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The Biocontrol of Blackleg Using Carnivorous Bacteria

Canola is one of Canada’s most important agricultural crops. Blackleg is a serious disease of canola potentially causing losses of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. This project will provide a new method of biocontrol of blackleg which will prevent or reduce losses to canola. This biocontrol method uses bacteria which are predators of other bacteria and fungi such as Leptosphaeria maculans, the cause of blackleg. The Mitacs intern for this project will isolate these predatory bacteria from soil and determine whether they can kill or stop the growth of Leptosphaeria maculans. The intern will identify these bacteria by a combination of traditional microbiological techniques and molecular techniques. When successful predatory bacteria are isolated their usefulness in protecting canola in the field will be evaluated. The success of this project will provide canola farmers with a new tool in their arsenal of plant protection options. Predatory bacteria are natural, sustainable, do not involve synthetic chemicals, and are inexpensive.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Holloway

Student:

Partner:

Canola Council of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Use of Technology to Further Education in Asian Countries

The development of an educational learning tool in the form of a mobile and desktop game. Intended to be accessed by people who do not have ready access to a consistent education due to factors varying from poverty to gender discrimination. The learning tool will allow users to learn at their own pace in an interactive and entertaining way. The hope of the tool is that it will increase literacy rates in countries whose rates struggle due to disadvantageous circumstances with regards to access to an education.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahram Yousefi

Student:

Partner:

Cansbridge Fellowship

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education; Technology; Social Innovation

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Développement de batteries pour les véhicules électriques écoresponsables

Afin d’atteindre la carboneutralité et de gérer l’approvisionnement intermittent en énergie renouvelable, les batteries Li-ion – des dispositifs de stockage électrique sous forme d’énergie chimique, sont entrées en jeu. Bien que ces technologies énergétiques soient prometteuses, il faudrait encore améliorer leurs performances de plusieurs ordres de grandeur afin de les utiliser pour les véhicules électriques. Les objectifs de ce projet intitulé « développement de batteries pour les véhicules électriques écoresponsables » sont de (i) développer des méthodes de synthèse de matériaux d’électrode basé sur les covalent organic framework (COFs), non-couteux et transférable à l’échelle industrielle, (ii) valoriser les déchets chimiques (mélamine et ses dérivés) en les utilisant comme matières premières pour préparer les COFs, (iii) participer aux efforts de recherche actuels visant à concevoir une nouvelle génération de batteries Li-ion de haute densité d’énergie et stable avec de long cycle, (iv) créer une équipe de recherche multidisciplinaire de calibre international, (v) accroitre l’expertise du Québec dans le domaine du stockage électrique et (vi) former une main-d’oeuvre qualifiée qui assurera le développement futur de l’industrie des matériaux avancés au Québec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Duong

Student:

Partner:

Centre national en électrochimie et en technologies environnementales

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing captive and wild bumble bee health in Southern Ontario through parasite sampling and analysis

Wildlife Preservation Canada’s (WPC’s) Bumble Bee Recovery Program is mainly focused on the recovery of the Special Concern (may become threatened or endangered) yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola). The intern will be taking on a project that will help WPC assess the health of bumble bee queens in the wild and queens that are being used in WPC’s conservation breeding program. The intern will be sampling and analyzing bumble bee feces for parasites within the field to assess bumble bee communities’ health and within WPC’s Bumble Bee Conservation Lab to assess the health of queens coming into the program. Several bumble bee parasites are known to negatively impact multiple stages of their lifecycle, including their reproduction and ability to survive throughout the winter (i.e. overwintering). The intern will also be creating protocols on sampling and analyzing these fecal samples as this technique is new to WPC. This technique will be integrated into WPC’s internal framework to continuously monitor the health of their conservation breeding colonies, which is crucial to achieve the wider project goal of releasing declining bumble bees to increase populations to levels that are needed for adequate ecosystem functioning (e.g. pollination of crops and wildflowers).

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Faculty Supervisor:

J. Scott MacIvor

Student:

Partner:

Wildlife Preservation Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Small Food Enterprise Outreach (SFEO)

Small Food Enterprise Outreach (SFEO) Project: economic resiliency, ethnocultural food enterprise and urban sustainability collaboration (Phase 1).
The Culinaria Research Centre of the University of Toronto Scarborough is collaborating with the Economic Development & Culture Division of the City of Toronto under the direction of the Centre’s Associate Professor Jayeeta (Jo) Sharma, on a Small Food Enterprise Outreach project (SFEO). As part of phase 1, this SFEO project and MITACS internship will coordinate student researchers’ culturally informed outreach with 10-20 family-owned independent, ethnocultural restaurants across Scarborough municipal wards, examine the impact of the pandemic upon them especially the role of recent government support programs, as part of a wider study of economic resiliency and urban sustainability that prioritizes the role of BIPOC and ethnocultural food stakeholders in advancing resilient communities and local food systems. The MITACS intern will assist to identify a cross-section of ethnocultural BIPOC-run small food enterprises in Scarborough and Toronto wards toward a continuation of the project for a possible phase 2.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jo Sharma

Student:

Partner:

City of Toronto

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Utilities

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Democracy and Access to Justice

Justice is a core element of a healthy democracy. However, during the pandemic Canada has been confronted with critical questions about how individual notions of justice interact with collective democratic principles. Where is the line between democratic participation and harmful discourse? How does partisanship politicize our protected rights and rule of law? What tools does the government have to help resolve these conflicts and how do they relate to our civil liberties? For Canada, the lack of healthy discourse on these questions has fuelled democratic backsliding, the deterioration of norms protecting civic participation, political accountability and transparent elections. With this reversion, Canada has also seen the rise of online toxicity in our digital public square as a barrier for inclusive civic engagement, particularly for women and people of colour. This project will develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between justice and democratic backsliding in Canada by exploring innovative justice solutions to address barriers to meaningful civic participation, including toxic online discourse, and present broad recommendations about how to address democratic challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Orange

Student:

Partner:

The Samara Centre for Democracy

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Effect of Wax Inhibitors on the Flow behavior of the Caledonia Field Paraffinic Oil in Consolidated Porous Media at Reservoir and Production Conditions

The proposed research activi~ies aim the chemical and physical characterization of the wax contained in the Caledonia crude oil for the establishment of customized wax remediation alternatives. It also proposes the evaluation of the effectiveness of the optimum remediation treatments through the establishment of the flow performance of the original oil and treated oil in porous media at actual reservoir and production conditions. The results of this experimental work would allow establishing the actual applicability of the identified remediation techniques and consequently the cost-effective production of the waxy oil in the Caledonia oil field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Romero-Zeron

Student:

Partner:

Corridor Resources Inc (Penobsquis, NB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Unlocking the unrealized value of data collected by internal systems through quality monitoring and data repair. Developing an algorithm for ongoing data repair of an Inventory Management platform as well as CRM system that enhances reporting accuracy

As the company is actively looking for scaling opportunities, the business data quality assessment & monitoring project aims to unlock the unrealized value of data from internal systems such as CRM and Inventory Proprietary Inventory System to discover high-impact insights for internal stakeholders. The data project is looking to align data extracted from such systems to assist in resolving marketing challenges, uncovering the unmet opportunities, and facilitating departments’ decision-making to establish a versatile business model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tiffany Bayley

Student:

Partner:

PlaceHolder Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Applying acoustic and tracking data to assess landscape- and fine-scale habitat use to inform the conservation of at-risk bats

Interns will help collect various data about Ontario’s bat species, and use these to investigate their distributions, use of different land cover, and interactions with the human environment in the Greater Toronto Area. One project will use ultrasonic recorders to monitor bat echolocation activity, and identify temporal and spatial activity patterns in an urban gradient, and activity around roosts. A second project will track fine-scale bat movements using radio transmitters to test variation in use of different land cover in urban areas. The interns will be hosted be the Toronto Zoo’s Native Bat Conservation Program, which will benefit from assistance with fieldwork and the scientific analyses conducted by the interns. These results will be applied by the Zoo in its work supporting Ontario bats with concrete conservation outcomes, applying the institution’s mission of “connecting people, animals, and conservation science, to fight extinction”.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christina Davy

Student:

Partner:

Toronto Zoo

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the role of critical energy technologies in Atlantic Canada’s transition to net-zero emissions

The path to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 in Atlantic Canada is both time- and resource-constrained. Energy system models can be used in this context to compare climate change mitigation options and to strategically plan for meeting climate change goals through cost-effective and timely means. Motivated by these circumstances, Net Zero Atlantic is building an open-source energy system model for Atlantic Canada that will serve as a shared tool for answering questions about the future of our region’s energy system. To provide the best utility to regional decision-makers, the model’s representation of certain technologies of interest (hydrogen, small modular reactors, and onshore wind) must be further refined. The research project proposed here will aim to improve the representation of these energy technologies in the ACES model in order to understand role that these technologies will play in Atlantic Canada’s transition to net-zero emissions. Literature review and interviews will be used to collect data on technoeconomic parameters that could influence how, when, and to what extent hydrogen technologies, small modular reactors, and onshore wind resources are developed in Atlantic Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Adams;Wayne Groszko

Student:

Partner:

Net Zero Atlantic

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Realistic Few-Shot Learning

The main objective of this project is to investigate, develop and evaluate state-of-the-art deep-learning algorithms for joint few-shot classification and out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. Few-shot learning deals with the challenges of limited supervision, and OOD detection attempts to identify inputs that do not belong to the set of classes seen during training. The two research problems are in line with several applications that are of high interest to the industrial partner as they tackle realistic open-set and limited-supervision scenarios. The specific technical objectives of this proposal are: (1) building a realistic few-shot learning benchmark, which reflects realistic open-set settings, with the possible emergence of completely unseen classes, out-of-distribution samples, domain shifts and imbalanced class distributions; (2) investigating and developing non-parametric mode-finding approaches for joint few-shot classification and OOD detection; and (3) investigating and developing domain-adaptation strategies and customized loss functions, which leverage unlabeled data from various domains during training, to mitigate the domain-shift challenges often encountered in industrial settings. The project will involve one intern (a postdoctoral fellow), whose objective is to advance the state-of-the-art in few-shot learning and OOD detection, while accounting for specific challenges and applications that are of interest to the industrial partner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ismail Ben Ayed

Student:

Partner:

Thales Recherche et Technologie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Functionalized nanoparticles-based bioresorbable bone adhesives

The applicants propose to develop a new glue that surgeons will use to glue broken bones back together instead of using metal implants like screws and plates. Such a product has been sought for decades because of potential benefits to the surgeons and patients, including ease of operation when reassembly the puzzle of a complex break and the elimination of procedures to remove metal implants when the break is healed. Proven approaches will be combined and leveraged to provide a new product to satisfy this unmet medical need.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Willett

Student:

Partner:

Covina Biomedical Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

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