Primary Objective: In this pilot project, in the short term, we propose to explore the risks associated with noise overexposure in music practice, to test innovative prevention strategies and to develop an auditory assessment protocol that responds to the specific or expressed needs of musicians and to test its feasibility (e.g. duration, number of sessions, […]

Water resource management has been a challenge facing many regions worldwide, including Vietnam and Canada. Reservoirs are crucial in water management. The project is to further the intern’s PhD research on improving the reservoir operational rule with a case study of Thac Mo Reservoir in southern Vietnam. A model combining a rainfall-runoff framework, reservoir operating […]

Plants face various challenges when they grow. They are attacked by numerous diseases and this can negatively affect their growth and productivity. Plants have complex means of defending against diseases. In order to create disease resistant crops it is important to first understand how plants are able to defend against these diseases and understand how […]

The Salvation Army currently works in 132 countries, promoting international development, disaster relief, health care, education, anti-trafficking/anti-slavery work, and women’s ministries throughout the world. How did a small British outreach develop into a world-wide humanitarian organization? My proposed research will examine The Salvation Army’s global expansion from 1880-1918 by studying the Booth family. Much research […]

After severe skin injury such as burns, our body rapidly but imperfectly repairs the damage, leaving behind a stiff scar. Scarring is a clinical burden because skin is losing vital functions. If scars form in internal organs, e.g., in the heart after myocardial infarct, the outcome can be lethal. During normal tissue repair, local fibroblasts […]

My research seeks to identify species that are valuable socially and ecologically to fishers in Chilika (a coastal fishing community in India). To achieve this, I will interview fishers from three ecologically diverse communities to ask what fish are important for (but not limited to) nutrition, livelihoods, culture, biological communities. I will observe how this […]

Chez les vertébrés, le mode de reproduction le plus fréquent est la reproduction sexuée, ce qui implique la fusion de gamètes, soient l’ovule et le spermatozoïde, provenant de deux parents de sexes opposés. Dans certains cas rares, le mode de reproduction d’une espèce peut devenir asexuée c’est-à-dire, une reproduction par soi-même. Chez les vertébrés, ces […]

Ce projet analyse les liens qui lient les mouvements indépendantistes européens à l’Union européenne. Plus précisément, il s’agit de comprendre pourquoi les mouvements indépendantistes européens cherchent à protéger leur lien à l’Union européenne dans leur quête de souveraineté. Ce projet analyse donc les raisons stratégiques qui poussent le mouvement indépendantiste écossais à vouloir ramener l’Écosse […]

Developing a sensor to detect nutrients in plants, replacing wet chemical analysis, has many advantages including rapid understanding of the nutrient status and the ability to scan wide areas of the field. The sensing principle is based on detecting spectral patterns of the leaves and relating them to nutrient availability in the petiole. However, such […]

My research focuses on understanding the mechanism of action of a new class of tumor suppressor genes using the well established round worm (nematode) model system. Previously published data from Gupta and Chamberlin lab have shown that deleting the function of these genes causes excessive proliferation of cells (similar to cancerous growth). To further understand […]

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 […]