Banting Fellows 2014–2015

CIHR

Name	Discipline	Host institution	Project titleFootnote 2
Alberga, Angela	Population Health	University of Calgary	Weight bias in the health and education sectors: Implications for population and public health
Babchishin, Kelly	Psychology	University of Ottawa	Causal factors for sexual offending: Evidence from a longitudinal study
Barbat, Sébastien	Cell Biology	Université de Montréal	Role of glial cells in aging of the neuromuscular junction: Modulation and regulation of the muscular profile
Gerstein, Aleeza	Genomics, Proteomics, And Bioinformatics	University of Minnesota	In vivo evolution of drug resistance in Cryptococcus
Hutchison, R. Matthew	Aging	Harvard University	Assessing disrupted brain activity in adults to develop non-invasive, preclinical biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease
Kim, Hosung	Imaging	University of California (San Francisco)	Assessment of brain structural development and prediction of neurological outcome in preterm neonates with brain injuries using surface-based statistical modeling of multicontrast MRI.
Kirby, Miranda	Imaging	The University of British Columbia	Developing Novel Computed Tomography Imaging Measurements for Predicting Accelerated Lung Function Decline in Individuals at Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Kwakkenbos, Linda	Psychosocial & Health Behavioural Research	McGill University	Overcoming barriers to developing, testing, and disseminating psychosocial and rehabilitation interventions in a rare disease context: Making patient-centered research for rare diseases a reality
Leidal, Andrew	Cancer	University of California (San Francisco)	Role of autophagy-dependent unconventional secretion in breast cancer progression
Leligdowicz, Aleksandra	Molecular Biology	University Health Network	Prognostic Biomarkers of Endothelial Activation and Dysfunction in Critically Ill Patients
Lima-Fernandes, Evelyne	Cell Biology	University of Toronto	Targeting Epigenetics in Colorectal Cancer
Mack, Stephen	Cancer	Cleveland Clinic	Exploring the Crosstalk between Tumour Metabolism and Chromatin State in Glioblastoma Stem Cells
Price, Feodor	Muscle, Bone, or Joint	Harvard Medical School	Discovery of Small Molecules to Treat Skeletal Muscle Sarcopenia
Sheeran, Paul	Cancer	Sunnybrook Research Institute	Development of a new anti-cancer drug delivery platform using acoustically activated nanoscale and microscale agents
Tang, Kenneth	Health Research	McMaster University	Risk and recovery profiles in occupational upper-extremity disorders: considering the work and gender context
Thomson, David	Aging	University of Toronto	Poor inhibitory control as a cause of sustained attention deficits in older adults
Timbers, Tiffany-Anne	Genomics, Proteomics, And Bioinformatics	Simon Fraser University	Combining Genomics and Phenomics to identify genes associated with human sensory disorders
Turner, Brianna	Mental Health	Harvard University	Does preference for immediate versus long-term outcomes predict adolescent suicidal behaviour? Development and validation of a novel assessment of decision-making.
Uddin, Mohammed	Genetics	Hospital For Sick Children	Somatic Variation in Single Neurons in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Veroniki, Areti Angeliki	Health Research	St. Michael's Hospital	Extending the methodology for evaluating consistency in networks of interventions using individual patient data
Widdifield, Jessica	Health Services Research	McGill University	An International Integrative Approach to Leveraging Electronic Health Databases for Outcomes Research in Rheumatology
Wong, Gary	Virology	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Structural characterization and optimization of ZMapp, an antibody cocktail efficacious against Ebola virus in nonhuman primates
Zimmermann, Michal	Molecular Biology	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Unraveling the molecular networks of DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice

NSERC

Name	Discipline	Host institution	Project titleFootnote 2
Kundalwal, Shailesh	Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering	University of Toronto	Characterizing the flexoelectric properties of carbon-based nanomaterials and nanostructures
Avgar, Tal	Evolution And Ecology - Animal Ecology	University of Alberta	From random walks to habitat selection: understanding and predicting animal occurrence in space and time
Bazargan, Vahid	Civil And Mechanical Engineering - Fluid Mechanics	University of Cambridge	Droplet-based microfluidic synthesis of supramolecular microcapsules with triggered or UV-controlled permeability
Biggar, Kyle	Cellular And Molecular Biology - Biochemistry	University of Western Ontario	Surviving hypoxia: Coordinating cellular low oxygen adaption through changes in protein methylation
Boguslawski, Katharina	Chemistry - Physical Chemistry	McMaster University	Breaking the Curse of Dimension in Actinide Chemistry: Using Relativistic, Open-Shell Geminal Methods to Provide an Efficient and Robust Computational Model for the Electronic Structure of Molecular Complexation in Nuclear Waste Reprocessing
Bouilly, Delphine	Physics And Astronomy - Condensed Matter Physics	Columbia University	Nanoscale electronic circuits to probe individual biomolecules
Chitnis, Saurabh	Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry	University of Bristol	Catalytic Dehydrocoupling Routes to Oligo- and Polyphosphorus Materials
Flower, Thomas	Evolution And Ecology - Animal Ecology	Simon Fraser University	Impacts of habitat fragmentation on nest predation behaviour: identifying conservation measures to manage the effects of forestry on threatened birds in British Columbia
Grosse, Roger	Computing Sciences - Artificial Intelligence	University of Toronto	Structure Discovery for Deep Third-Order Generative Models
He, Le	Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry	University of Toronto	Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels Production: Engineering Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2
Higgins, Drew	Chemical, Biomedical And Materials Science Engineering - Chemical Engineering	Stanford University	Understanding and improving the performance and durability of inexpensive, carbon-based air electrodes for alkaline membrane unitized regenerative fuel cells: a promising new approach to achieve grid scale energy storage targets
Kleiner, Manuel	Cellular And Molecular Biology - Microbiology	University of Calgary	Energy-efficient biochemistry for biological carbon capture and re-use
Korosi, Jennifer	Evolution and Ecology - Aquatic Ecology and Limnology	University of Ottawa	Paleoecotoxicology of Yellowknife lakes: A novel approach using lake sediment cores to reconstruct the impacts of legacy contaminants from gold mining on aquatic ecosystems.
MacMillan, Heath	Plant And Animal Biology - Animal Physiology And Metabolism	York University	Thermal plasticity and the renal system: The endocrine control of insect cold tolerance
Neukermans, Griet	Earth Sciences - Remote Sensing	Université Laval	Impact of recent climate change on phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean
Orihel, Diane	Evolution and Ecology - Ecotoxicology	University of Ottawa	Field Evaluation of Novel Ecotoxicological Tools to Support Responsible Resource Development of Canada’s Oil Sands
Ra, Yong-Ho	Electrical Engineering - Photon devices	McGill University	Alternative Energy: Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion via Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Water Splitting Using Nanoscale Semiconductors
Reddon, Adam	Evolution And Ecology - Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology	McGill University	The neural basis of social living: Examining the evolution of nonapeptide brain circuitry
Sederberg, Matthew	Physics And Astronomy - Optics	Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik	AttoSecond Physics at thE Nanoscale (ASPEN): extreme nonlinear optics and spatio-temporal imaging
Szpak, Paul	Archaeology	University of British Columbia	Historical Ecology of the Canadian Maritime Arctic
van Vugt, Floris	Psychology - Motor Systems and Performance	McGill University	Motor babbling: learning novel sensorimotor mappings
Verma, Mohit	Chemical, Biomedical And Materials Science Engineering - Materials Science And Technology	Harvard University	An in vitro model of the eye for characterizing infections and nanoparticle-cell interactions
Willems, Lianne	Chemistry - Organic Chemistry	Simon Fraser University	A new chemical tagging approach to study co-translational protein modification
Zhitomirsky, David	Physics And Astronomy - Fuel And Energy Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Engineering of Solar Thermal Fuels for Enhanced Energy Storage and Novel Device Applications

SSHRC

Name	Discipline	Host institution	Project TitleFootnote 2
Randles, Daniel	Psychology	University of Toronto	Focusing on the horizon: Leveraging goal-salience to maintain self-control and an achievement focus over long periods of time
Adachi, Paul	Psychology	University of Rochester	Human Need Satisfaction/Impedance as Mechanisms of the Effects of Video Game Competition on Aggression and Intergroup Cooperation in Video Games on Reducing Prejudice
Andrews, Nathan	Political Science	Queen's University	Don’t Just Tell Me, but Prove to Me: The Dialectics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Development, and Livelihoods in Ghana’s Oil Sector
Bacopoulos-Viau, Alexandra	History	McGill University	The (Re)Discovery of the Subconscious: Pierre Janet, Self and Trauma from 1900 to the Present
Badia, Lynn	Literature, American	University of Alberta	Imagining Free Energy: Fantasies, Utopias, and Critiques of America
Battershill, Claire	Literature, English	Simon Fraser University	Travelling Books: A Transnational History of Literary Publishers and their Archives, 1914-2014
Bennett, Nathan	Geography	University of Washington	Between Global Agreements and Local Conservation Actions
Brouder, Patrick	Geography	Brock University	Tourism Development Paths in the Niagara Region: Why Embracing Complexity will lead to Resilient Rural Communities
Buckwalter, Wesley	Philosophy	University of Waterloo	Connecting knowledge, theory and practice: An interdisciplinary approach
Burnett, Heather	Linguistics	University of Toronto	Sociolinguistic Insights into Formal Syntactic and Semantic Theory
Daigneault, Pierre-Marc	Political Science	École nationale d'administration publique	Recours prolongé à l’aide sociale et mesures d’activation: Le Supplément à la Prime au Travail favorise-t-il la transition vers l’emploi?
Epstein, Rachel	Sociology	Brock University	Breakups, Breakdowns, and Reconfigurations: Narratives of Conflict and Change in LGBTQ Families
Fritsch, Kelly	Interdisciplinary Studies	University of Toronto	The Political Economy of War, Disability, and Bodily Enhancement Technoscience
Gagné, Karine	Anthropology	Yale University	Nature, Infrastructure and Melting Ice: The Politics of the Zanskar River and the Taming of the Himalayan Mountains in India
Huggins, Christopher	Urban And Regional Studies, Environmental Studies	Wilfrid Laurier University	Governing New Digital Terrain: Private-public partnerships in information communication technology platforms for climate-smart agriculture and nutrition security in Malawi
Last, Richard	Religious Studies	York University	The Disappearance of Guilds from Social Histories of Ancient Christianity
Luka, Mary Elizabeth	Communications And Media Studies	York University	From creative citizenship in Canada to globally networked cultural collaboration
Odom, William	Communications And Media Studies	Simon Fraser University	Developing a theory and practice of slow interaction design
Peers, Danielle	Communications And Media Studies	Concordia University	Flourishing through community: Exploring collective strategies for meaningful disability support and inclusion
Puget, Julien	History	Université du Québec à Montréal	Fabrique de la ville et opinion publique : une expérience de l’espace à l’époque moderne. Paris, Marseille et Naples au XVIIIe siècle
Rosés Labrada, Jorge	Linguistics	The University of British Columbia	Glottalized Resonants in the Amazon and the Pacific Northwest: Documentation and Acoustic Properties
Scannell, Leila	Psychology	Royal Roads University	“That Was the Last Time I Saw My House...”: The Role of Place Attachment in Youth’s Disaster Recovery and Resilience
Thompson, Scott	Sociology	Queen's University	Then the Whites Came and Made Us Indians: Law, Categorization, Technologies of Governance, and the First Nations and Inuit Peoples of Canada, 1844-1985.

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2015-08-31