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Isolating and characterizing lytic bacteriophages for applied use against pathogenic Escherichia coli for the poultry industry

The proposed project is to identify and characterize bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) that can reduce presence of E. coflbacteria that are an important cause of disease and production loss to the poultry industry. The reduction of levels of E. coli that can cause disease in poultry by use of bacteriophages would be an important means of controlling this economically important disease and also reduce use of antibiotics to control such infections. Reducing use of antibiotics is also importantas decreased use of antibiotics in livestock should limit increases in emergence antibiotic resistantE. coli and other bacteria associated with foodborne infections in humans. As the industrial partner, SyntBiolab Inc. will pursue the possibility of upscaled production and marketing of such a product, the isolation of such bacteriophages and development of an effective alternative to antibiotics would be a definite benefit to the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Dozois

Student:

Partner:

SyntBioLab Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Novel formulation for the treatment of interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development of novel therapeutic treatments which can be used to alleviate both pain and inflammation associated with IC. The goal of our research is to provide IC patients with symptom and pain relief, as well as to improve outcome. Previous research showed that the immune system is regulated by another system within our body, called the endocannabinoid system. Our approach uses special drugs, called cannabinoids, which are designed to target this system and as a result, provide symptom and pain relief and improve patients’ quality of life. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan Zhou

Student:

Partner:

Panag Pharma Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Achieving quality control during veneer drying by using big data statistics

Veneer drying has traditionally been done using a qualitative approach. Although it is effective in assessing how any modification in parameters impacts veneer quality, it often yields a significant loss in quality due to delays involved in reaching the kiln’s steady state following parameter modification. However, kilns are now being equipped with various sensors that allow the tracking of many parameters related to both the kiln and the veneers. The research objective is to link raw material characteristics with the veneer drying process. The intern will use big data statistics to identify what process parameter have the most impact on product quality and how those significant parameters should be controlled. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Cool

Student:

Partner:

Coastland Wood Industries Ltd (Delta, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Forestry; Other

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un procédé novateur de traitement des lixiviats hautement chargés issus du procédé de compostage

Ce projet de recherche vise à développer un procédé innovant pour répondre à une problématique de traitement des eaux usées à laquelle font face les centres de traitement en Amérique du nord. Les variations climatiques saisonnières limitent les capacités de traitement du procédé conventionnel de lagunage en termes de volume de traitement et de réduction de la charge de contaminants. Cette problématique est aussi liée à une contrainte d’espace puisque d’importants bassins de rétention sont nécessaires pour recueillir les eaux en période froide. Ce projet consiste à développer un procédé combinant un réacteur biologique aux technologies de filtration membranaire pour répondre aux besoins spécifiques des centres de compostage. Ce projet est avantageux pour l’entreprise partenaire puisqu’il permettra de réduire l’empreinte au sol de son traitement des eaux et d’augmenter ses capacités de compostage tout en améliorant ses pratiques environnementales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Drogui

Student:

Partner:

Englobe

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment; Biotechnology

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’une méthode de conception des sols ciments et des fondations stabilisées au ciment pour routes à l’aide de l’essai de plaque française

Afin d’obtenir une infrastructure efficace et durable, il est primordial que ses composants résistent aux intempéries et à l’usure des usagers. L’amélioration des sols d’infrastructures et des fondations routières peut se faire de différentes manières, notamment en y ajoutant un liant hydraulique. On décrit alors le résultat comme étant « stabilisé » ou en d’autres mots, amélioré. Bien qu’il s’agisse d’une technologie à fort potentiel, le Québec l’utilise peu et les lacunes d’informations pour les donneurs d’ouvrages et entrepreneurs n’encouragent pas la diversification des méthodes de construction employées. Par conséquent, un guide de conception responsable et soucieux de la performance en chantier, par l’essai à la plaque, facilite l’innovation et de meilleures solutions techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Gabriel Assaf

Student:

Partner:

Les Carrières de Saint-Dominique ltée

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Desensitization of aero-engine performance and stall margin to tip clearance gap increase

The degradation in performance and operating envelope of aero-engines with age and during critical transient operating conditions such as take-off is a well-known phenomenon. It is mainly caused by the increase in size of the tiny gap between the tip of the compressor rotor blades and the shroud, called tip clearance, from wear and/or shroud thermal expansion, which results in a drop of compressor pressure rise, efficiency and safety margin against aerodynamic instabilities. Two recent doctoral projects at École Polytechnique de Montréal carried out with numerical simulations proposed an explanation for this phenomenon in axial compressors and corrective design strategies. The present research aims to validate these findings on a spectrum of realistic axial compressors so that they can be applied to all axial compressors. This research is then extended to centrifugal compressors. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Huu Duc Vo

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Automotive

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Applying Deep Learning to Optimize 3D Pose Estimation from Monocular Video

REP is an athlete development platform for building better, and healthier athletes. Inside the REP platform are computer algorithms that can “see” how people move, and the accurately estimate how they are moving in three dimensions. The REP platform can then compare models of how you move, to models of how experts move. This comparison gives us rich information that people can use to improve their form. However, generating the expert models is quite hard, and it’s not always easy to understand how to actually compare users and experts. This MITACS project will allow us to work with a talented computer vision researcher to optimize our system through integrating our existing training datasets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Greg Mori

Student:

Partner:

Athlyst Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Chirps for thought

The global meat demand is expected to roughly double by 2050. While the livestock sector monopolizes a lot of land, food and water, edible insects constitute as an interesting alternative to lower environmental stress. Even though almost a quarter of the world population regularly eat insects, their widespread adoption is impeded by the disgust factor and high production costs. In order to facilitate the introduction of edible insects as a locally-produced source of protein for urban populations, this project will see the implementation of a cricket farm promoting community engagement assessing consumer behavior. It will also offer educational programs and provide cricket farm installation services allowing for more people to engage in urban agriculture and diversifying production exchanges between urban farmers. Alvéole would also greatly benefit from this project by diversifying both their insect domestication and educational services, while expanding their range of insect by-products on the market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jordan LeBel;Elizabeth Miller;Satoshi Ikeda

Student:

Partner:

Alvéole

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Appropriate sensor signal analysis and abstraction in physical activity game design

The intern will be involved in the research of state of the art detection of activity from common devices that scales with the sensor capabilities of these devices (i.e. the most basic being accelerometers moving up towards camera detection of physical activity). The intern will strive to create algorithms preventing false positives from occurring and investigating new ways of using sensors and combinations of sensors to digitally capture activity. Output of research is intended to form the basis of key foundational detection techniques for a family of products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Stanley

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment – Year two

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and treatment of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. This research project will develop knowledge and technologies to allow the development of new Trojan Technologies products in these three areas. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Aucoin

Student:

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and treatment of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. This research project will develop knowledge and technologies to allow the development of new Trojan Technologies products in these three areas. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Aucoin

Student:

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

Microbial modifying properties of iodinated water in animal production

The iodination of water has been identified as a means to improve animal performance, particularly in the poultry industry. Iodine has been used as an antimicrobial agent under several applications, however, it is unclear how water iodination results in improved animal performance. We hypothesize that iodinated water can improve performance either by reducing pathogen load, or by altering the intestinal microbial community. BioLargo Water, Inc., specializes in leveraging iodine chemistry for applications in water treatment. To further develop iodinated water as a useful strategy in animal production, it is important to identify the impact it has on the population of microbes in the intestinal tract, including endemic pathogens. Through this collaboration we hope to understand how iodinated water impacts the normal microbial population of poultry, the effect on enteric pathogens including Salmonella and determine whether there are any alterations in innate immunity and mucosal defense of the chicken gastrointestinal tract.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Willing

Student:

Partner:

BioLargo Water, Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Agriculture

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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