With the increase of human impacts on the ocean, more effective and engaging environmental education is needed to inspire action. The Galiano Conservation Association (GCA) aims to educate the public about marine conservation issues around Galiano island. The intern will help GCA to understand how to improve their marine education program, using underwater video technology […]

Ineffective diagnosis of bacterial infections leads to excess healthcare costs of $25 billion/year worldwide due to transmission of infections while waiting for diagnosis, unnecessary antibiotic treatments and resulting increased drug resistance, etc. Point-of-care molecular testing can help provide timely and effective diagnoses leading to better (and more cost-effective) patient management. Markets where point-of-care testing would […]

Mon sujet de doctorat porte sur les capacités d’adaptation de grands herbivores face aux variations de leur environnement. Je m’intéresse particulièrement aux aspects liés aux soins maternels, tels que la date de naissance et la composition du lait maternel. L’hypothèse de base derrière mon projet stipule que les activités liées aux soins maternels devraient coïncider […]

Bull trout in the upper Fraser watershed (UFW) of British Columbia are important top predators and serve as the basis of a recreational fishery. Anglers in the region have asked government to consider changing current fishing regulations for bull trout from catch-and-release to regulations that allow them to take a portion of their catch home. […]

This study aims to develop a scoring system to screen the sub-clinical forms of rotator cuff tears and predict the tear progression. All the medical, genetic, work, and lifestyle backgrounds of individuals with rotator cuff defects (with and without symptoms) will be evaluated and a battery of manual tests and measurements will be performed to […]

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematological cancer in Canada, affecting an estimated 2,300 people in 2011. Farm work is most consistently associated with an increased risk of MM. Occupational exposure to pesticides has been linked to increased MM risk in Canadian and European studies. Previous investigations mostly focused on individual pesticide exposures, […]

Torque steadiness (TS) is the ability to maintain torque around a given target torque level and is representative of functional movement control. In unilateral lower-limb amputees, plantarflexor TS is reduced. The Achilles tendon plays a critical role in the required transfer of torque from muscle to bone to maintain TS. To-date, no study has investigated […]

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary adult brain tumor. Even with surgery, standard chemotherapy, and radiation, tumor recurrence and patient relapse are inevitable with a median survival rate of

Le contrôle de la croissance des arbres est une activité très importante pour Hydro-Québec puisqu’il assure la qualité et l’efficience de son réseau de distribution d’électricité. Ce projet de recherche vise à (1) améliorer nos connaissances sur les mécanismes de base régissant la croissance des arbres, (2) développer de nouvelles techniques et approches pour émonder […]

Recent neurophysiological studies using the so-called frequency tagging methodology have shown that the human brain is able to track the grammatical structure of spoken sentences even if low-level acoustic (intonational) cues marking phrase boundaries are removed from the speech signal. These results opened a window towards naturalistic investigation of grammar processing and learning. However, currently […]

While satellite cell (SC) activation underpins muscle repair, function requires reinnervation of new myotubes. During early differentiation in repair, SC-derived myoblasts also upregulate expression of a neural chemorepellent, semaphorin3A (Sema3A), thought to mediate axonal ingrowth toward regenerating myotubes. Recent findings indicate that disrupted timing of Sema3A expression (by early SC activation) delays the time-course of […]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common types of neurodegenerative disorders and the development of an effective treatment remains a challenge for researchers today. The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) which are closely related with AD, especially the alpha-7-nAChR, are involved in neuroprotective effects (effects which may result in the salvage, recovery or regeneration […]