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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering - chemical / biological

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:

Kateryna Krylova

Partner:

SyntBioLab Inc

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Refinement of a Bioelectric Sensor to achieve real-time quantification of BOD

The necessity of cost-efficient and reliable wastewater treatment processes has increased in order to meet more stringent levels of environmental regulations, increased system reliability requirements and tightening operational budgets. To aid in meeting these operational goals, a strong market for low-cost, high-fidelity sensor technology that can relay real-time information to system operators on all aspects of wastewater treatment system performance has developed. This project looks to advance an existing prototype biosensor to the point of marketable as an end-of-pipe regulatory Biochemical Oxygen Demand monitoring device. The success of this project will produce a technology with the capability of reducing the duration/incidence of environmental contamination events, and future development of the biosensor and platform would allow for improved management of wastewater infrastructure and treatment processes. This sensor technology will well support the aforementioned goals and reduce the impact on ecosystem and human health from incompletely treated wastewater.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rob Jamieson

Student:

Colin Ragush

Partner:

Island Water Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the root causes of record-breaking production

Recently at one of its mines, the partner has experienced a period of unprecedented production. Through its automated production data gathering systems, huge volumes of data are generated on a moment by moment basis at the mine. The goal of this project is to see whether data from this period hold an understanding of the root factors that led to the high production levels and indicate best practices to be implemented on an ongoing basis. This is a big data analytics project. The project will involve applying data and advanced business analytics approaches to analyze the mine’s production data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harish Krishnan

Student:

William Jenden

Partner:

Silver Standard Resources Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Tracking the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on migratory birds

Declines in migratory bird populations have been linked to a range of complex environmental factors, including the dramatic increase in application of neurotoxic neonicotinoid insecticides in recent decades. Neonicotinoids are used as seed treatments in a wide variety of Canadian crops, and consumption of treated seeds could result in poor navigation and migration delays in migratory birds. However, the influence of insecticides on cognition and patterns of movement is poorly understood. To assess whether neonicotinoids affect the ability of birds to successfully migrate, we will use Bird Studies Canada’s (BSC) automated tracking network (Motus) to track seed-eating migratory birds experimentally exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of neonicotinoids during spring migration. This work will contribute to BSC’s mandate to conserve Canadian birds through sound science by tracking priority species and conducting research on population threats. This project will also advance the application of Motus to derive location and orientation of migratory movements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christy Morrissey

Student:

Margaret Eng

Partner:

Bird Studies Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Plastic to Oil Pyrolysis Process Technology with Advanced Plasma Technology

The field of plastic waste management is essential for sustainable society that utilizes plastic waste for energy production. Land filing and incineration of plastic waste has large environmental impacts due to GHG emissions. Thus, pyrolysis is considered a low environmental impact process with high value end products. RF thermal plasma technology will help reduce operating cost, cleaner thermal source, shorten reaction time and provide high quality hydrocarbon gasoline and diesel. The research project involves developing a highly efficient RF thermal plasma system that can work in pyrolysis reactors. The partner organisation will start to utilize thermal plasma systems in their chemical reactors and drive the waste management industry forward by reducing operating cost of plastic to oil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Mohamed Aboughaly

Partner:

Pro-Flange Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Raman micro-spectroscopy for biopsy for prostate cancer prognosis -Year two

Prostate biopsies can be difficult to interpret using standard pathology techniques. Because cancer can be fatal, the development of technologies providing complementary information could improve current pathology practice resulting in improved patient outcome. Raman micro-spectroscopy is a molecular imaging technique using backscattered light following tissue laser excitation to indicate whether or not prostate samples contain cancer cells. However, this technique is very sensitive to the molecules in chemicals used to process tissue (e.g. paraffin), which greatly limits its efficacy. We will develop a standardized protocol for the preparation of diagnostic tissues insuring the rich molecular content of Raman imaging can be fully exploited for clinical use. Raman micro-spectroscopy is a label-free technique not requiring the use of dyes or molecular reporters, thereby greatly facilitating its use. The integration of this technique would improve our capacity to establish the prognosis of prostate cancer patients and advance research supported by ICM.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Trudel

Student:

Andrée-Anne Grosset

Partner:

Institut du cancer de Montréal

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

Multi-biomarker test for the management of acute cardiac transplant rejection

The high incidence of acute organ rejection following heart transplantation poses major problems for patients, clinicians, and the healthcare system. A major clinical challenge in this regard arises from the difficulty of accurately
and efficiently diagnosing when organ rejection occurs. In Canada, the current approach to diagnosing acute rejection requires taking small pieces of the endomyocardium (EMB), which is a highly invasive and costly procedure. An alternative approach, currently not available in Canada, is to use a blood-based biomarker test called AlloMap; however, this test is ineffective during the period immediately after a heart transplant, when most rejection events
occur. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert McMaster

Student:

Ji-Young Kim

Partner:

Discipline:

Genetics

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Elevate

Implementing Factor Models in Investment Management

The internship will consist of studying, building, implementing and testing so called factors that are used to characterize the equities, commodities and currencies that the company invests in. These factors can be thought of as characteristics relating a group of securities that is important in explaining their returns and risk. My task will be first to understand the risk factors that are of particular importance to the company’s investment strategy. Following this, I will use literature on the subject to construct proxies, or representations, of these risk factors that can be explicitly defined using quantitative information of different industries. Once this is done I will also build models that involve combinations of many factors as well as test different such models against each other for efficiency. Finally, I will also attempt to design new factors based on knowledge and expertise acquired through literature as well as implementing existing models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manuel Morales

Student:

Maxime Roussakov

Partner:

Ipsol Capital

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Towards a rational design of slender masonry walls

Design of loadbearing, out-of-plane (OOP), tall masonry walls tends to have stringent limits related to their buckling stability and the scarcity of research on their structural reliability. This currently puts the masonry industry at a disadvantage as a construction alternative compared to other structural options. The dearth of masonry research and innovation in slender wall design since the 1980’s, when working stress and prescriptive-based design was common, has had a negative impact on the use of conventional slender masonry walls as limit states and objective-based design was adopted. This project consists of the development of analytical models for walls (validated with experimental data) which will be used to conduct reliability studies to investigate the safety and accuracy of current design methods. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Cruz Noguez

Student:

Odín Guzmán Sánchez

Partner:

Alberta Masonry Council

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Micro-computed tomography of synthetic turf infill submitted to repeated impacts

The shock absorption properties of synthetic turf playing surfaces are mainly controlled by a granular infill composed of sand and rubber crumbs. Throughout their useful life, playing surfaces show decreasing shock absorption properties. Particle breakage, segregation, compaction and contamination with fine particles have been invoked to explain the aging of playing surfaces. In this project, CT scans of sand-rubber mixtures will be obtained after different numbers of impacts with an instrumented hammer that measures the shock absorption properties. CT scans will allow the parameters describing sand-rubber mixtures (porosity, grain size distribution, segregation) to be measured and related to shock absorption properties. CT scans will also be used to image the microstructure of real playing surfaces at the end of their useful life. After this project, the partner organization will gain insight on the causes of time-dependent infill stiffening and will be able to develop new sand-rubber recipes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Sébastien Dubé

Student:

Maxime St-Jean

Partner:

FieldTurf Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Ecosystem Services and Food Security for the Lil’wat Nation

The Lil’wat Nation is working to foster community food security by restoring and activating Indigenous knowledge around traditional food systems. Our project examines ‘Ecosystem Services’ approaches as one way to support local food security while also protecting culturally-important environmental services. Led by a Lil’wat Food Committee, this project will engage community members in community planning and visioning exercises that evaluate what future paths for environmental stewardship are the highest priority. We will determine best practices for how farmers, ranchers, food harvesters and collectors can be compensated for protecting ecological values and services, and work to create spatial data to advise stewardship programming for lands within Lil’wat Traditional Territories.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Janette Bulkan

Student:

Tonya Smith

Partner:

Lil’wat Management Services LP

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Aboriginal affairs

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of male infertility

Infertility is a health issue that affects over half a million Canadian of childbearing age. Half of these cases are related to male reproductive dysfunctions. While semen analysis provides information about some causes of male infertility, about thirty percent of these cases remains unexplained. In this context, the main goal of our project is to assess the potential of target molecules, which are secreted from the internal organs of the male reproductive system into the seminal plasma, as biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of infertility. This project is stemming from preliminary results published by our group and collaborators on a transgenic mouse model presenting with a male infertility phenotype. For instance, we showed that the expression of distinct secreted proteins as well as extracellular non-coding RNA originating from the epididymis are significantly impaired in this model. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clémence Belleannée

Student:

Olivia Jerczynski

Partner:

CReATe Program Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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