Deer populations have increased in recent years throughout Europe; deer browsing of plants and tree seedlings is an important contributor to the overall species composition of the forest. Over the last decades, data has been collected in several forests throughout France, measuring deer browsing activities and their effects on the understory diversity, based on fencing […]

La fissuration au jeune âge des bétons est trop souvent présente et difficile à prédire. Les bétons développent d’importantes contraintes de traction internes qui peut mener à la fissuration lorsqu’ils sont soumis aux effets du séchage. L’objectif de recherche est de développer des bétons qui auront une tendance à la fissuration significativement réduite. Le programme […]

I will be studying within the Archives Nationales and the Bibliotheque Nationale of France to uncover information regarding the foundations of how the international community created communications regarding health and disease to try to prevent epidemics. I will be focusing on the International Sanitary Conferences and the records of the Office International d’Hygiène Publique to […]

Ce projet de thèse vise à étudier les relations entre les traits fonctionnels des plantes et un gradient de fertilité du sol. Pour ce faire, il est nécessaire de développer une méthode et un modèle pour quantifier la fertilité générale d’un sol, qui soit applicable à l’échelle d’une communauté à un ensemble d’espèces. En effet, […]

Collision avoidance can be described as a whole-body movement control problem in which visual information is used to elicit accurate movement adaptations. Previous research has demonstrated that children lack knowledge about their own action capabilities as well as the ability to use vision to properly guide actions in static environment. Little is known about how […]

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severely debilitating and lethal disease affecting approximately 1in 3,500 male births. In a seminal discovery, the Rudnicki lab discovered that deficits in muscle stem cell asymmetric divisions is a part of the underlying mechanism that results in the progressive wasting of skeletal muscles found in DMD. Dystrophin protein, the […]

This project uses computer-based molecular simulations to determine physical and chemical properties of a class of molecules known as alkanolamines dissolved in water designed to absorb carbon dioxide from industrial exit streams. These properties are important in helping select individual alkanolamines to be used as solvents in post-combustion carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). CCS is […]

It is known that music can enhance emotional and verbal communication in individuals who have difficultly doing so. Additionally, it has also been established that music is strongly linked to and can stimulate motor areas in the brain, and may potentially be an interesting aid to motor learning. The overarching goal of the project is […]

Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen which is the leading cause of invasive candidiasis, an increasingly drug resistant disease that attacks vulnerable populations. Candida albicans is interesting because it is a commensal organism present in human tissues that can become deadly in response to specific environmental cues. Understanding what governs the shift from harmless […]

The p53 protein plays a major role in cancer prevention, and over 50% of cancer diagnoses can be attributed to mutated p53. The main function of p53 is to prevent uncontrolled growth of damaged cells and inhibit tumour formation. A common mutation, Y220C, creates a cavity at the protein’s surface and causes protein unfolding. Our […]

Le projet évalue les deux principales directions du vent et la minéralogie des particules échantillonnées, pour améliorer la compréhension du rôle et l’impact de la taille des poussières minérales retenus par les petites dunes avec vegetation ainsi que les distributions chimiques tout au long du processus de transport. Les investigations vont donc chercher à quantifier […]

Weak lensing, the subtle distortion of galaxy shapes due to matter along the line of sight, is an effect that can be used to measure the mass of galaxies and clusters. The effect is sensitive to both stellar and dark matter, which makes the technique extremely valuable for constraining cosmological parameters. Through observations of weak […]