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Microalgae for the production of plant specialized metabolites of interest

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a wide variety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often produced in low quantities in plants and extraction methods can be long and expensive. Thus, there is much interest in metabolic engineering for developing microbial platforms to produce specific PNPs. Microalgae are well-known systems for plant biology and genetic engineering and are interesting and suitable hosts for the reconstitution of complex plant pathways. Algae-C wishes to translate metabolic engineering research into industrial processes. This project aims to optimized microalgae platforms for the production of valuable PNPs. These ventures are motivated by consumer demand for products that are environmentally friendly, less expensive, and possess properties similar or superior with those generated by PNPs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabel Desgagné-Penix;Suzanne Budge;Isabel Desgagné-Penix

Student:

Partner:

Algae-C

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Canadian Partnership for Research in Immunotherapy Manufacturing Excellence (CanPRIME)

Cancer remains the leading causes of mortality worldwide. While treatments are available, existing chemotherapies and radiation therapy have limited success due to secondary effects on healthy cells, resulting in adverse side effects in patients. Over the past 5 years, we have witnessed the development of new and promising cancer therapeutics that stimulate and awaken the body’s immune system to attack tumor cells. These new biologically-based therapies, known as immunotherapeutics, have already begun to show great promise in a number of clinical trials. Among immunotherapeutics, Oncolytic Viruses (OV), also known as cancer killing viruses, are at the forefront. In the lab, we discovered a new viral platform named “SKV” that has the ability to safely target and kill a number of different tumor cells types, while successfully activating the immune system against tumor tissues. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolina Ilkow;Kevin S. Holmes;Jean-Simon Diallo

Student:

Partner:

Turnstone Biologics

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Algonquin College; Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology; University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Schools as Potential Sites of Prevention & Intervention for Youth Homelessness

Youth homelessness exists across Canada and schools represent one site of interaction with youth who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness. Decreasing the number of homeless young Canadians means the implementation of innovative, youth-informed practices and policies within institutions, services, and places throughout communities that serve as points of interaction with homeless and at-risk youth (such as schools). This research will create a safe space for youth who have been or who are homeless to share their experiences, and allow the researchers to identify both the successful and unsuccessful interactions that schools have had with homeless youth in order to advise improvement of school responses to youth homelessness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacqueline Kennelly

Student:

Partner:

United Way Ottawa;United Way St. Catharine's & District

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Performance et optimisation de coagulants inorganiques préhydrolysés pour la production d’eau potable

Le projet vise à optimiser une filière de traitement fréquemment utilisée par les villes lors du traitement des eaux potables: la coagulation. Cette étape est essentielle à l’enlèvement de plusieurs contaminants organiques et inorganiques d’intérêt de santé publique. Kemira, le partenaire, bénéficiera de l’expertise du stagiaire et du superviseur en ce qui a trait à l’optimisation des coagulants utilisés en traitement des eaux potables i.e. à cerner les meilleurs produits pour une municipalité ciblée et mieux comprendre certains comportements mécanistiques de leurs produits.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Barbeau

Student:

Partner:

Kemira

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Community Land Trusts: Exploring civil society’s role in reconciliation and the housing crisis

This research project aims to explore how civil society organizations in Metro Vancouver might devise Community Land Trusts that allow their property interests to intersect with their social mission. Metro Vancouver Alliance, a broad-based community organizing alliance of faith, labour, community, and education sectors, previously conducted listening campaigns identifying reconciliation and affordable housing as common priorities. Some MVA faith institutions have expressed interest in redeveloping their property through CLTs to serve this shared social mission. The research initiatives of this project will inform educational materials about CLTs that will be tailored to their specific interests and context. The research project will include a day-long public education conference for organizations interested in exploring CLTs. In addition to exploring CLT models for affordable housing, this project will also partner with urban Indigenous partners to explore possible ways to use CLTs as a means of decolonizing urban land ownership.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Ferguson

Student:

Partner:

Metro Vancouver Alliance

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Engineered Reflection

This research will focus on glass materiality and its use in architecture. By attending Glasstec, fhe international trade fair for glass production, processing and products, I will be able to elaborate a technology survey of available products in the market, production processes as well as experiments and prototypes showcased by the companies Research and Development departments. Additionally, I will visit and document the recently inaugurated Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg, where glass is used in various forms and applications in innovative ways (curved, serigraphed, etched, thermoformed). Through an extensive documentation I will produce the material and documentation in order to propose future uses and applications of glass in architecture, focusing performance and its material possibilities. Both Glasstec participation and the Elbiphilarmonie documentation will become essential elements for my research in the form of concrete chapters in my thesis proposal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Howes

Student:

Partner:

Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Efficient implementation of compact deep neural networks for mobile applications

Computer vision has become part of our daily life with applications in surveillance cameras, medical imaging, self-driving cars, and so on. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown substantial progress in many vision applications such as image recognition and object detection. Utilizing CNNs from 2012 have reduced the error of image recognition dramatically which is now below than human level (i.e. 2.75% vs. 5%). Deep CNNs, however, require a large number of parameters and computations which make them difficult to deploy into smart mobile devices. Several studies have been conducted to find solutions to reduce the complexity of CNNs. Although they showed promising results for some benchmarks, the generalization of the methods into real-world applications has not been fully understood yet. In this work, we aim at finding the best method to compact deep CNNs and to embed them into cell-phone platforms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Langlois

Student:

Partner:

Huawei Technologies Canada Co Ltd (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; New and Digital Media; Other

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Projection hydroclimatique de la teneur en eau des sols et des faibles débits en milieu forestier

Les changements climatiques vont intensifier les périodes de faibles débits et affecter les teneurs en eau dans les sols. Les projections de débits produites à ce jour sont cependant minées par des limitations importantes, notamment une estimation simpliste de l’évapotranspiration et une méconnaissance des propriétés des sols en milieu forestier. Ce projet propose d’intégrer une représentation plus complète et cohérente de l’évapotranspiration et des processus d’écoulement dans les couches superficielles de sol afin d’améliorer la qualité des projections futures des faibles débits et des teneurs en eau pour un ensemble de bassin versants forestiers du Québec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Anctil

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Communication Aid for Non-English Speaking Newcomers

The project will examine the use of pictograms – like the simplified pictures that appear on information signage – and other visual symbols in an audio-visual strategy to facilitate and enhance the use and learning of English as an additional language for Arabic-speaking Syrian refugees. The software for the project is PictoPages, whose development was funded by the George Reed Foundation and was designed by specialists from the University of Regina. PictoPages, developed to assist those with acquired or developmental verbal communication limitations, includes text, recorded speech, and symbols. The software is available for iPad and may be adapted for use on iPhone. The project is focused on those who have limited to no English skills, limited resources, and a range of educational backgrounds. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Malek Mouhob

Student:

Partner:

United Way of Regina

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient Face Recognition for Wearable Camera Devices

Titan Sécurité Inc. has deployed wearable video camera devices for security and surveillance applications, and seeks to accurately detect and recognize objects appearing in captured videos. This project focuses on video-based face recognition (FR), where facial trajectories captured with video cameras are compare against one (or few) reference stills for each individual of interest. The performance of these FR systems is typically poor due to complex and changing video surveillance environments, e.g., variations of facial appearance due to pose, illumination, blur, etc. Given the state-of-the-art accuracy achieved with deep learning architectures on many challenging visual recognition problems, Titan Sécurité Inc. seeks to design Siamese networks based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for still-to-video FR. However, since these networks represent complex solutions for real-time applications, this project seeks to develop specialized techniques to reduce their time and memory complexity. These include advanced techniques for reducing search time, selecting features, and pruning parameter. In particular, this project will focus on developing filter-level pruning techniques that can simultaneously accelerate and compress a CNN based on information extracted from its layers […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Granger

Student:

Partner:

Titan Securite

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Preference analyses and development of an e-health app facilitating communication of test results for hereditary cancer syndromes

An estimated 5-10% of cancers are inherited through family members. To identify patients’ risk for developing hereditary cancers, genetic testing can be used. Communicating hereditary cancer genetic results to patients is challenging for health care practitioners. Practitioners want to ensure that patients understand and communicate their preferences for receiving information. Tools to aid patients in communicating their preferences need to be developed. The intern will work with us as we: 1) ask patients about their views on different characteristics affecting their understanding of genetic test results; 2) develop and test an e-health App alongside Molecular You that patients can use to understand test results; 3) determine patients’ preferences for receiving genetic test information; and 4) elicit feedback on the App from health care practitioners and patients. Molecular You will have the opportunity to expand their existing digital health platform to support shared decision-making in the context of communicating hereditary cancer panel test results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dean A Regier

Student:

Partner:

Molecular You Corporation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Securing Accessible, Quality Early Learning and Care for Families Working Non-Standard Hours in Alberta: A Systematic Scoping Review

Across Canada, many families struggle to find high quality, affordable child care. Most child care options for families are limited to daytime and weekday work hours; this creates even greater challenges for shiftworkers who rely on paid child care. When child care is not available, mothers usually bear the greatest burden as many women, whether parenting alone or with a partner, act as the default primary caregiver. Exploring current literature available regarding shiftwork and access to quality, child care through a scoping review will provide a richer understanding of the nature and extent of what research exists regarding these issues.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Gokiert

Student:

Partner:

College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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