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100% Ontario wines from Vidal and Marquette: Quality improvements to Increase Domestic Market Share

Research that supports Ontario’s wine industry has an opportunity to improve the quality of a white hybrid grape, Vidal, and to investigate the potential for a red hybrid grape, Marquette, which is seeing increased interest from growers and wineries. This project is a scientific evaluation of varying factors that could improve the expression of Vidal character in table wine and improve its market acceptability by assessing consumer preference. Preference testing of the wines will be conducted with a consumer panel to determine treatments with the highest consumer appeal and willingness to pay. Determination of preference drivers will guide future research to optimize quality entry-level Ontario wines with consumer appeal. This will help to better understand the sustainability of the Ontario wine industry in the current market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Debbie Inglis

Student:

Jennifer Kelly

Partner:

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Discipline:

Cultural studies

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Brock University

Program:

Accelerate

An integrated watershed-lake framework for water quality assessment in Toronto Harbour and Region Waterfront

This project aims to develop an integrated watershed-lake framework for Don River watershed draining into the Toronto Harbour to assess the best management practices towards improving the water quality in Toronto and Region Area of Concern (AOC). The framework will evaluate the impacts of suspended solids and bioavailable nutrients delivered by surface runoff and lake upwelling events on Toronto Harbour water quality, and their subsequent effects on eutrophication and growth of undesirable algae. The proposed modelling framework consists of four main modules: the Don River watershed model, the .ne-dimensional water/sediment routing model for the Don River, a three-dimensional hydrodynamic-water quality model for the Toronto Harbour, and a Bayesian-inference risk assessment module. The development of this serial-model ensemble will also facilitate the simulation of other spill events (e.g., Escherichia coli bacteria release due to sanitary and combined sewer overflows, oil spills, bird droppings), thereby serving as a comprehensive management tool for policy analysis. Hence, the proposed research can benefit the local management practices to more rigorously assess the exceedance probability and confidence of compliance with different water quality standards.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Arhonditsis

Student:

Ali Saber Sichani

Partner:

AEML Associates Ltd.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Experiences and perceptions of newcomer women navigating sexual and reproductive health in Metro Vancouver: Facilitators and barriers to access for screening, treatment and care of HIV & STI

As the number of im/migrant women in British Columbia (BC) continues to grow – the majority of whom are of reproductive age- there is a need to ensure that im/migrant women have adequate access to healthcare, including sexual health services. While BC is one of Canada’s top destinations for im/migrants, robust evidence regarding im/migrant women’s access to sexual health screenings (e.g., HIV, sexually transmitted infections) is particularly lacking. This study will assess the experiences and perceptions of im/migrant women on access to HIV & STI services, and will elucidate im/migration-related structural barriers and facilitators to inequities in navigating and accessing these services. The partner university for this work is Simon Fraser University and the partner organization is the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE), an independent research centre at Providence Health Care whose mandate is to advance gender and sexual health equity for marginalized populations by informing policy and practice with the best available science. CGSHE is comprised of a diverse team of researchers, clinicians, community-based staff, trainees, and policy and community-based partners with diverse expertise in the areas of im/migrant health, HIV/STIs, clinical and community-based im/migrant support, and clinical practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shira Goldenberg;Tania Bubela

Student:

Germaine Tuyisenge

Partner:

Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Genomic studies for fertility, health, and efficiency traits in dairy cattle

The advent of genomic selection in the dairy industry has increased genetic progress; however, new challenges are emerging. Rapid population growth and associated demographic and economic changes are increasing global demand for dairy products. Moreover, the industry must address several societal and consumer issues such as human health, animal health and welfare, and the environmental footprint (e.g., greenhouse gases, antibiotic and hormone use). These new challenges require an animal that is capable of adapting to changing environmental conditions without compromising its productivity, health or fertility while becoming more resource-efficient and reducing its environmental burden. Improvement in overall animal resilience will reduce costs for the Canadian dairy industry and provide wider benefits to society. This project aims to identify genomic markers (e.g., copy number variants) and perform genetic association analyses with traits related to resilience such as health, fertility and efficiency traits. The results will assist Lactanet (our industry partner) with the implementation of novel genomic tools for a selection index to increase dairy cow resilience in Canadian herds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christine Baes

Student:

Tatiane Cristina Seleguim Chud

Partner:

Lactanet

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Development of a novel cost-effective microfluidic platform for screening ophthalmic drugs and novel ophthalmic materials

The successful development of new drug formulations, delivery vehicles, and devices for the eye requires testing in physiologically relevant in vitro eye models. The use of cell tissue culture plates provides a good model for testing toxicity, but they lack some of the important factors present on the eye. There are microfluidic chips that have been developed for toxicity testing, but they are too expensive for use in early screening protocols.This project aims to develop a cost-effective microfluidic chip for rapid assessment of cytotoxicity of ophthalmic formulations and devices. The design, fabrication, and sterilization of the chips will use scalable methods. The chips will be designed using CAD software, and the resulting designs will be laser cut on acrylic. The resulting pieces will be laminated using double-sided medical adhesive and sterilized using hydrogen peroxide plasma.Conventional cell culturing methods will be employed to seed and grow human corneal epithelial cells on the chips. Validation studies will examine cell growth on the chips in comparison to an established control. Several toxicity studies will also be examined using the microfluidic chip, including the effects of flow, benzalkonium chloride at various concentrations, and contact lens materials exposed to preservatives.?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lyndon Jones

Student:

Furqan Maulvi

Partner:

OcuBlink

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

Portrait des organisations économiques privées offrant des services de soins au Québec et impacts socioéconomiques de leurs transformations

Le projet porte sur trois types d’organisations économiques offrant des services de soins privés au Québec et dont la main-d’œuvre est largement féminisée: 1) les agences privées d’aide à domicile; 2) les chaînes de résidences privées pour aînés; 3) les groupes de médecine de famille. Il vise d’abord à dresser leur portrait économique : structure de propriété et de gouvernance, stratégies d’affaire, part de marché, rendements/taux de profit et valeur boursière/immobilière. Il vise ensuite à analyser l’évolution des rapports entre ces organisations privées et le secteur public : part de financement public de leurs activités, proportion des fonds publics consacrés à ce financement, place occupée par ces organisations dans la dispensation des services, etc. Il vise enfin à évaluer les impacts socioéconomiques de cette évolution sous trois aspects : 1) impacts sur le marché de l’emploi dans le secteur des services de soins (qualité des emplois, disponibilité de la main-d’œuvre, etc.); 2) impacts sur les coûts et la qualité des services dispensés; 3) impacts sur les finances publiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Audrey Laurin-Lamothe

Student:

Anne Plourde

Partner:

Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économique

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Elevate

Smart Greenhouse: Applied computer vision and machine learning in greenhouse cultivation

Many of the current greenhouse cultivation processes can be labor intensive, unable to accurately capture all information on a plant, and hard to manage as grower’s operation scale. By proposing a new method of collecting and analyzing data in these greenhouse using computer vision and machine learning, interns will try to improve the efficiencies of these processes. This proposed system aims to collect valuable information such as plant dimensions and fruit sizes that was previously very inefficient for human labour to do, and to predicts most optimal growing environment with this data. Not only will the interns gain experience in applying their technical expertise in a real-world problem, this project also helps partner organization to discover and develop new products for greenhouse growers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Barczyk;Qing Zhao

Student:

Bowen Xie;Mingjie Han;Linjian Xiang

Partner:

Robolution

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Connecting atom-scale bentonite clay models to macroscale mechanical and transport models for spent nuclear fuel storage

Bentonite is a naturally occurring clay containing montmorillonite, a smectic clay mineral that has a high cation exchange capacity and swells upon contact with water. The swelling capacity of bentonite limits movement of water which makes it an attractive candidate to be used as an engineered barrier system to protect used nuclear fuel containers that are stored in deep geological repositories. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is responsible for Canada’s implementation of the plan for the long-term care of nuclear-spent fuel produced by Canadian nuclear reactors. The nuclear-spent fuel is to be deposited in steel canisters coated with 3 mm of corrosion-resistant copper and buried underground. In theory, temporal corrosion of copper is inhibited by the presence of bentonite. However, water and various ions can potentially reach the copper layer and disrupt its corrosion-resistance. The aim of this study is to use novel combination of the atomistic and mesoscale state-of-art methods to simulate the transport properties of water and various of ions in bentonite. The developed method will enable NWMO to better understand the transport through bentonite’s pore network.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Karim Karim Béland

Student:

Yaoting Zhang

Partner:

Nuclear Waste Management Organization

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Elevate

Assessing cumulative effects of development and climate change to inform land use planning in Yukon

The Yukon’s Northern Boreal Mountains region is under increasing pressure from human disturbance and climate change. Exploration of previously untapped natural resources is expanding in northern Canada, and northern ecosystems are thought to be more sensitive to climate stressors[1]. However, the cumulative effects of these co-occurring disturbances on wildlife populations, community structure, and habitat quality are not well understood and often only studied individually and at local scales. This project will investigate cumulative effects of human stressors (resource use, climate change) on (1) avian density, diversity, and community composition, and (2) on water quality in critical salmon spawning habitats at a regional scale. We define stressors as all human-induced activities and cumulative effects as the combined effects of multiple individual stressors on species or ecosystems over time and/or space. This work will identify how resource and climate stressors combine to influence ecosystem function. Results from this project will be used to inform conservation targets built around ecological thresholds for maintaining healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems. Recommendations resulting from this project will play a critical role in guiding sustainable development and habitat conservation, informing land use planning in the Yukon and other northern boreal ecosystems throughout Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle;Karsten Liber

Student:

Daniel Alexander Yip

Partner:

Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Improve workplace wellbeing using AI and organizational behavior software platform

behaviours within a given organization. This will allow to remedy and/or remove the counterproductive, and to enhance and enable positive behaviours, civility and engagement. The platform that will be developed is unique and distinctly not social feedback nor 360-degree feedback. The cloud-based systems that will be developed should detect, measure, map, correct, and sustain the quality of interactions and culture among members of an organization or a work group. We will define, guide and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to enhance the system functionalities for healthy work environments, and organizational remediation of counterproductive and bad behaviours (e.g. harassment, bullying, intolerance, discrimination, targeting, etc.).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nizar Bouguila

Student:

Pantea Koochemeshkian

Partner:

Beslogic

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Process Analytical Tools, Flow Cytometry and Raman Analysis for Cell Viability Studies

The objective is to develop an in-line Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tool to monitor viability and biomass levels at the fermentation stage bacterial organisms.
The Master student will be engaged in the development of the PAT tool for deployment into a state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing facility. The student will use benchtop tools such as flow cytometry to monitor the bacterial fermentation process and develop correlations to the inline measurements. This work will be conducted as follows:
• Develop flow cytometry method for monitoring cell viability for both seed expansion and fermentation phases.
• Develop correlations with inline PAT and offline viability measurements
• Develop methodology and general protocol for the usage flow cytometry to monitor bacterial cell viability.
• Validate PAT model against in process measurements.
• Generate report summarizing work performed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Evelyn Yim

Student:

Sarah Chan

Partner:

Sanofi Pasteur

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Developing a lipid nanoparticle-based gene therapy approach for the treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection

The current global health emergency surrounding the coronavirus outbreak highlights the need for new treatments to combat virus infections and ways to prevent similar outbreaks in the future. Our research team has devised novel strategies to develop an effective vaccine and anti-viral drugs to treat and prevent infections by such viruses. This grant application is designed to rapidly develop and test these therapies for use in the current outbreak and to limit the spread and health consequences of any similar outbreaks in the future

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Lewis;David Eisenstat

Student:

Maryam Hejazi;Douglas Brown;Bijal Rawal

Partner:

Entos Pharmaceuticals

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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