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Developing Cannabis resources for the 21st century

Over the past few years Cannabis has gone through a revolution with respect to its applications to both the medical and recreational markets. For legal reasons, much Cannabis genetics has been hap hazard but now with legalization scientific approaches can be used to develop useful Cannabis strains for the industry. In this proposal, we will develop two transformative programs to revolutionize Cannabis genetics. The first involves the development of a cheap fast method to identify Cannabis strains. The second approach involves increasing the genetic variation of Cannabis strains for future industrial needs. The development of both a high throughput genotyping tool and mutagenized Cannabis germplasms is key to future breeding strategies with Cannabis licensed producers in Canada and abroad.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Coleman;Peter McCourt;Shelley Lumba

Student:

Partner:

Ascendant Laboratories Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Highly Tuned Polymer Surfaces and Modified Polyserotonin Nanoparticle in inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion

The rise of pathogens increasingly resistant to all known antibiotics is becoming an alarming and pressing health care problem. Despite considerable efforts towards finding new antibiotics with novel targets; bacteria will eventually develop resistance against these new classes of drugs. Designing alternative therapeutics with much improved efficacy?without conferring further resistance?is therefore warranted. My research proposal aims to contribute to this global effort by employing polyserotonin nanoparticles (PSeNPs) as an anti-bacterial agent. Through my Mitacs Globalink host, I will decorate the surface of my PSeNPs with polymers exhibiting antifouling properties, tuned for different grafting densities. The resulting polymer-modified PSeNP (PM-PSNP), along with PSeNPs’ intrinsic bacterial-killing property, will then be tested for its anti-adhesion/anti-microbial activities against S. mutans, an oral pathogen responsible for dental caries. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruby Sullan

Student:

Partner:

Queensland University of Technology

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Magnetic Thin Film Fabrication for HAMR Studies

Hard disk technology is still the most widely used technology for data storage. Two promising technologies to improve this industry are Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and all-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization. To check the validity of theories that support HAMR and AOS, more rigorous experimental data is required. Laboratory for Ultrafast Thermomagnetics (LUTher) at York University has the facilities to perform these rigorous tests. However, highly specialized thin films must be manufactured to do so. Proposed project would allow for a PhD student from LUTher to travel to Germany to use the world-renowned facilities at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and expertise of Dr Olav Hellwig in order to manufacture such samples in a timely manner. Chemnitz and HZDR offer the ability to make and characterize a vast amount of material sets that will allow LUTher to individually test for material properties critical for HAMR and AOS. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simone Pisana

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Divided We Fail: Reproductive Rights & LGBTQ Activism in Ireland

Ireland achieved trans gender protections and same-sex marriage in 2015, several years before on-demand, unrestricted access to abortion (2019). This phenomenon is unlike most countries, which achieve reproductive rights first. In Ireland, reproductive and family rights were slow to arrive, contraceptives (without a prescription) was legalised in 1992, divorce in 1995, and from 1983-2018, there was a constitutional ban on all abortion, excluding instances where the life of the mother was threatened.
This project seeks to understand why LGBTQ-related rights arrived first, and the role of activism in this progression. The research will primarily include archival work and interviews with activists, and incorporate feminist theory to understand why Ireland is an outlier. Suspected findings are that same-sex marriage was first-framed as an equality issue, while reproduction was considered a moral concern. The research will show that through utilizing the “equality” framework of LGBTQ activism, reproductive freedom was finally realized.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emer O'Toole

Student:

Partner:

University College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Generation of S9 from fish cell lines as an alternative to live animals

Live animal testing is currently the standard approach for assessing the risk chemicals may pose to wildlife. The costs and ethical concerns associated with live animal testing, however, constitute a significant challenge to regulators and industry in fulfilling their testing mandates to characterize the risks of environmental contaminants. To reduce these challenges, improved exposure assessments that assess chemical risk at target tissues are needed. In vitro assays that characterize biotransformation of chemicals, in combination with in silico (i.e. toxicokinetic modelling) approaches are a proposed alternative to reduce the number of animals used in chemical testing. The current in vitro assays however, use hepatocytes or the S9 fraction of the liver obtained from a live animal. To eliminate the need for live animals to obtain the tissue, generation of S9 from permanent cultures of liver cells is proposed.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Markus Brinkmann;Markus Hecker

Student:

Partner:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Physically-Informed Vinyl Record Model for Real-Time Guitar Effect Processing

In the world of music, the warm, lo-fi response of vintage, analog electronic equipment is generally considered to deliver better sound than modern equipment. This is aptly demonstrated by guitar players who prefer vintage effect pedals, and music enthusiasts that prefer to enjoy music on vinyl records – despite the rising cost, difficult maintenance, and increasing scarcity of vintage equipment. As such, many manufacturers and researchers have begun digitally recreating this vintage equipment – allowing their sounds to be reproduced at lower cost, with increased robustness and consistency. In line with this paradigm, we plan to digitally recreate the response of an old vinyl record player and incorporate it into a pedal. It’ll give guitar players the experience of playing through an old vinyl record player by recreating all the warmth, warble, and noise that vinyl junkies love in an easy to use stompbox.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Scavone

Student:

Partner:

SolidGoldFX

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Obtention et caractérisation de mélanges de polymères dans le cadre de la valorisation du polyéthylène recyclé

Dans un contexte où la protection de l’environnement et l’économie des ressources deviennent de plus en plus importantes, Soléno en partenariat avec l’ETS de Montréal développe une voie de recyclage innovante pour les déchet plastiques non recyclables par les méthodes conventionnelles.
Ce projet est un travail préparatoire à l’industrialisation de cette méthode et permettra de définir les mélanges de polymères à utiliser ainsi que les caractéristiques des plastiques issus de cette voie.
En plus de l’aspect écologique, les retombées économiques pour Soléno sont potentiellement importantes puisque cela va permettre à Soléno de s’approvisionner en partie en plastique souillé, beaucoup moins cher que le plastique propre

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicole Demarquette

Student:

Partner:

Soleno Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Using Sensory Ethnography to Explore Nature-based Proximity Tourism and Family Vacations

Within the tourism field, family vacations are increasingly recognized as an important and growing area of study. Family vacations have the potential to reunite and reconnect individuals outside of every-day life; building social capital, influencing family bonding, and creating important memories. Today’s fast paced, technological world creates many challenges for families in finding the time and resources to experience family vacations. For the green-consumer, there are also ethical challenges in choosing reliable sustainable tourism options that avoid tourism practices that contribute to the global climate crisis. The purpose of this study is to explore how family nature-based proximity tourism in Finnish Lapland can enhance family vacation opportunities. A new and growing area of study, nature-based proximity tourism involves families experiencing nature spaces close to home from a tourists perspective. This study involved researchers accompanying English-speaking Finnish families on a hike during their nature holiday. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bryan Grimwood

Student:

Partner:

University of Lapland

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring the Final Frontier in Earth-Moon system: Low-energy Transfer to Triangular Libration Points

The ambitious goal of my proposal is to explore low-energy transfers to triangular libration points that is the final frontier in Earth-Moon system. As an innovative idea, the role of solar gravity in transfer mechanism will be revealed by chaos theory.
With the development of space technology, the booming desire on triangular libration point urges low-cost and high-robust transfers for spacecraft serving for solar wind surveillance mission. It will benefit the whole world by protecting the Earth and satellite from geomagnetic storm. The unique location of triangular libration points will contribute to future interplanetary exploration.
For the first time, my project presents systematical investigation on the Sun-perturbed transfers to triangular libration points.
I will introduce finite-time Lyapunov exponent to describe performances of motion near triangular libration points. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinjun Shan

Student:

Partner:

University of Barcelona

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mapping the Alt-Right during the Canadian Federal Election

The project is designed to analyze the influence that alt-right political commentators have on the Canadian 2019 Federal Election through YouTube and other mainstream social media platforms. Underneath the discourses and social profiles of mainstream social media platforms lies a web of mostly anonymized, ideologically far-right deep web communities tied together by primary discourses of ironic banter, conspiracy theories, and fake news narratives. Over the last two years, deep web products such as QAnon, Pizzagate, and others have made their way onto mainstream platforms through YouTube commentary, and these discourses perpetuate themselves due to YouTube’s specific platform affordances such as the autoplay algorithm, the related videos algorithm, and the bonds created by consuming news through audiovisual commentary – a phenomenon that projects to grow as an increasing supermajority of younger generations use YouTube as their primary source for political and current event news. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Greg Elmer

Student:

Partner:

University of Amsterdam

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Connecting migrant stories & digital humanists in Canada & Australia

This is a project about migration narratives in Canada and Australia, two countries that have many similarities, from their historical links to the United Kingdom, to the quality of their current economies, to their stature as top migrant destinations. Both countries as we know them today are the product of migration. Stories of migration and resettlement are a core part not only of Canadian and Australian history, but of humanity itself, and understanding them is essential to confronting ourselves, our societies and our future, particularly in a warming world where environmental factors will contribute to the flow of people from place to place. The digital humanities is a rapidly developing discipline that allows scholars to study questions of art, culture and society using big data, statistics and computational methods. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cecily Raynor

Student:

Partner:

Flinders University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Développement d’un banc d’essai universel pour la production en laboratoire de copeaux spécialisés et la détermination des paramètres de coupes

L’industrie du sciage génère des volumes importants de copeaux dont la majeure partie est utilisée par l’industrie des pâtes et papiers, un secteur qui vit une décroissance structurale en raison de l’essor des technologies numériques. C’est dans ce contexte que le SEREX, FP Innovations et l’UQAR collaborent avec le milieu industriel pour identifier de nouvelles avenues et développer les équipements qui permettront aux scieries de transformer les résidus de sciage pour les nouveaux marchés. Le projet de stage s’inscrit dans ce contexte et vise le développement d’un banc d’essai universel capable de produire des copeaux spécialisés et d’étudier les conditions de coupe de ceux-ci. Le banc d’essai pourra être utilisé pour fabriquer de petites quantités de copeaux et soutenir le développement de panneaux isolants ou structuraux. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean Brousseau

Student:

Partner:

SEREX

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

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