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IMMUNONUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND PRODUCTION IN PIGS AND BROILERS – Year two

The reduction of antibiotic use in livestock as an emerging public health response, as well as the continued increase in the global need for animal-based proteins, requires holistic approaches to address these current challenges in animal production. Immunonutrition is a promising field that allows modulate immune system responses through interventions with specific nutrients that have a functional role. This approach nowadays becomes more and more associated with attempts to improve gut health which allow to maintain or even in some cases improve animal performance. By designing a panel of biomarkers for the animal’s overall health, including that of intestine, based on an approach combining data mining, controlled trials and field trials with invasive and non-invasive measures, this project will help understand the role of antibiotic growth promoters to effectively replace them, especially those used in prevention to maintain or improve health. The second objective will be the development of tailored nutritional strategies with ingredients that present functional role including vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. The Centre de Recherche en Sciences Animales de Deschambault (CRSAD) as a partner will develop and gain expertise in the global use of nutritional alternatives to replace antibiotic utilization on the farms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Pierre Létourneau Montminy

Student:

Partner:

Centre de recherche en sciences animales de Deschambault

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Elevate

IMMUNONUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND PRODUCTION IN PIGS AND BROILERS

The reduction of antibiotic use in livestock as an emerging public health response, as well as the continued increase in the global need for animal-based proteins, requires holistic approaches to address these current challenges in animal production. Immunonutrition is a promising field that allows modulate immune system responses through interventions with specific nutrients that have a functional role. This approach nowadays becomes more and more associated with attempts to improve gut health which allow to maintain or even in some cases improve animal performance. By designing a panel of biomarkers for the animal’s overall health, including that of intestine, based on an approach combining data mining, controlled trials and field trials with invasive and non-invasive measures, this project will help understand the role of antibiotic growth promoters to effectively replace them, especially those used in prevention to maintain or improve health. The second objective will be the development of tailored nutritional strategies with ingredients that present functional role including vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. The Centre de Recherche en Sciences Animales de Deschambault (CRSAD) as a partner will develop and gain expertise in the global use of nutritional alternatives to replace antibiotic utilization on the farms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Pierre Létourneau-Montminy

Student:

Partner:

Centre de recherche en sciences animales de Deschambault

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Elevate

Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from E-waste

NeoCtech aims at producing critical rare earth elements (REE), e.g. Neodymium and Dysprosium, from end-of-life materials. REE are called rare because there are few viable primary resources to extract them due to mineralogy of REE bearing ores and physicochemical properties of REE. NeoCtech is carrying out R&D to address the circular economy of REE, and to produce them from secondary resources: REE from recycled waste magnets where REE constitute about 30 wt% of mass. NeoCtech has developed a hybrid and cost-effctive process for the production of rare earth oxides from waste NdFeB magnets. This research proposal is to address one serious challenge for the production of rare earth metals from the oxides, a crucial step with respect to the fact that almost no similar attempt has been done in countries outside China to produce rare earth metals from their oxide forms; in other words, most companies tend to send their metal oxides to China. The success of this research will make NeoCtech a pioneer in the production of rare earth metals for the first time in North America while it can complete the chain of its rare earth metals production from waste streams.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jamal Chaouki

Student:

Partner:

neoCtech Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Elevate

360 Live ID for Livestock

OneCup provides cattle management solutions to the livestock industry. Our AI is called BETSY – Bovine Expert Tracking and Surveillance. Using artificial intelligence, we put a rancher’s skillset into a device the size of a small book. With several types of cameras, BETSY can ID and track cattle activity 24×7. For example, she can track an animal’s growth over a season, or determine if an animal is suffering from a disease or lameness. When BETSY finds something that requires human intervention, she texts or emails a human immediately. Combined with historical tracking, a rancher can access a detailed view of a herd’s entire history, down to the individual animal level.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Hao Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Onecup AI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Agriculture and Food; Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigate parametric machine learningalgorithms to develop anomaly detectionmethods on real-time data

The industry partner, Metafor is developing a new class of IT system management solution. As part of this project, Metafor is building a product feature that monitors computer and network activities and looks for signs of anomalies. This is an important problem as anomalies are usually associated with abnormal user or system behaviors that can potentially result in problems such as system breakdown. As the properties of anomalies and normal behaviours are stochastic and dynamic by nature, efficient and intelligent signal processing and machine learning algorithms are required to detect these anomalies. In this project, the intern will do a comprehensive survey on the state-of-the art of real-time anomaly detection; investigate a set of system indicators or features as well as machine learning algorithms that can potentially be useful in detecting anomalies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Gustafson

Student:

Partner:

Metafor Software

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of biomarkers to assess health impact of exposure to algal toxins in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and effectiveness of mitigation measures at marine open-pen salmon farms

Atlantic salmon are Canada’s top aquaculture export and contribute $1.5 billion annually to British Columbia’s (BC) economy. In BC, blooms of toxic algae are a common problem for salmon farmers, often resulting in large production losses due to lost growth and disease with high mortality. I recently identified for the first time at BC fish farms two algal toxins, domoic acid (DA) and okadaic acid (OA) that are likely associated with mortality at these sites. The health impact of exposure to DA and OA in Atlantic salmon are not well understood; this proposed project will first investigate the presence of toxins at farm sites and examine the health effects of acute and long-term exposure to DA and OA. Next, biomarkers will be developed to allow salmon producers to monitor fish for toxicity and gauge the effectiveness of mitigation measures. This work will benefit the partner organization by improving their ability to monitor salmon for toxin exposure and allow them to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Together, this will enable the partner to reduce the health and economic impact of DA and OA exposure; this knowledge will also be applicable to other algal toxins of concern in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Fast

Student:

Partner:

Grieg Seafood

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Elevate

Bullying Purposely Left Out?: Canada’s amended Labour Code and its potential impact on Indigenous workers

Workplace discrimination is common for Indigenous people (1,2). Unacceptable behaviours may take place at work, such as threats, intimidation, or violence (2). The workplace is a location where behaviour labeled as ‘bullying’ occurs (1,3). When examining Indigenous workers, the impacts of behaviour defined as bullying (and the mere act of defining the behaviour as bullying rather than racism, violence or harassment) may be exacerbated given the unique history of Indigenous people. My proposed research on bullying behaviours experienced at work by the Indigenous population has been largely overlooked by existing research on bullying at work and on the legislative and legal response to it. This study is timely in Canada and will contribute significantly to the literature on workplace bullying, violence, racism and harassment. Monique Gignac and the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) will partner on this project. Mutual benefits will be generated as the IWH currently doesn’t have a strong Indigenous research program but can provide strong psychosocial theoretical approaches to workplace health and safety. The connections with Indigenous workers through this project will add to the understanding of how Indigenous people identify their workplace climate and culture as it relates to ‘bullying’ behaviours, racism, violence and harassment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Helle Moeller;Vicki Kristman

Student:

Partner:

Institute for Work & Health

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Elevate

Development of a multiplexed mass spectrometry assay for the detection and quantification of organ toxicity biomarkers during preclinical drug safety assessments

In recent years, the interest given to disease biomarkers has boomed. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are exploring ways to use biomarkers to speed up the drug development process, as well as to rapidly assess a diseases state, staging, progression and response to therapy. Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) Mass Spectrometry (MS) has been shown to be well suited for the selective and sensitive quantification of proteins in plasma and has recently emerged as the technology of choice for disease biomarker study. The focus of this research project is to develop a highly multiplexed MRM assay to quantitatively measure changes in organ-specific toxicity biomarkers and test their predictive value following drug-induced organ injury in rats. More specifically, this assay will be used to detect and quantify protein biomarkers associated with various organ toxicities such as hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, cardiotoxicity as well as muscle, vascular and neurotoxicity in the rat urine and plasma.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Thibault

Student:

Partner:

Caprion Proteomics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

In Vitro Fundamental Dispersion Studies of Allergens and COVID-19 Sized Particles

Red Maple Trials (Ottawa, ON) created a facility for the research of allergy, in which patients can be exposed (challenged) to airborne allergens and symptoms can be monitored in a controlled manner. The primary clientele of Red Maple Trials are pharmaceutical companies testing allergy medications. Two testing rooms (small for 1-3 subjects, and large for up to 10 subjects) are dedicated for cat allergen exposures and a third (the largest room, which is able to accommodate up to 75 subjects) is reserved for dust-mite or pollen exposures.
The main objectives of this two-year project are: 1) improve the allergen dispersion system in the larger cat allergen testing room to allow homogeneous spatial distribution, temporal stability (over three hours), and repeatability. 2) Expand and improve aerosolization in the largest testing room to include dust-mite allergen dispersion. 3) Explore the possibility of using the unique facilities to study indoor-spread of COVID-19 using aerodynamically similar surrogate particles. 4) In addition to experimental measurements (particle size, velocity, concentration, and deposition), numerical simulations using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques will be developed and validated. The results will elucidate how characteristics of irregular particles (e.g. shape, adhesion, and roughness) effect their aerosolization and distribution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edgar Matida;Joana Rocha

Student:

Partner:

Red Maple Trials

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Elevate

Enhancing the development and sustainability of Greenland halibut fisheries in a rapidly changing Arctic – Year two

Fisheries are a fundamental contributor to socio-economic growth in northern Canadian communities and are a management priority considering limited alternative economic opportunities available in the region. The proposed research aligns with core research needs of industry/resource managers to meet three objectives: 1. examine movement dynamics, habitat-use, and bycatch hotspots to aid development of community-based Greenland halibut fisheries in Pond Inlet, 2: measure emigration and mortality rates of Greenland halibut from Cumberland Sound to evaluate connectivity with offshore commercial fisheries to support ongoing stock assessment, 3) provide a robust evaluation of the current region proposed as the principle spawning ground through examining movement dynamics and connectivity of Greenland halibut in the northern Davis strait. We will use acoustic telemetry and a combination of existing (>1400 tagged fish, >140 acoustic receiver stations) and newly collected data to meet these objectives. This work will aid the development of community-based fisheries by providing priority information for sustainable growth and accurate stock assessment and to promote equitable quotas. Equally, through characterizing inshore-offshore connectivity and evaluating and quantifying the use and periodicity of spawning grounds, this work will provide improved knowledge to manage the overall inshore-offshore Greenland halibut stock.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nigel Hussey

Student:

Partner:

Nunavut Fisheries Association

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Elevate

Enhancing the development and sustainability of Greenland halibut fisheries in a rapidly changing Arctic.

Fisheries are a fundamental contributor to socio-economic growth in northern Canadian communities and are a management priority considering limited alternative economic opportunities available in the region. The proposed research aligns with core research needs of industry/resource managers to meet three objectives: 1. examine movement dynamics, habitat-use, and bycatch hotspots to aid development of community-based Greenland halibut fisheries in Pond Inlet, 2: measure emigration and mortality rates of Greenland halibut from Cumberland Sound to evaluate connectivity with offshore commercial fisheries to support ongoing stock assessment, 3) provide a robust evaluation of the current region proposed as the principle spawning ground through examining movement dynamics and connectivity of Greenland halibut in the northern Davis strait. We will use acoustic telemetry and a combination of existing (>1400 tagged fish, >140 acoustic receiver stations) and newly collected data to meet these objectives. This work will aid the development of community-based fisheries by providing priority information for sustainable growth and accurate stock assessment and to promote equitable quotas. Equally, through characterizing inshore-offshore connectivity and evaluating and quantifying the use and periodicity of spawning grounds, this work will provide improved knowledge to manage the overall inshore-offshore Greenland halibut stock.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nigel Hussey

Student:

Partner:

Nunavut Fisheries Association

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Elevate

Enabling community well-being monitoring inlight of probable mine development: NaskapiNation of Kawawachikamach (Quebec

The Naskapi Nation is a small, isolated Aboriginal community located in northern Quebec. Accessible only by air and rail, the community has been affected by significant mineral development to date. Do to the rich mineral area surrounding the community extractive companies have implemented plans for further development. This has raised local concerns
regarding the range of environmental and socio-economic impacts that may be caused by development. Given the scale of proposed mining activity in this region, there is a need to develop a process to track community well-being over time, using community personnel and indicators that are meaningful to community members. Beyond offering an accurate picture of community change in light of mineral development, such time series evidence also provides a basis for community leadership to revisit past decisions and make corrective action if need be. The first step in such a process is to establish a baseline of well-being

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ben Bradshaw

Student:

Partner:

Naskapi Heavy Machinery LP / Naskapi Nation ofKawawachikamach

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

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