Nous étudions les interactions entre une protéine bactéricide, la phospholipase A2-IIA sécrétée (sPLA2-IIA), et la flore microbienne intestinale (microbiote) afin d’en évaluer l’effet sur le système immunitaire. Nous avons observé que des souris transgéniques exprimant constitutivement la sPLA2-IIA humaine (sPLA2-IIATGN) présentent un important désordre immunitaire. En tentant de vérifier l’hypothèse que ce désordre est causé […]

Le caribou migrateur de l’Est du Canada est en déclin. En 2017 le comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada a recommandé le statut d’espèce en danger pour ces populations. Comprendre les changements démographiques de ces troupeaux et les effets de l’environnement qui influent est nécessaire pour améliorer la gestion et la […]

The number of patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) reached 392 million worldwide in 2015 and its prevalence is expected to increase by more than 50% during the next two decades. Currently, the best way to treat diabetes is to diagnose and prevent at the early stages. There is an urgent need for […]

This research will look to explore the ingest, management, preservation, use, and re-use of archives within primary and secondary independent schools with more academic rigour than has been attempted in the past. Independent schools have unique challenges that differ from those faced by public schools. The purpose of this study is to inductively create a […]

The aim of this project is to develop a training program in Narrative Care for health/social care workers who will in turn use their training to organize and facilitate Narrative Care programs for others in their workplace or organization in a cascading manner. The proposed program represents an extension of the hypothesis that the stronger […]

Recreational angling represents an economically and culturally important activity worldwide. However, stresses associated with catching a fish, particularly exhaustive exercise, can result in an impaired physiological condition and delayed mortality following the fish’s release which are harmful to the fish’s health and well-being. Additionally, because fish are cold-blooded, the degree to which angling affects fish […]

Our research project is to verify the effect of two psychological concepts, emotional intelligence (IE) and the Big Five, on a mentoring relationship developed in an entrepreneurial context. We collected data from 188 mentoring dyads as part of the Réseau M of the “Fondation de l’entrepreneurship du Québec”. A positive association is expected between the […]

Réalisé en partenariat avec l’École de Communication de l’Université Catholique de Louvain, notre projet interroge l’utilisation des médias sociaux par les politiciens européens et canadiens au regard des discours d’accompagnement qui tendent à célébrer leur potentiel démocratique. Par le biais de l’analyse de publications Facebook et Twitter émises par les élus dans leur action politique […]

My interest in the displacement of animals that play key roles in Indigenous food systems that resulting from habitat loss associated with climate change has led me to consider the potential for domestication and animal husbandry as a potential adaptive management strategy. The unique instance of reindeer herding by the Sámi people provides an important […]

On average, individuals from more disadvantaged social backgrounds will develop diseases earlier and die earlier compared with their more advantaged peers. Indeed, so ubiquitous is the association between health and wealth that it has been referred to as a ‘fundamental’ cause of disease. Understanding how social group based differences in socio-economic position (SEP) get biologically […]

Emerging as a targeted, safe and efficient pharmacotherapy is the approach of theranostics, which focuses on patient-centered care. It is a combination of diagnosis and therapeutics and provides a cost-effective specific successful treatment protocol. The aim of this research would be to take all the knowledge that has been gathered during the previous 2 years […]

The main objective of my research is to use spatial dynamic models (a combination of Cellular Automata model and Agent-Based model, short for CA-model and AB-model) to simulate future scenarios of tropical forest in the Guanacaste region, Costa Rica. It is a multi-layer model, including three layers. The top one is CA-model layer, and it […]