Sensitive gas sensors are urgently needed for the detection of biomarkers for disease prevention and greenhouse gas emissions for environmental monitoring. Dynamic cantilever gas sensors work by oscillating the cantilever to its natural resonance frequency by typical MEMS (micro electromechanical system)-based actuation methods. The adsorption of a target gas on the cantilever increases its mass […]

Serial electron diffraction (serial-ED) crystallography is an emerging structural biology method whereby data are collected from protein nanocrystals using a sub-micron-sized electron beam. The method is set to lead the future of nanocrystallography, given its cost-effectiveness and the small amount of sample required. Combining the expertise of the Colletier and Miller teams, the project will […]

This project is a cross-disciplinary study of econometrics and machine learning (ML) models applied to the decision making modelling in industry. The problematic arises from the lack of tools supporting the transition to circular economics model and the need to identify the key factors to influence this transition. The project aims to explore the key […]

Computer-based multimodal affect recognition methods fuse multiple informational channels, typically video, audio, and text, to resolve the emotional state of a monitored individual. The proposed research aims to develop multimodal deep learning models to recognize anomalous emotional responses, which correspond to a deviation from the expected affective reaction for a particular context. Since multimodal affect […]

La métabolomique est une science prometteuse pour identifier de nouveaux marqueurs biologiques associés à l’insuffisance cardiaque à fraction d’éjection préservée (HFpEF), afin d’améliorer son diagnostic et son traitement. Notre projet vise l’utilisation de méthodes de bioinformatiques et d’intelligence artificielle pour l’analyse de données métabolomiques et lipidomiques de patients HFpEF, précédemment générées et prétraitées dans nos […]

State-of-the-art polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), based on membranes like Nafion© have achieved a mature level of performance and cost reductions. To enable new cell concepts, allowing further steps in cost reduction of the whole fuel cell system in the future, it is vital to maintain a high commitment in research on catalyst and electrolyte […]

An organism’s genome contains the information necessary for its development. Part of this information is used as “instructions” for cells to synthesize molecules called proteins, which perform most of the cell’s functions. However, over time, changes to the genomic information can occur. These changes (mutations) can have all kinds of effects: some might cause diseases, […]

Plastics pollution is a global environmental hazard with a wide range of impacts on wildlife, biodiversity, food webs, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Of particular concern are microplastics (including nanoplastics) because their small sizes enhance their long-range transport, their uptake by biota and the capacity to sorb and leach contaminants. The proposed project will focus […]

Architected materials are those which have a designed microscopic structure or “microstructure”. They of exhibit material properties which are not attainable by conventional materials. One important field of application for these materials is bone biomechanics, in which the search for suitable bone biosubstitutes is of high scientific and clinical importance. For example, architected materials are […]

Cholinergic compounds can act as both pharmaceuticals and bioactive compounds in functional foods. Alpha-Glycerylphosphoryl choline (alpha-GPC) is a known cholinergic compound that is used in Korea as a prescription pharmaceutical for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. However, development as a functional food and related researches in Korea is limited. Recently, the team led by Dr. Martin […]

A fusion reactor is a device capable of producing even more power than a fission reactor, with carbon free emissions and no long lived radioactive waste. No fusion reactor exists as of yet, though the tokamak design is a promising candidate. The goal of a modern tokamak is to produce a fourth state of matter, […]

L’objectif du projet présenté ici est d’établir le potentiel d’utilisation de plantes indigènes et de leur combinaison face à la décontamination du triclosan au sein d’infrastructures phytotechnologiques innovatrices ; des marais filtrants intégrés aux paysages québécois. Pour ce faire, des marais en mésocosmes seront mis en place en fonction de la diversité, de la capacité […]