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Regulation of T-type calcium channel activity by targeting channel trafficking – a novel approach for pain management

Current therapies to manage pain either result in side effects or are insufficient and the associated medical costs and loss of work days come pose a tremendous socioeconomic burden. We recently showed that T-type channel activity is aberrantly regulated in inflammatory and neuropathic pain by the deubiquitinase USP5, and we have begun to explore this mechanism as a new therapeutic avenue based on interfering TAT peptides. We now plan to test our TATpeptides in diabetic neuropathy and inflammatory bowel pain. We also plan to generate additional TAT peptides to enhance efficacy in vivo and validate them at the cellular and whole animal level. Compared with ion channel blockers which often lack specificity, our approach specifically targets a process that is involved in aberrant upregulation of channel activity, while sparing normal channel function, thus reducing the risk of adverse side effects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerald Werner Zamponi

Student:

Partner:

Innovate Calgary

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Marketing/Sales Strategy (On-Premise – British Columbia-Focus)

River Oak Imports (ROI) – Sales/Marketing Strategy (on-premise)
River Oak Imports is focused on creating and distributing exciting liquor brands to key markets across the globe. Based in beautiful Alberta, Canada, we are a family-owned company that takes immense pride in the brands in our portfolio.
Our brands aren’t just bottles, they are experiences. We combine beautiful branding and delicious liquid to create unforgettable tasting experiences.
Our current activities are focused on whisky, gin, and white wine spritz.
The intern will be a key team member of a start-up company, focusing on launching Premium Liquor Brands, including Distribution and Sales. The Sales/Marketing Strategy will be focusing on creating a larger presence of our local brands in Alberta. ROI is Edmonton, Alberta based looking to execute a 3-year plan for Sales/Marketing Strategy to expand our brand’s border to border for Alberta. The intern will have a main focus on the current Brand Mountain Pass Canadian Whisky. Mountain Pass has expanded to British Columbia and is expanding to the United States, and the applicant will be a key member in focusing and growing partnerships within Alberta at locations. ROI has several other brands launching over the next year years, and the plan being executed will

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Young;Kennedy Clayton

Student:

Partner:

River Oak Imports Ltd.;The Fort Distillery

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

The Learning Bar 2022

The Learning Bar works with communities around the world to support childrens’ learning and well-being. Our assessments, programs and professional learning ensure educators know exactly what they need to do to support a child from pre-K through to graduation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mercy Oyet;Paul Cook

Student:

Partner:

The Learning Bar

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Calibrage de modèles de simulation dynamique de procédés minéralurgiques

Les batteries lithium-ion sont du matériel de grande valeur à recycler. Elles ont des métaux critiques très attractifs actuellement. Le graphite en particulier occupe une place centrale dans cette démarche visant à appuyer la transition énergétique. La fabrication des batteries pour stocker les énergies propres repose en effet sur ce matériau qui entre dans la composition des anodes. C’est dans ce contexte que Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) développe le projet minier Matawinie qui entrera en production en 2024.
La simulation phénoménologique consiste à utiliser des modèles mathématiques intégrés dans un environnement permettant leur exécution selon une séquence appropriée pour reproduire le comportement et les performances de l’usine. La réconciliation des données expérimentales brutes permettra de rendre celle-ci cohérentes avec les équations de conservation de la matière.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jocelyn Bouchard

Student:

Partner:

Universidade de São Paulo

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

AI for Mental Health: Developing tools to help clinicians streamline treatment for mental health difficulties

AIMH (AI for Mental Health) is a start-up that uses AI methods to support mental health. We have developed the prototype of a platform that can be used as a decision support tool, in clinical practice of childhood psychiatric disorders. Our initial focus is ADHD (Attention-deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder). Core of this technology is the combination of machine learning with knowledge of underlying biological processes. The developed methodology facilitates a closer collaboration between families and mental health professionals to provide improved personalized care for the individual. The internship will provide support for the development of tools to help clinicians treat mental health difficulties. More precisely, the objective of the internship is to refine both the interface and the models that power the platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aurélie Labbe

Student:

Partner:

AIMH Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Étude de dépôt de couches minces sur bois assisté par Plasma.

Le projet porte sur le développement d’un procédé de dépôt de couches minces sur le bois et ces dérivés (contre-plaqué, etc) par l’utilisation d’un réacteur PE-CVD (plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition).
Le dépôt recherché aura pour rôle d’ignifugier et de ralentir la combustion du bois.
L’étude s’orientera sur le comportement du réacteur de dépôt, sur ces caractéristiques physiques et techniques.
Elle portera aussi sur la manière dont le précurseur chimique employé dans le dépôt se comporte au sein du réacteur, quelle sera sa cinétique chimique.
Enfin il sera étudié la façon dont le substrat bois modifie la dynamique du réacteur et inversement comment il est impacté par le processus (notamment l’impact thermique, principale limitant).
Ce travail s’effectuera par des recherches bibliographiques, théoriques et par l’analyse d’échantillons à travers une étude paramétrique.
A terme il est attendu d’obtenir des dépôts, dans un premier temps sur silicium, puis sur bois, et d’établir des relations entre les propriétés de ces revêtements et les paramètres du réacteur.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gaétan Laroche

Student:

Partner:

Université de Toulouse

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A causal discovery approach based on synthetic data and its application in contaminant transport modelling and card fraud detection

This project will apply causal discovery methods to two model-generated datasets. One is a dataset describing the transport of emerging contaminant metformin in the groundwater; the other is a card fraud transaction dataset. The method will examine the dataset’s underlying structure (data skeleton). Multiple new methods will be evaluated and tested on the datasets. The synthetic datasets are designed to reflect the real-world scenario to the maximum extent. The study results can help gain new knowledge on the contaminant transport process and the credit card fraud problem, test the performance of the causal recovery methods in different domains and guide the design of the causal discovery framework in multiple scenarios.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bing Chen

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Finance and Insurance

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding diverse COVID-19 outcomes at the cellular and molecular level

Approximately 40% of COVID-19 survivors experience the Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (LONG-COVID-19) or Long COVID. It is currently not possible to predict who will become long-haulers and continue to experience symptoms that last for weeks or even months. The goal of this project is to better understand the molecular underpinnings of diverse patient outcomes in COVID-19 and develop molecular diagnostics that can identify specific patient groups for targeted management, improving patient care and allocation of scarce resources to those who need them most. Our research team has unique access to IMPACC study, a unique resource that includes comprehensive molecular profiling at many time points during infection, as well as in long-term follow-up, on a large group of COVID-19 patients. Crucially, the size of this cohort allows for capture of disease variability driven by emerging variants, as well as the effect of vaccines in diminishing disease. The molecular signatures we develop will be validated using ongoing Canadian research cohorts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott J. Tebbutt

Student:

Partner:

PROOF Centre of Excellence

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Voice Activity Detection in Real-Time Speech Processing using Deep Learning

The COVID-19 has changed dramatically the educational environments in all countries over the world. Due to the pandemic, online education has played an important role over the past two years while in-person classroom teaching had to be prevented. Under the present pandemic circumstance, although a quite number of courses at many universities had being held remotely, transferring all the educational activities online would bring many issues to both trainers and trainees. One of the key issues is about the lack of an integrated advanced online learning platform with which instructors can prepare course material conveniently and efficiently. Also, the present form of online teaching is mainly based on the slides prepared before hand, which makes learners tired and bored. On the other hand, some educators offer e-courses by providing pre-recorded videos. However, these videos either present slides or make use of a traditional classroom board setup, which is not efficient either, since the instructors lack of intuitive and inspiring means of delivering the material. In this project, we aim to develop a novel intelligent speech processing system based on artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate remote teaching.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wei-Ping Zhu

Student:

Partner:

Castofly Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding how to Decolonize as an Indigenous-led Organization in a Western Funded World

In partnership with the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) researchers from Dalhousie are interested in investigating what decolonization means to an Indigenous led organization that resides in a Western funded world. MNFC is interested in learning how to navigate what does it mean to be decolonized and how to engage with partners going forward. The project involves a literature review and interviews with people inside and outside of MNFC with the end goal of creating a decolonization framework that MNFC can implement. MNFC will benefit from this project because they will be able to apply this framework in their organization to set principles and boundaries to ensure they have decision making authority when working with Western organizations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi Weigand

Student:

Partner:

Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Society

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Gold mineralization at the Engineer Mine, northern British Columbia: Its causes and consequences for local and regional gold exploration

At the Engineer Property in northern British Columbia, gold-bearing epithermal (shallow heat) quartz-carbonate veins feature electrum (gold-silver alloy) and roscoelite (a vanadium mica), an association which has not been well studied in similar gold deposits. The igneous heat source for the veins has not been proven, but is believed to be the Eocene Sloko Group volcanism and the nearest igneous body is thought to be related to this volcanism. However, minimal age dating has been done in the area. Gold is also present in a regional shear zone called Shear Zone “A”, but its relationship to the epithermal veins is uncertain. The main objective of this study is to develop a deposit model for the high-grade gold mineralization. This deposit model should address the following questions: (1) At what temperature and pressure did the veins form? (2) What is the mineralogy and geochemistry of the veins? What does this tell us about the source of the gold? (3) What are the structural and spatial relationships between the geologic features of the area? (4) What is the chronology of the formation or emplacement of the geologic features?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lee Groat

Student:

Partner:

BCGold Corp

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Business Strategy Internship with Healthy Cow and ProPreg

Healthy Cow is an agriculture biotechnology company with a primary focus on the dairy industry, although its research is applicable to all livestock. All of Healthy Cow’s research is based on healthy metabolome and microbiome.Healthy Cow has worked over the last five years to advance research out of the University of Alberta. The first technology and product is called ProPreg. This intra-vaginally designed technology is formulated to maintain a healthy microbiome. With the launch of this innovative product soon approaching, this project will be essential in developing marketing, sales and the necessary high level strategic planning needed for the launch of ProPreg. The role of the intern is important in providing business development activities and the development of sales and marketing materials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roman Krawetz

Student:

Partner:

Healthy Cow

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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