Innovative Projects Realized

Évaluation des stocks de C et du potentiel de séquestration en C des milieux humides

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Projet pilote : adaptation de la plateforme Inpowr à une population d’adolescents et de jeunes adultes avec un trouble psychiatrique

Le présent projet répond à la nécessité de développer des outils visant l’autonomisation et l’amélioration de la santé générale des jeunes atteints de pathologies chroniques. À cet effet, la plateforme Inpowr est un espace web qui permet de jauger son bien-être personnel par l’entremise de questions générales, de se fixer des buts précis, des comportements à modifier ou adopter dans sa vie pour améliorer son bien-être et sa santé. Le projet pilote présenté dans le cadre de cette demande vise l’adaptation de la plateforme inpowr à la clientèle adolescent/ jeune adulte dans le cadre du projet Espace transition, un programme de support utilisant les arts afin de favoriser la réinsertion sociale de jeunes présentant un trouble psychiatrique stabilisé.

Post-fire Caribou Habitat Regeneration in Ulkatcho Territory

Woodland caribou in the West Chilcotin are Threatened and face population decline due to habitat loss and increased predation. In winter, caribou in this area are dependant on lichen foraging underneath the snowpack, with mature lodgepole pine forests providing suitable lichen availability and predator avoidance. For the Rainbows Mountains and Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou herds, pine beetle outbreak and forestry has severely reduced the size and quality of winter habitat. Both of these herds are in long-term decline, and the nearby Charlotte Alpands herd is believed to be already extirpated. As wildfires increase in frequency and intensity across British Columbia, uncertainty remains on how caribou lichens regenerate following wildfire. This research studies the effects of wildfire on lichen and caribou habitat regeneration in Ulkatcho Territory, and will also investigate post- fire regeneration of culturally important vegetation speciessoopolallie, Labrador tea and pine mushroom.

Influence of various contamination sources on the Community composition of a hydrocarbon-degrading microbial consortium.

This project seeks to evaluate how contamination can influence the growth of a bacterial community. These experiments will be performed using small scale bioreactors in a lab setting, where 1 contamination source can be evaluated at a time. The results of these experiments will be evaluated by using 16s Amplicon sequencing to determine which bacterial species are present at the end of the experiment. We will be able to compare these results to the community grown in the sterile conditions to see how the community changed in the presence of contamination.

3D Telomeric Signatures Define Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and characterize CTC Subpopulations in Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer Patients

In Canada, 1 in 7 men are likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is currently not recommended in Canada as population based screening test. Prostate cancer, like other tumors, disperses tumor cells into circulation. If effectively isolated, molecularly analyzed and characterized, CTCs are potentially a reliable biomarker for early, efficient prostate cancer diagnosis and management.
Intermediate risk prostate cancer patients are enrolled for this study from Prostate Cancer Centre, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology (MICB), CancerCare. CTCs are isolated from 3mls of patients’ blood using a size-based filter and their telomeric profiles compared with their clinical data after blind analysis is done.
Preliminary data from the 175 samples analyzed to date shows that this study could lead to earlier diagnosis and personalized management of prostate cancer, which are the main goals of Prostate Cancer Canada.

Municipal green waste as feedstock for fermentations

Development of sustainable own-fiber-reenforced composites from biopolymers

Building Laser systems in the context of quantum optics

Internship at DFKI Marine Perception in Automated Machine Learning

Congested user-choice EV charging location model

Circuit électrique, operated by Hydro-Québec, currently owns most of the public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) in Quebec. Over the next few years, more charging station owners are expected to enter the market. This makes it necessary to anticipate the impact of competition in terms of service quality. This places us in the domain of game theory and optimization, since we must account for the behavior of individual agents (station owners and EV users) aiming to optimize their individual goals and preferences. The objective of this project is to develop a model accounting for: 1) EV user choice of stations; 2) congestion at stations; and 3) the existence of stations from different companies. In this way, the computation of valuable descriptive metrics, such as the throughput rate at each station, can be obtained to inform infrastructure expansion decisions.

Precision analysis of a solar simulator with xenon lamp for solar module technology

Artificial tumour model: the role of mechanical properties in cancer cell malignancy