Bromeliads are tropical plants, terrestrial or epiphytic, that grow in the shape of a rosette. Some of them form water tanks, which can harbor a variety of aquatic organisms, primarily invertebrate species, that build complex food webs. The general goal of this project is to understand ecological and evolutionary processes that drive the assembly and […]

My doctoral project targets new solutions to recycle waste heat by turning it into electrical power. In particular, clean electrical power can be generated in a semiconductor when a temperature difference does exist between the hot and the cold side of said material. Our group at INRS-EMT has started a unique research line in Canada […]

L’endométriose est une maladie responsable de 30% de tous les cas d’infertilités chez la femme. Elle se caractérise par la présence de tissus endométriaux à l’extérieur de l’utérus formant des lésions d’endométrioses douloureuses. Les traitements médicaux actuels sont très limités et peuvent uniquement être administrés de 6 à 9 mois en raison de leur effets […]

This project is a data collection project; the collected data will be part of a greater project that will aim to demonstrate using microchemistry that commercially important fish stocks of Caranx caninus, Lutjanus argentiventris and Lutjanus novemfasciatus that are regularly fished from Bahía de Navidad use Barra de Navidad lagoon as a nursery area. Adults […]

Un grand nombre de variétés linguistiques disparaîtront probablement au cours des prochaines décennies. Leur documentation revêt une grande importance pour les communautés minoritaires, mais également pour la linguistique, car une théorie du langage ne devrait pas s’appuyer uniquement sur les langues majoritaires. Ce sujet reste problématique car il implique plusieurs acteurs, notamment les membres des […]

Are we using surgical simulation the right way? At present, the surgical curriculum uses simulation mainly to familiarize students with instruments and surgical techniques or as an objective assessment of skills performance. What if we could use surgical simulation to personalize the teaching of a surgeon in training (surgery resident)? This research will use eye-tracking […]

Aerosol deposition (AD) is a modification of low pressure cold spray technology which allows the deposit of ceramic based coatings. AD technology in a vacuum allows the formation of dense and well adhering ceramic films from sub-micro and nanoparticles directly at room temperature. The AD technology is still under development to cover more applications and […]

Mortality bias is the concept that because non-survivors have passed away, they may be the frailest or most vulnerable members of a population. Thus, they may not accurately represent the biology of the whole population to which they belonged. However, these deceased individuals are precisely the ones examined by physical anthropologists working in both archaeological […]

A person’s risk of experiencing a bony fracture increases with age. In addition to simply the loss of bone volume that occurs due to aging, there are also microstructural changes that contribute to the increased risk. The latter have been poorly studied to date. Trabecular packets (also known as hemiosteons) are the microstructural constituents of […]

Current approaches to food policy and governance have resulted in a range of social, environmental and economic problems, including inequity and food insecurity among Indigenous people. Projects in Canada and Australia have shown promising approaches to achieving more sustainable food systems, a central piece being constructing meaningful relationships between settler and Indigenous peoples. Building on […]

Representation theory of algebras is an active area of research with numerous contributions to different areas of pure mathematics and theoretical physics. This is because it often represents very technical and complicated concepts in terms of concrete oriented graphs that are equipped with some additional data. In this area, as any other mathematical concept, the […]

Ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) living in the metropolitan area of Montreal (QC, Canada) have been documented to be highly exposed to a class of industrial and potentially toxic contaminants, the halogenated flame retardants (HFRs), that might also negatively affect humans. Interestingly, those gulls showed intraspecific variations in tissular concentrations in HFRs, related to their foraging […]