Skeletal muscle, an essential organ system making up 30-40% of total body mass, is unique in that it allows for the body’s voluntary movement. It is solicited and stressed daily and consequently possesses the remarkable ability to regenerate in response to injury due to a special population of cells named muscle stem cells (MuSCS). At […]

This project plans to use dental calculus (miniralised plaque) samples to acquire a better understanding of the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the human oral microbiome. This will be the first metagenomic study regarding antibiotic resistance genes dating back to the Industrial Revolution (c. 1750-1850). We expect to detect some evidence of ARGs based […]

Depuis son institutionnalisation en 1970, la Francophonie n’a eu de cesse de faire évoluer ses caractéristiques identitaires. Elle est ainsi passée de centrer sur la France à une multitude de centres au sein de l’ensemble des pays francophones, et de culturelle à politique et diplomatique. Le projet de recherche s’attache alors à identifier, à travers […]

The quality of parent-child interactions is among the most important active ingredients of early language development. Many interventions, which vary in approach, content and format, focus on improving the quality of these interactions between children and their caregivers in order to promote early language development. Understanding the relationship between the characteristics of these interventions and […]

The overarching goal of my research is to investigate how the brain learns in order to develop brain-inspired learning algorithms that will reduce the computational cost for many machine learning applications. The standard learning algorithm (or learning rule) for training artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be extremely costly in terms of computation and storage, driving […]

The ability to simulate chemistry accurately allows for significant developments in many fields such as material and drug discovery. Unfortunately, the underlying equations that describe chemistry become exponentially harder to solve as we increase the size of the system. This makes it impossible for us to accurately simulate useful molecules on classical computers. A potential […]

Our goal is to employ a host of new compounds, made by the applicant in her lab in Brazil, for drug discovery studies at the University of Toronto. Specifically, the host uses a technique called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to obtain signatures of drugs or ligands. These signatures can identify those compounds which bind strongly […]

Cette recherche a pour but de contribuer à la recherche sur la coopération internationale et plus précisément la coopération inter-organisationnelle dans le cadre des opérations de la paix en Afrique. Les conflits étant de plus en plus nombreux et complexes, la coopération inter-organisationnelle est devenue extrêmement sollicitée, multipliant la présence d’acteurs dans les régions affectées […]

The aim of this project is to assess the long-term impacts of transport poverty in Canada using mixed methods approach. Transport poverty is the combined effect of transport disadvantage (including but not limited to inadequate public transport options, poor public transport accessibility, not owning or having access to car, perception of safety) and various socio- […]

The main challenge in using polymers in outdoor application is to extend their life time and make them stable against sunlight. Recently, graphene has been suggested as a new type of polymer photo-stabilizer to replace toxic and harmful photo-stablizers commonly used. The main challenge is to understand protective mechanisms of its action. Is it a […]

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to compare the SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data available from the north American/Canadian SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in mink to the Danish SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in mink, and compare genetic similarities. Moreover, a secondary aim is to investigate the antibody response in relation to SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Canadian mink to […]

Plants are fundamental to the survival of humankind. They create the oxygen we breathe, provide the food we consume, and supply raw materials for numerous industries. We want to know how plants cope with stress. This requires a deep understanding of how plant tissues and cells react to stress cues, which includes understanding how proteins […]