Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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Early Plant Cellular Responses to Carbon Dioxide (co2) and Mechanical Wounding: Redox and Transcriptomics
Julian Martinez Henao, Plant Science
January 21, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Bede
Citizen Science and Development of Innovative Tools to Improve Conservation of Threatened Bats
Amélie Fontaine, Natural Resource Sciences
February 9, 2022 | Supervisor: K. Elliott (NRS) | Co-Supervisor : A. Simard (Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec)
Effects of Bacillus Probiotics and Transfer of Fecal Microbiota on Production, Health, and Gut Microbiota of Broiler Chickens
Muhammad Bilal, Animal Science
February 21, 2022 | Supervisor: X. Zhao
Long Live the Cow: Using Machine Learning to Analyze Welfare, Longevity, Productivity, and Profitability of Dairy Cows
Gabriel M. Dallago, Animal Science
February 24, 2022 | Supervisor: E. Vasseur
Understanding the Transformation of Silica and Titania Particles in Food and their Interactions with Proteins of Relevance to Human Nutrition and Health
Wut Hmone Phue, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
February 28, 2022 | Supervisor: S. George
Advancing Wildfire Monitoring Using Multi-Scale Earth Observations
Morgan A. Crowley, Natural Resource Sciences
March 8, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Cardille
Plasma-Activated Water for Fresh Food Disinfection
Sellam Perinban, Bioresource Engineering
March 16, 2022 | Supervisor: V. Orsat | Co-Supervisor G.S.V. Raghavan
Polyetic Development of the Obligate Biotrophic Plant Pathogen Peronospora Destructor
Hervé Van der Heyden, Plant Science
March 29, 2022 | Supervisor: J.-B. Charron (PlantSci) | Co-Supervisor: O. Carisse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Metabolomic Modeling Approach for Functional Microbiome Analysis
Jasmine Chong, Parasitology
April 20, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Xia
Biotransformation of Biomass Waste Residues into Value-Added Chemicals using Filamentous Fungi
Derek Troiano, Bioresource Engineering
April 21, 2022 | Supervisor: V. Orsat, | Co-Supervisor: M.-J. Dumont
Characterization of Germination-Associated Thaumatin-like Proteins in Barley
Irfan Iqbal, Plant Science
April 26, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Singh
Development of a Non-Targeted Approach to Study the Uptake, Impact and Thermal Degradation of Nanoencapsulated Pesticides in Strawberry Plants and Fruits
Peiying Wang, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
May 10, 2022 | Supervisor: S. Bayen (FoodSci), | Co-Supervisor: V. Gravel (PlantSci)
Systematics, Taxonomy, and Diversity of Neotropical Leaf-Miner Flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
Stéphanie Boucher, Natural Resource Sciences
May 30, 2022 | Supervisor: C. Buddle
Designing Toxicogenomics to Support Decision Making in Environmental Toxicology
Jessica Ewald, Natural Resource Sciences
June 6, 2022 | Supervisor: N. Basu
Understanding Staphylococcus aureus and Associated Inter-Bacterial Interactions to Develop Prophylactics and Therapeutics for Bovine Clinical Mastitis
Soyoun Park, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
June 8, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Ronholm
An Adverse Outcome Pathway Model Approach for Understanding the Effects of Ingested Nanoparticles on the Gastrointestinal Tract
Ke Xu, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
July 6, 2022 | Supervisor: S. George (FoodSci), Co-Supervisor: N. Basu (Human Nutrition)
Architected Cellular Ferroelectric Metamaterials
Jiahao Shi, Bioresource Engineering
July 13, 2022 | Supervisor: H. Akbarzadeh
The Development of Aptamers for use with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensing as a Novel Detection Method for Legionella pneumophila (Lp)
Mariam Saad, Natural Resource Sciences
August 2, 2022 | Supervisor: S. Faucher, Co-Supervisor: M. Tabrizian (Biomedical Engineering)
Effects of environmental factors and agronomic practices on greenhouse gas emissions (Lp)
Kosoluchukwu Ekwunife, Bioresource Engineering
October 21, 2022 | Supervisor: C.A. Madramootoo
Development of an Intelligent System to Monitor Visual Attributes of Food in Real-time during Fluidized Bed Drying (Lp)
Anthony Chukwuemeka Iheonye, Bioresource Engineering
October 25, 2022 | Supervisor: G.S.V. Raghavan
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Participatory Video Education Intervention on Critical Nutrition Literacy of Adolescent Girls in Rural Ghana
Mona Ghadirian, School of Human Nutrition
October 26, 2022 | Supervisor: G. Marquis
Life Detection and Taxonomic Characterization with Minion Sequencing in Mars and Icy Worlds Analogue Environments
Catherine Maggiori, Natural Resource Sciences
November 16, 2022 | Supervisor: L. Whyte
Development of a Multi-Scenario Multi-Objective Analysis Framework to Explore Optimal, Resilient and Robust Solutions in Coupled Human-Water Systems
Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Bioresource Engineering
November 25, 2022 | Supervisor: J. Adamowski
Schistosoma mansoni-derived Extracellular Vesicles: Content, Origins, and Functions
Maude Dagenais, Institute of Parasitology
November 29, 2022 | Supervisor: T. Geary / Co-Supervisor: T. Long
Understanding how to increase women’s acceptance of and access to palm weevil larvae in peri-urban communities in the Ashanti region in Ghana
Loloah Chamoun, Human Nutrition
December 6, 2022 | Supervisor: H. Melgar-Quiñonez
Cellulose Nanocrystals Derived from Waste Textile for the Construction of Antibacterial Packaging Materials
Shuting Huang, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
December 7, 2022 | Supervisor: Y. Wang
Active and passive HVAC control through non-vegetated and hydroponically vegetated porous concrete for novel green infrastructure and controlled environment agriculture
Md Sazan Rahman, Bioresource Engineering
December 21, 2022 | Supervisor: M. Lefsrud
Role of callose in pollen tube invasive growth
Karuna Kapoor, Plant Science
January 17, 2023 | Supervisor: A. Geitmann
Deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction of Bacillus velezensis strain B26 with the model plant Brachypodium distachyon
Meha Sharma, Plant Science
January 25, 2023 | Supervisor: S. Jabaji
Design, evaluation, optimization, and adaptation of a web application for type 1 diabetes self-management
Li Feng Xie, School of Human Nutrition
January 30, 2023 | Supervisor: Anne-Sophie Brazeau
Intersectional Gender Analysis Approach on Women’s Empowerment and Food Security: A Case Study from Uganda
Farzaneh Barak, School of Human Nutrition
February 17, 2023 | Supervisor Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, Co-Supervisor Claudia Mitchell
Effects of early-life exposure to environmental pesticides in wild and laboratory fishes
Hugo Marchand, Natural Resource Sciences
February 17, 2023 | Supervisor Jessica Head
Anthelmintic resistance in Dirofilaria immitis: Mechanisms and molecular markers
Emily Curry, Institute of Parasitology
February 21, 2023 | Supervisor R. Prichard, Co-Supervisor A. Lespine (INRA French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France)
Macroaggregates formed from calcium oxide salts that resist abrasive forces in arid regions
Fatima Safar, Natural resource Sciences
February 24, 2023 | Supervisor Joann K. Whalen
The Response of Cannabis sativa L. to Three Novel Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: Yield and Cannabinoid and Terpene Profile
Dongmei Lyu, Plant Science
February 28, 2023 | Supervisor D. Smith
Optimization of Protocols for In Vitro Embryo Production Using Oocytes Derived from Juvenile Animals
Luke Currin, Animal Science
March 9, 2023 | Supervisor V. Bordignon
Environmental Drivers of Phenology in Seabirds
Shannon Whelan, Natural Resource Sciences
March 16, 2023 | Supervisor K. Elliott