Ce projet de recherche vise à mieux comprendre l’impact des relations interpersonnelles sur le fonctionnement cognitif. Plus précisément, le projet de recherche porte sur le biais de conformité, considéré par les chercheurs comme responsable de la polarisation des opinions, notamment politiques, et de l’extrémisation des idées dans la société actuelle. Malgré l’influence importante de ce […]

Through the integration of geocomputation approaches, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and Geographic Information Science (GIScience), this research project will contribute to the development of modeling and simulation approaches that will allow Nectar to understand the key interactions within the bee-human system (beekeeping). Leveraging the technological tool developed by Nectar, called BeeTrack, the overall aim of […]

The oncogenic kinase AKT1 is a prime therapeutic target, but its function cannot be easily researched as AKT activation in cells requires stimulation of cells with an unspecific growth factor that alters all cellular signaling. I designed a new method to deliver an already activated, phosphorylated AKT1 protein to cells that do not require the […]

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum L. de Bary is one of the most destructive pathogens in common bean in Canada and all around the world. This fungal pathogen affects over 500 species of plants and its damages vary among and within population from different geographical regions and this can be partially explained due to the genetic diversity in […]

The project “My UKRainian World” aims to create, pilot test and revise educational video resources for learners and speakers of Ukrainian, whose first or primary language is not Ukrainian. It will attempt to bring Ukrainian language video resources on par with other international languages. The current phase of the project consists of: an analysis of […]

Brain fingerprinting is an emerging technique that has significant potential in leveraging individual differences for the improved prediction of behaviour (e.g. memory) and clinical (e.g. neuropsychiatric) outcomes. There is evidence suggesting that certain phenotypes of sleep might be markedly trait-like, however the uniqueness of sleep architecture and microarchitecture underlying the neurophysiological activity during the sleep […]

The project utilizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify brain areas involved in processing speech sounds. We make use of simple English minimal pairs, words that differ in just one sound in the same position (e.g. sip vs. zip), to scan pariticipants’ brains while they perform three different kinds of tasks — uttering words […]

Dans un contexte de perte de biodiversité et de changements climatiques, le projet propose de documenter et caractériser la communauté de papillons des sommets alpins du parc de la Gaspésie. Les milieux alpins subissent l’effet des changements climatiques à un rythme 2 à 3 fois plus rapides qu’ailleurs. L’étude établira un portrait initial précis de […]

In recent years, plant-based food products, such as plant-based beverages, ice-cream, and yogurt, have been much admired by health and environment conscious consumers due to their sustainability and health benefits. This industrial collaborative project aims to optimize grinding processing to treat plant proteins of different sources to achieve sufficient particle size reduction, while avoiding the […]

La résilience familiale apparaît comme un facteur protecteur contre la détresse psychologique lors d’une période difficile, comme celle suivant la naissance d’un nouveau-né prématuré. Jusqu’à présent, peu de travaux ont étudié la résilience des familles en néonatalogie, ce qui résulte en un manque de connaissances disponibles pour guider la pratique clinique à ce sujet. Ainsi, […]

Severe hemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality, accounting for upwards of 100,000 annual deaths in North America and 1.9 million worldwide. Under this condition, in a process called hemostasis, platelets in blood aggregate to form a plug to seal the blood vessel wound. During hemostasis platelets also contract to strengthen this plug, thus generating […]

Alkynamides are very promising inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, important enzymes that can cause cancer when being too active in cells due to different mutations. While being important moieties, until recently there was no convenient method to synthesize them using carbamoyl fluorides — most protocols use either dangerous or expensive and ecologically unfriendly reagents, which always […]