 2 million individuals in North America suffer mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or concussion (cost: $75 billion), with 200,000 in Canada. An objective tool is required to distinguish concussed subjects acutely from ontrols, and to predict who will develop chronic symptoms. The frontal lobes, the corpus callosum, and the thalamus play key roles in […]

Migration is a fundamentally important behaviour for animals to optimize their ability to acquire valuable forage which varies in its availability through space and time. Several species have been shown to time their migrations to coincide with the flush of new vegetation growth as it emerges along their migratory route. Understanding how individuals cope with […]

Mara Lake in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada, experienced a large algal bloom in 2010. Such algal blooms can be harmful to the health of humans and livestock, and can damage the ecological, recreational, and resource values of the lake. The algal bloom was associated with increased nutrient inputs from human land uses […]

Patients with coronary artery disease often present clinically with a cluster of vascular risk factors, which predispose them to stroke and can cause subtle deficits in cognitive performance. These deficits are believed to pertain, in part, to disease of the small blood vessels providing blood to the brain. Fitness is associated with better cognitive performance, […]

Stroke is one of the most prevalent neurological conditions worldwide, especially among the elderly. Motor impairment is one of the main disabilities associated with stroke. The ability of training and physical activity to restore motor function after neural injury has long been appreciated. Nevertheless, even with intensive task-specific training and physical activity, 15–30% of patients […]

1-Currently, cows can be “locomotion scored”. These scores include a category for ‘imperfect locomotion’ or ‘uneven gait’ to define a cow that is unsound (favoring one leg) but not clinically lame. However, this detection method does not discriminate whether locomotion originate from the foot or the leg. Claw lesions are easily diagnosed in a trimming […]

Globally, viruses cause more than half of deaths recorded in humans. Thus, lots of scientific research is ongoing to prevent viral-related disease and death. In addition to known harmful effects that viruses can have, other research has shown that viruses may be beneficial. For example, mammalian reoviruses can destroy certain types of cancer cells without […]

The research project is focused on the relationship between cancer and telomeres. It is intended to be a functional investigation of the dynamics of TERRA, a long non coding RNA transcribed at telomeres, and hTR, the telomerase RNA subunit, in human cancer cells. TERRA is an important molecule implicated in telomere maintenance and genome stability. […]

Ce projet de recherche, en cours, est mis en place en concertation avec les principaux acteurs de la filière laitière québécoise principalement les producteurs bovins, le ministère de l’agriculture, les chercheurs de la faculté de médecine vétérinaire et l’association des médecins vétérinaires praticiens du Québec. Le but de ce travail est d’améliorer les connaissances sur […]

The majority of license producers (LP) Cannabis producers have witnessed evidence of powdery mildew and grey mold and bud rot diseases. Plant yields and ultimate profitability can be severely undermined by these diseases. Medicinal plants produce essential oils in the form of secondary metabolites. The essential oils have the potential to be used as antibacterial, […]

In natural selection, differential fitness relies on the chromosomal shuffling during meiosis that enables the production of haploid gametes that are genetically different. However, meiotic-induced genetic variability can be an economic burden to the animal breeding industry since offspring often do not inherit the most desirable genes from their parents. Although genomic markers are currently […]

There are major areas of uncertainty concerning the exploitation and management of the sea cucumber (C. frondosa) industry in Atlantic Canada. This research project will address these gaps and give stakeholders a better understanding of C. frondosa, in order to make the best possible decisions relative to its management and conservation. The proposed research will […]