The rise of pathogens increasingly resistant to all known antibiotics is becoming an alarming and pressing health care problem. Despite considerable efforts towards finding new antibiotics with novel targets; bacteria will eventually develop resistance against these new classes of drugs. Designing alternative therapeutics with much improved efficacy?without conferring further resistance?is therefore warranted. My research proposal […]

Over the past few years Cannabis has gone through a revolution with respect to its applications to both the medical and recreational markets. For legal reasons, much Cannabis genetics has been hap hazard but now with legalization scientific approaches can be used to develop useful Cannabis strains for the industry. In this proposal, we will […]

This project is addressing a deficit in the long-term valuation space for robust mathematics. Current techniques rely on very basic statistics and manually constructed spreadsheet models. This represents significant operational risk to investment firms. This project will seek to, using machine learning, develop accurate forecasting models for the financial fundamentals of companies in order to […]

In order to improve athlete performance and maintain health, it is crucial to find a balance between training/competition demand, and the stress experienced by athletes. To improve performance, training and adaptation is necessary, but it is also crucial to consider how much training and competition an athlete can handle before it becomes harmful to their […]

Qubits are fundamental units for quantum computation. Photonics is a promising physical medium to realize large-scale quantum computation. One proposal to realize photonic qubits was proposed by Gottesman, Kitaev and Preskill (GKP). Here, the logical qubit is encoded into states of a bosonic mode or a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is expected that such a […]

Polymer translocation is the process by which a long polymer molecule is forced to move through a nanoscopic hole in a wall in order to move from one side of the wall to the other. Many lower-resolution devices can be built using the general idea of forced polymer or macromolecule translocation, e.g. in the fields […]

From infancy to old age, individuals experience massive changes in both behavior and brain function. The worldwide increase in human life expectancy along with population aging highlight the need to investigate and better understand the dynamic relationship between cognitive health and aging. In order to promote productivity, sustained sense of well-being and social engagement, and […]

Top-down control in ecosystems helps maintain ecosystem stability and resilience; however, anthropogenic stressors, such as commercial fishing, have led to the global decline of apex predators. There is a growing recognition that the indirect effects of predators on prey (eg. fear-mediated behavioural responses) could be just as important as direct consumption. For instance, apex predators […]

Trust lies at the very foundations of computer and information security, and is the basis for real-world schemes that require security properties, such as those that underlie consumer banking. Under this research project, we will investigate models for delegation of trust that meet desirable properties, for example, that guarantee that no security compromises occur unless […]

The Canadian Food Guide has recommended an increase in fresh produce in the daily diet. Although the nutritional benefits of fresh produce are well established there are continuing food safety issues, high wastage and water consumption. To enhance safety and shelf-life it is common practice to pass produce through a post-harvest wash using chlorine as […]

The purpose of this project is to support the development of wellness-focused interventions, including weight management, mental health and social well-being for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). To date, the focus of health promotion interventions have primarily focused on typically developing children and adolescents, rather than those with IDD. The partner organization, Special […]

In 2000 a novel protein, referred to as GnIH, was discovered to inhibited the release of reproductive regulating hormones in the brain of quail. Since then, GnIH has identified in all studied vertebrate including fish, amphibians, and mammals. It has been shown to decrease hormone synthesis, be produced and act in reproductive tissues, as well […]