Banting Postdoctoral Researchers 2020–2021

CIHR

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Ali, Tahir Photo courtesy of Riley Brandt; Office of Advancement, University of Calgary	University of Calgary	Health Research	Cyp46A1 as a novel therapeutic target in prion diseases
Assinck, Peggy	University of Cambridge (UK)	Cell Biology	Novel approaches to understand and enhance gray matter remyelination during aging
Babaian, Artem	University of Cambridge (UK)	Cancer	Delineating the molecular mechanism of the hyper-modified ribosomal RNA residue 18S.1248.macp[Psi] in cancer translation
Baril, Andrée-Ann	McGill University	Aging	The circadian clock and Alzheimer's disease pathology
Bogoslowski, Ania	University of British Columbia	Immunology - Transplantation	Characterization of neuroimmune interactions in the tumour microenvironment
Cook, David	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (Toronto)	Cancer	Regenerative plasticity in colorectal cancer
de Kock, Leanne	Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute	Genetics	Solve-Mosaicism: Using deep-DNA and single-cell sequencing to investigate the contribution of mosaicism to unsolved rare genetic disease
Dron, Jacqueline	Massachusetts General Hospital	Genetics	Leveraging genomic, metabolomic, and proteomic data to identify clinically-relevant subtypes and new pathways driving risk of coronary artery disease
Fontaine, Guillaume Photo courtesy of Vadim Daniel	University of Ottawa	Health Services Research	Contributing to Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Eradication in Canada: An Implementation Science-based Approach to Promoting Equitable Access to HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs
Gagné, Thierry	University College London (UK)	Population Health	Young adults in a changing world: linking changes in the transition to adulthood to trends in wellbeing in the United Kingdom
Houlahan, Kathleen	Stanford University (California)	Cancer	Microenvironmental determinants of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) progression to invasive breast cancer
Karamouzian, Mohammad Photo courtesy of UBC	Brown University (Rhode Island)	Population Health	Identifying spatial patterns and neighborhood-level risks of opioid-related overdoses to guide implementation of overdose prevention interventions
Kolla, Gillian	University of Victoria (British Columbia)	Health Services Research	A comparative analysis of Safer Supply interventions to address the dual public health crises of overdose and COVID-19 in BC and Ontario
Lim, Kenji Rowel	Washington University (St. Louis)	Cardiovascular	Understanding the role of cardiac macrophages in the recovery of heart failure
Martin, Benjamin Photo courtesy of Kathryn Martin	Harvard Medical School	Molecular Biology	Dissecting mechanisms of mammalian gene regulation by the essential histone acetyltransferases p300 and CBP
Morton, Emma Photo courtesy of Christopher Young	University of British Columbia	Mental Health	Towards a future optimising quality of life in bipolar disorder: A focus on digital health
Nosrati, Reyhaneh Photo courtesy of Mahdi Saberi	Massachusetts General Hospital	Imaging	Synergistic application of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and high-resolution Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) for accurate tumor delineation in radiation therapy treatment planning of glioblastomas
Pires, Layla	University Health Network (Toronto)	Cancer	Upregulation of immune response to reduce tumor progression and metastasis of  melanoma using photodynamic therapy
Okeme, Joseph Photo courtesy of SETAC	Yale University	Environmental Influences on Health	Mapping the exposome to identify environmental influences on early onset inflammatory bowel disease
Oliveria, John Paul	Stanford University (California)	Aging	Blood-brain-barrier dynamics in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
Rawji, Khalil	University of Cambridge (UK)	Nervous System	Investigating the Effect of the Ageing Astrocyte Secretome on Regeneration in the Central Nervous System
Toombs, Elaine	Lakehead University	Mental Health	Supporting First Nations Access to Mental Wellness through eHealth Services For Substance Use Treatment
Wynn, Jordana Photo courtesy of Adam Frost	Harvard University	Aging	The Relationship Between Overt Visual Attention and Constructive Episodic Simulation in Older Adults

NSERC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Adair, Keegan	Argonne National Laboratory	Materials Science and Technology	Beyond Li ion Batteries: Design, Understanding, and Implementation of a New High-Energy Density Anode-Free Solid-State Li-Sulfur battery for Electric Vehicle Applications
Artelle, Kyle Photo courtesy of Andy Wright	University of British Columbia	Evolution and Ecology - Biogeography and Landscape Ecology	Elucidating muti-scaled linkages between food security and stewardship: Food production and conservation potential of intact landscapes across Canada
Barclay, Kristina Photo courtesy of Adam Deunk	University of Victoria	Evolution and Ecology	Ghosts of crabs past: Rapid-assessment conservation paleobiology tools to establish baselines and assess the health of data-poor coastal resources vulnerable to global change
Blouin, Simon	University of Victoria	Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics	Performing the First-Ever Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Core Helium Burning in Stars to Unlock the Full Potential of White Dwarf Age Dating
Borden, Kira	University of Guelph	Earth Science	Belowground investigations of crop root-soil interactions that regulate emissions of greenhouse gases from diversified agroecosystems
Chen, Zhu	University of Toronto	Materials Science and Technology	Developing Active, Selective and Stable Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Cloutier, Ryan Photo courtesy of Alyssa Molinaro	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics	Rocks and gas: understanding the formation of the galaxy's most common planets around its most common stars
Day, Ryan Photo courtesy of Sarah Peters	University of California - Berkeley	Physics and Astronomy - Condensed Matter Physics	Collective Excitations in Quantum Materials For Next-Generation Computation
Grainger, Tess	University of British Columbia	Evolution and Ecology	The effect of temperature on the speed of evolution
Grayson, Phil	University of Manitoba	Genetics	The functional and evolutionary consequences of within-species GC variability in the sea lamprey genome: A compelling case for differential germline retention and genomic mosaicism
Li, Tengfei	University of Cambridge	Polymer Chemistry	Selective Conversion of Addition Polymers into Organic Acids via Photochemical and Electrochemical C-H Oxidations
McDiarmid, Troy	The University of Washington	Genetics	Massively parallel functional dissection of neuronal super-enhancers
Mills, L. Reginald Photo courtesy of Jonathan M. Darmon	Princeton University	Organic Chemistry	Cobalt Catalysis as an Inexpensive, Earth-Abundant Platform for the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals
Naderi, Mohammad Photo courtesy of Faham Negini	York University	Plant and Animal Biology - Neurophysiology	Deciphering the role of environmental contaminants, bisphenol A and bisphenol S, in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder using zebrafish as a model system
Panferov, Vasily	York University	Analytical Chemistry	Innovative Point-of-Care Monitoring of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Early-Stage Diagnosis of Sepsis
Pearce, Ben Photo courtesy of Ryan Trepanier	Johns Hopkins University	Atmospheric Science	From the Early Earth Atmosphere to the Origin of RNA in Warm Little Ponds
Rodríguez Seco, Cristina	Institut national de la recherche scientifique	Materials Science and Technology	Development of integrated 2-electrode photobatteries by exploring doped C3N4 quantum dots (QDs) as photoelectrodes
Sales, Lilian Photo courtesy of Concordia University	Concordia University	Biogeography and Landscape Ecology	The future web of life: developing the next-generation of predictive biodiversity models
St. Pierre, Kyra	University of British Columbia	Aquatic Ecology and Limnology	What happens on land does not stay on land: towards the integration of biogeochemical cycles at the land-ocean interface
Sun, Chen	Université de Montréal	Computing Sciences - Artificial Intelligence	Incorporation of computational principles from the hippocampus to solve systematic generalization in Artificial Intelligence
Wang, Zaiwei	University of Toronto	Physical Chemistry	Sn-Pb mixed all-inorganic perovskites: promising candidates for highly efficient and stable single-junction and tandem solar cells
Webber, Quinn Photo courtesy of Victoria Snelgrov	University of Colorado at Boulder	Evolution and Ecology	The indirect genetic effects and density dependence of social networks
Zhu, Litao	University of British Columbia	Chemical Engineering	Machine learning assisted multiscale computational modeling of particle-laden flows: application to blood flow and targeted drug delivery
Zottig, Ximena	University of Massachusetts Medical School	Biophysics	Cell Entry Mechanism of a Non-Enveloped Virus Visualised by In-Situ High-Resolution Cryo-EM

SSHRC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Ayangma Bonoho, Simplice	Bishop's University	History	Le Canada et les politiques internationales de développement sanitaire en Afrique francophone après les indépendances (1960-1980)
Bélanger, David	Université de Montréal	Literature and Modern Languages	Du prêt à la faillite : l'imaginaire de la dette dans la littérature québécoise (1846-1945)
Brook, Taylor	University of Victoria	Fine Arts	A Cross-Cultural Analytical Framework for Pitch in Research-Creation
Campbell-Duruflé, Christopher	University of Cambridge	Law	State Accountability through Regime Interactions: Assessing Opportunities to Enhance the Implementation of the Paris Agreement
Dahl, Shayne Photo courtesy of Rob Olsen	The University of Lethbridge	Religious Studies	Global Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Asceticism in Global Discourses of Indigeneity
Del Gobbo, Daniel	McGill University	Law	Restorative Justice Revisionism: The Challenge of Transformative Justice for LGBTQ2 Peoples in Canada
Fabiano, John	Yale University	Classics, Classical & Dead Languages / History	Working for the City: Labour, Guilds, and the Socioeconomic Life of Non-Elite Urban Populations in the Late Roman West
Frotey, Julia	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Urban and Regional Studies, Environmental Studies	L'essor de la recharge intelligente pour véhicules électriques au Québec : quelle appropriation de la technologie intelligente par les institutions, les entreprises et les citoyens ?
Golubovic, Jelena	Tufts University	Anthropology	Covert Civilian Participation in Civil War Violence: A Political Ethnography of Denunciation
Hay, Travis	Lakehead University	History	Bringing It Back to Community: Archival Repatriation and Colonial Histories of Medicine in Northwestern Ontario, 1962-1999
Houston, Lloyd (Meadhbh)	University of Alberta	Literature and Modern Languages	Bad Seed: Anglophone Modernisms and the Politics of Sexual Health
Janssen, Niek	University of Toronto	Classics, Classical & Dead Languages	Appropriate Transgressions: Parody and Decorum in Ancient Greece and Rome
Kepkiewicz, Lauren Photo courtesy of Adam Linnard	University of Manitoba	Geography	Building relations across difference through Food Sovereignty in the Canadian Rockies
Lior, Anat	McGill University	Law	Insurability of Artificial Intelligence
MacKinnon, Anna Photo courtesy of Riley Brandt; Photography Specialist, Office of Advancement, University of Calgary	University of Calgary	Psychology	Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma: Development and Evaluation of the embrACE Parenting Program
Mackinnon, Debra Photo courtesy of Bernard Clark	University of Windsor	Sociology	In the Business of Policing: Examining the Intersection of Private Security, Surveillance Technologies and Public Private Partnerships in North American Business Improvement Areas
Molinaro, Monica	McMaster University	Sociology	Provider and Patient Experiences of Health Inequity in Primary Care: Navigating the entwinement of social and medical needs
Moore, Amber	Simon Fraser University	Education	Storied resistances: Rewriting & revisioning rape culture in YA fanfiction activist art
Oakes, Harrison Photo courtesy of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Waterloo	University College London	Interdisciplinary Studies	Let's Clarify a Few Things: Modelling the Causal Relationships Between Sexual Minority Men's (SMM) Mobile Dating App Use, Positive and Negative Outcomes, and Their Collective Effects on Mental Health
Sevi, Semra	Columbia University	Political Science	How do young voters and young ethnic minorities acquire party attachments?
Stahl, Darian Goldin Photo courtesy of Lisa Graves	University of Northern British Columbia	Fine Arts	Embodied Books: Binding Together Illness, Art, and Learning
Tam, Nga Yin (Agnes)	McGill University	Philosophy	Rescuing Democracy from Populism: A Case for Identity-Expressive Partisanship
Yaylaci, Şule Photo courtesy of William Carlquist	University of Pennsylvania	Political Science	Understanding and Reducing Outgroup Prejudice: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

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2021-07-15