L’étudiant étudiera l’influence de la salinité sur l’efficacité de traitement de l’azote ammoniacal présents dans les effluents miniers par les microbulles d’ozone. Cette étude permet d’avancer l’identification des facteurs qui peuvent influencer ce type de traitement qui a montré son efficacité pour le traitement des eaux minières dans des conditions climatiques froides.

Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) constitute a diverse class of plant secondary metabolites (SM) that exhibit a myriad of pharmacological activities. While there have been tremendous efforts to chemically synthesize high-value BIAs, this approach is not economical due to their complex chemistry. Also, production of BIAs using traditional means also has several drawbacks. An alternative is the […]

Telomeres are nucleo-protein structures at the ends of chromosomes that are essential for preserving genomic integrity. Although many protein components of telomeres are known, their nature was studied in a relatively narrow range of organisms. The proposed research is aimed at the identification of novel players involved in telomere maintenance in a nonconventional yeast species […]

Most mammals require care from older individuals during early life. Mothers tend to be the primary caregivers during this time, but in some mammals, notably social carnivores, rodents, and primates, care can be provided by conspecifics. In most primate species, allomothers tend to be female, making infant care by males a rare behaviour. Recently, we […]

The synapse forms the core unit of information transfer in the brain, and most brain disorders, both developmental and degenerative, are caused by synaptic dysfunction. Understanding synaptic organization is therefore central to both basic research and health research in neuroscience. Our still-evolving understanding of the synapse includes relatively recent recognition that many synapses use multiple […]

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 […]