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Résultats du concours du Programme de suppléments d'accélération à la découverte de 2018
Le CRSNG est fier d'annoncer les résultats du concours du Programme de suppléments d'accélération à la découverte (SAD) de 2018.
Le Programme de SAD vise à fournir en temps opportun d'importantes ressources supplémentaires afin d'accélérer le progrès et de maximiser les retombées de programmes de recherche exceptionnels. En 2018 le CRSNG a accordé 15 millions de dollars à 125 chercheurs mis en candidature au concours de SAD. Les suppléments sont d'une valeur totale de 120 000 $ et sont versés sur une période de trois ans.
La liste des candidats retenus se trouve ci-dessous :
| Nom | Titre de la recherche | Université |
|---|---|---|
| Holt, Jason | Nuclear theory for fundamental symmetries | TRIUMF |
| Galea, Liisa | Hormones and Learning and Memory | The University of British Columbia |
| Scott, Graham | Evolved mechanisms of hypoxia resistance in high-altitude natives | McMaster University |
| Hawke, Thomas | Unravelling the Impact of Adipokines on Muscle Satellite Cell Regulation | McMaster University |
| Moorhead, Gregory | Dissecting the function of Arabidopsis chloroplast, mitochondrial and cytosolic bacterial-like protein phosphatases | University of Calgary |
| Spering, Miriam | Human eye movements as a model of visual prediction | The University of British Columbia |
| Danckert, James | Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom. | University of Waterloo |
| Castelhano, Monica | Scene Structure and Surfaces: Viewing strategies effects on attention, learning, and memory | Queen's University |
| Donini, Andrew | Ion, water and ammonia regulation in aquatic insects | York University |
| Gribble, Paul | Somatosensory Basis of Human Motor Learning | The University of Western Ontario |
| Holmes, Melissa | Neuroendocrine regulation of individual differences in social phenotype | University of Toronto |
| Winters, Boyer | Neural mechanisms underlying memory destabilization and modification | University of Guelph |
| Boire, Denis | Linking cortical circuits to subcortical output structure | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières |
| Cutter, Asher | Sperm, speciation and gene drives in evolution | University of Toronto |
| Baum, Julia | Illuminating Mechanisms of Resilience to Climate Change in Marine Ecosystems | University of Victoria |
| O'Connor, Mary | Developing a Metabolic Scaling and Biodiversity Framework to estimate Ecosystem Adaptive Capacity | The University of British Columbia |
| Maherali, Hafiz | Ecology and evolution of the mycorrhizal mutualism in a changing environment | University of Guelph |
| Richards, Miriam | Long-term studies of bee social behaviour, ecology, and evolution | Brock University |
| Krkosek, Martin | Marine Epidemiology | University of Toronto |
| Mideo, Nicole | Causes and consequences of variation in parasite traits | University of Toronto |
| Algar, W Russ | Developing New Tools for Bioanalysis and Imaging Using Advanced Fluorescent Materials | The University of British Columbia |
| Goussev, Dmitri | Advanced sustainable and clean all-in-one catalytic technologies for the dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols and reduction of carbonyl functionalities | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Murugesu, Muralee | Inorganic Materials for Transformative Technologies | University of Ottawa |
| Harrington, Matthew | Generation and Self-Assembly of Novel Polymeric Materials Inspired by Nature | McGill University |
| Young, Cora | Development and application of new analytical approaches to understand the chemistry of the atmospheric condensed phase | York University |
| Broderick, Avery | Resolving Black Holes: Black Hole Astrophysics in the Era of the Event Horizon Telescope | University of Waterloo |
| Burkov, Anton | Topological metals | University of Waterloo |
| Garate, Ion | Topological materials: from fundamentals to applications | Université de Sherbrooke |
| Yang, Huan | Strong-gravity compact objects and fundamental gravity tests in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy | University of Guelph |
| Hawthorn, David | Probing Intertwined Order in Quantum Materials | University of Waterloo |
| Myatt, Jason | Development of multi-scale simulation tools for laser-plasma interactions and their validation against fusion experiments | University of Alberta |
| Liu, Yajing | Earthquake source processes of natural and anthropogenic origins | McGill University |
| Currie, Claire | Geodynamics of continents and convergent plate margins | University of Alberta |
| Steele-MacInnis, Matthew | Hydrothermal properties of complex aqueous solutions, and applications to ore-forming systems | University of Alberta |
| Secco, Richard | Experimental Studies of Earth and Planetary Materials at Extreme Conditions of Pressure and Temperature | The University of Western Ontario |
| Dufour, Carolina | Uptake, transport and subduction of heat and carbon in the Southern Ocean | McGill University |
| Jensen, Britta | Building volcanic ash records to date and correlate paleoenvironmental archives and improve volcanic histories | University of Alberta |
| Sarkar, Anoop | Structured Attention in Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing | Simon Fraser University |
| Pekhimenko, Gennady | Exploiting Hardware Heterogeneity for Efficient Execution of Emerging Applications | University of Toronto |
| Zhu, Xiaodan | Exploring Better Distributed Representation and Composition Models for Semantics | Queen's University |
| Jiang, Hui | Exploring New Neural Computing Models for Natural Language Understanding | York University |
| McIlraith, Sheila | New Directions in AI Planning and Decision Making | University of Toronto |
| Sigal, Leonid | Web-Scale Semantic Image and Video Understanding | The University of British Columbia |
| Wildes, Richard | Hierarchical Representation and Analysis of Visual Spacetime | York University |
| Aïmeur, Esma | A Quest for Harmony between Privacy and Personalization: A User-Centric Approach | Université de Montréal |
| Wood, Frank | Advanced Probabilistic Programming | The University of British Columbia |
| Delgrande, James | Belief change in knowledge-based agents | Simon Fraser University |
| Siddiqi, Kaleem | Diffusion and Geometry in Modeling Biological Tissue | McGill University |
| Vogel, Daniel | Human-Computer Interaction in Spatial Augmented Reality | University of Waterloo |
| White, Martha | Sparse representations for reinforcement learning | University of Alberta |
| Bachmann, Sven | Interacting dynamics and exotic phases of quantum lattice systems | The University of British Columbia |
| Kamnitzer, Joel | Geometric representation theory and crystals | University of Toronto |
| Wang, Ruodu | Model uncertainty and robustness in risk management | University of Waterloo |
| Lessard, Jean-Philippe | Rigorously Verified Numerics for High Dimensional Dynamics | McGill University |
| Marcolli, Matilde | New Geometric Models for Theoretical Physics and for Computational Linguistics | University of Toronto |
| Sun, Lei | Robust and set-based association analyses of complex genetic data | University of Toronto |
| Heffernan, Jane | New and enhanced models in disease modelling: The trade-off between biological detail and mathematical complexity | York University |
| Gagnon, Graham | Optimizing Biofilm Processes for Drinking Water Treatment | Dalhousie University |
| Christopoulos, Constantin | Wind and Earthquake Resilience of High-Rise Buildings | University of Toronto |
| Bitsuamlak, Girma | Novel computational and experimental wind engineering approaches for community level performance assessment | The University of Western Ontario |
| Lake, Craig | Transport of Dioxins and Furans Through Geotextiles During Sediment Dewatering | Dalhousie University |
| Zhang, Baiyu | Biosurfactants as Agents of Marine Oil Spill Response in the North: Production, Mechanism, Effectiveness and Impact | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Gerhard, Jason | Environmentally-Beneficial Smouldering for Converting Organic Wastes and Pollutants to Energy and Resources | The University of Western Ontario |
| Liu, Jinxia | Enhancing the understanding of microbial transformation of polyfluoroalkyl chemicals and microbial defluorination | McGill University |
| Razavi, Saiedeh | Smarter Work Zone: Advancing Situation Management for Work Zone Safety and Mobility | McMaster University |
| Yuksel, Serdar | Stochastic control: Decentralization, robustness and learning, and information constraints | Queen's University |
| Dong, Xiaodai | Wireless Connectivity Fabric for Internet of Things | University of Victoria |
| Belostotski, Leonid | Integrated Circuits for Radio-Frequency Multi-Beam Beamformers and Receivers | University of Calgary |
| Fear, Elise | Microwave imaging and sensing for biomedical applications | University of Calgary |
| Hum, Sean | Material-Centric Design of Advanced Electromagnetic Surfaces | University of Toronto |
| LaPierre, Ray | Nanowire Frontiers: Materials and Devices | McMaster University |
| Chin, Ya-Huei (Cathy) | Atomic Efficient Catalytic Technology for Sustainable Chemical and Fuel Syntheses Enabled by Active Site Coupling and Kinetic Property Tuning | University of Toronto |
| Mequanint, Kibret | Instructive Biomaterials-based Platforms for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine | The University of Western Ontario |
| Ricardez-Sandoval, Luis | Optimal design, scheduling and control of chemical processes and emerging energy systems for sustainable and flexible operations under uncertainty | University of Waterloo |
| Singh, Chandra Veer | Probabilistic Machine Learning Driven Discovery and Design of New Materials for Sustainable Energy and Transport | University of Toronto |
| Vetrone, Fiorenzo | Luminescent Nanostructures: Controlling Nanoscale Architecture for Multifunctionality | Institut national de la recherche scientifique |
| Wang, Xiaolei | Advanced Materials for Novel Energy Storage Technologies Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries | Concordia University |
| Ramchandran, Arun | Tailoring emulsions of complex fluids for precise wetting and coalescence rates | University of Toronto |
| Johansen, Craig | Adverse Effects of Using Laser Diagnostics in High-Speed Compressible Flows | University of Calgary |
| Daun, Kyle | Laser-Based Diagnostics for Aerosolized Nanoparticles | University of Waterloo |
| Tang, Tian | Fundamentals and Applications of Adhesion in Soft Matter | University of Alberta |
| Brouillette, Martin | Towards high-power density microsystems - Vers des microsystèmes à haute densité de puissance | Université de Sherbrooke |
| Goluskin, David | Estimating turbulence and chaos using semidefinite programming | University of Victoria |
| Johnson, Matthew | Quantification and Mitigation of Air Pollutant Emissions in the Upstream Oil and Gas Sector | Carleton University |
| Sparrey, Carolyn | Modeling Humans: Defining In Vivo Joint and Contact Characteristics | Simon Fraser University |
| Ingalls, Brian | Model-based design for synthetic (micro)biology | University of Waterloo |
| Hanington, Patrick | Characterization of the determinants of snail-schistosome compatibility | University of Alberta |
| McFarlane, Sarah | Environmental control of neural crest cell migration and proliferation | University of Calgary |
| Howe, LeAnn | Inheritance of histone post-translational modifications | The University of British Columbia |
| Schild-Poulter, Caroline | Molecular events regulated by the Ku heterodimer in non-homologous end-joining and DNA damage signaling pathways | The University of Western Ontario |
| Johnson, Philip | Functional and structural characterization of aptamers and their applications in DNA assemblies | York University |
| Matsubara, Joanne | Regulation of inflammasome activity by a classic anti-apoptotic protein, XIAP. | The University of British Columbia |
| Karas, Bogumil | Designer cells controlled by synthetic genomes. | The University of Western Ontario |
| Thompson, Roger | Pannexin-1 channels as facilitators of anandamide membrane transpor | University of Calgary |
| Shapiro, Rebecca | Dissecting complex genetic interaction networks mediating the fungal stress response | University of Guelph |
| Le Ny, Jerome | Sensing Strategies for Autonomous and Large-Scale Control Systems | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Parent, Martin | Etude comparée de lòrganization anatomique et neurochimique de la vois striatofuge chez les rongeurs et le primates | Université Laval |
| Reinke, Aaron | Mechanisms of Transgenerational immunity in Caenhabdoritis elegans in response to microsporidia infection | University of Toronto |
| Terebiznik, Mauricio | Phagocytosis of filamentous fungi by macrophages | University of Toronto |
| Jonz, Michael | Respiratory epithelia in vertebrates: sites of chemosensing and neurogenesis | University of Ottawa |
| Girouard, Hélène | Mechanisms underlying neurovascular coupling | Université de Montréal |
| Choleris, Elena | Neuroendocrinology of Social Cognition | University of Guelph |
| Novales Flamarique, Inigo | Colour and polarization visual pathways of the northern anchovy: from neuroethology to machine sensor technology | Simon Fraser University |
| Barrett, Louise | Behavioural Flexibility, Fertility and Social Network Influences in Human and Non-Human Primates | University of Lethbridge |
| Luyt, Leonard | Chemical Technology for Imaging Agent Discovery | The University of Western Ontario |
| Moores, Audrey | Sustainable Nanoparticles: Plasmonic Photocatalysis and Solid-State Synthesis of Nanomaterials | McGill University |
| Zhao, Yaoyao | Function-driven design and simulation methods for hierarchical multi-material structures fabricated via additive manufacturing processes | McGill University |
| Zhu, Zheng Hong | Dynamics and Control of Tethered Spacecraft Systems | York University |
| Marquez, Horacio | Event-Triggered Approach to Control of Nonlinear Systems | University of Alberta |
| Maggiore, Manfredi | New motion control tools for robotics and rehabilitation | University of Toronto |
| Boulon, Loïc | Démarrage adaptatif des systèmes piles à combustible pour les conditions hivernales du Canada | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières |
| Hashisho, Zaher | VOC emission control using novel adsorbents and their regeneration | University of Alberta |
| Siemens, Greg | Integrated studies on soil-structure-climate interactions in susceptible environments to limit effects of climate change on at-risk Canadian infrastructure | Royal Military College of Canada |
| Jaimungal, Sebastian | Control and Games in Intraday Markets | University of Toronto |
| Kennedy, Matthew | Operator algebras associated to groups and noncommutative convexity | University of Waterloo |
| Gao, Xin | Statistical Methods for Model Selection and Model Comparison | York University |
| Fritz, Thomas | Task detection and support for software developers | The University of British Columbia |
| Schulte, Oliver | Hierarchical Machine Learning for Information Networks | Simon Fraser University |
| Yin, KangKang | Advanced Modeling of Human Movement for Computer Animation | Simon Fraser University |
| Peak, John | Linking the field and the atomic scales: Soft x-ray spectroscopy of soil chemical processes | University of Saskatchewan |
| Zickfeld, Kirsten | Earth system response to atmospheric carbon dioxide removal | Simon Fraser University |
| McIlroy, Duncan | The evolution of organism sediment interactions in the early benthos | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Boland, Mark | Low Emittance Electron Beam Generation for Ultra Brilliant Synchrotron Radiation Sources | University of Saskatchewan |
| van Kerkwijk, Marten | Probing Extreme (Astro)Physics with Neutron Stars | University of Toronto |
| Clark, Kenneth | Characterization of Crustacean Innate Immune Response | Mount Allison University |