Breeding tubercles (BTs) are epidermal structures found on the dorsal surface of pectoral fin rays of males bony fish, such as zebrafish. Females do not have BTs on their fins. BTs appear during the sexual maturation of male zebrafish. Males use their fins and BTs for grasping the female to stimulate egg laying. We want […]

Absence seizures are the most common form of epilepsy in children. These patients often experience transient episodes of impaired consciousness, which have an enormous impact on their quality of life. We are proposing to identify the neural substrates for these seizures. These experiments would provide the basis of future experimental studies examining the biological basis […]

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by exaggerated weight loss, fear of gaining weight, self-depreciation. It mostly affects young women and is most likely have the highest death rate of any other mental illnesses and of many diseases in general. Anorexia is notoriously treatment refractory and the main explanation is the poor understanding of […]

Arsenic (As) is a contaminant found in ecosystems and drinking water throughout the world; it is a potent human carcinogen. Arsenic levels and speciation are controlled by a series of abiotic and microbial processes. Arsenic toxicity depends on its speciation and proper risk management is linked to predicting As speciation in various environmental matrices. Laboratory […]

This project explores the relation between internationalism and leftist literature in early twentieth century China and East Asia. A study of internationalism amongst leftist movements offers important insights into technologies and strategies for building coalitions across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. I propose that examining workers organizations and their literary and cultural links to internationalism […]

Ce projet de recherche vise à mieux comprendre comment la luminescence de certaines molécules est influencée par leur structure et environnement. La présence d’interactions intermoléculaires peut modifier considérablement les spectres de luminescence. Dans les complexes étudiés, des interactions se produisent entre le métal du complexe et un hydrogène d’un complexe voisin. En modifiant le métal […]

Colonie française depuis le début du XVIe siècle, la Nouvelle-France est cédée à la Grande-Bretagne à l’issu de la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763). Chez les Britanniques, une volonté de conquête du Canada est clairement exprimée dans l’opinion publique. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous souhaitons voir au-delà des « quelques arpents de neige […]

Beyond the well-known double-stranded helical duplex, DNA can adopt many unusual architectures, including guanine quadruplexes (G4), which in recent years have been implicated in cellular processes that lead to the development of cancer. It has been shown that these processes can be switched off by maintaining the folded quadruplex architecture using chemical compounds known as […]

The proposed research area of my master’s project is on the structure and function relationships of food-related proteins, at a fundamental and molecular level. My focus is on the plant specific insert (PSI), a saposin-like-protein in Solanum tuberosum, which has the potential to impact on both food safety and agricultural practices. Plants rely on their […]

La biodiversité des oiseaux dans deux différents milieux de la région de Oaxaca au Mexique sera examinée par un suivi des espèces présentent et de leur distribution dans les habitats. Les chants seront enregistrés, leur emplacement noté et les espèces auditivement identifiées. L’étude nous informera 1) sur l’état des habitats à l’intérieur d’un milieu protégé […]

Waste management objective is the protection of the environment and human health while encouraging resource recovery. Recycling generates income and provide many environmental benefits. Florianopolis is a growing city in one of the faster development economies in the global south (BRICS). At the same time, environmental legislation promotes a sustainable development of the city. The […]

Enormous research and commercial activities on utilization of bio-based materials to replace petroleum-based chemicals are currently taking place around world, aiming at the reduction of pollution and global warming. Among them, L-Cysteine which contains a thiol (-SH), amino (-NH2) group and carboxylic acid (-COOH) group. It is considered to be a unique building block for […]