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Frank Deer

Frank Deer is a professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Manitoba. Frank is Kanien…

+ Indigenous language educationIndigenous language education
+ Indigenous religious and spiri…Indigenous religious and spiritual orientatio…
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Emilio I. Alarcon

Dr. Alarcon was born in Santiago, Chile. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry under the supervision of…

+ Biomaterials & peptidesBiomaterials & peptides
+ Tissue engineeringTissue engineering
+ Accessibility and social justi…Accessibility and social justice
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Mark Green

Professor of civil engineering who is interested in the structural performance in fire of concrete s…

+ Fire engineeringFire engineering
+ Concrete structuresConcrete structures
+ Indigenous research in enginee…Indigenous research in engineering
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Richard Lachman

Richard Lachman is a Professor in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, where…

+ Digital Culture and SocietyDigital Culture and Society
+ AIAI
+ Social MediaSocial Media
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Alexander Baker

Dr. Alexander Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University…

+ Non-canonical amino acid synth…Non-canonical amino acid synthesis
+ Conductive hydrogelsConductive hydrogels
+ Cell-free protein expressionCell-free protein expression
Jeffrey Zurek: Profile Photo

Jeffrey Zurek

Dr. Jeffrey Zurek is a registered Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) and a practicing Geophysicist w…

+ VolcanologyVolcanology
+ GeophysicsGeophysics
+ Potential fieldsPotential fields
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Marc Therrien

Research in the field of signal tranduction with over 20 years of experience

+ Signal transductionSignal transduction
+ Molecular and cell biologyMolecular and cell biology
+ Structural biology and drug di…Structural biology and drug discovery
Gwen Grinyer: Profile Photo

Gwen Grinyer

Dr. Grinyer obtained her B.Sc. in physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. She then complet…

+ RadioactivityRadioactivity
+ Nuclear PhysicsNuclear Physics
+ Gamma-ray SpectroscopyGamma-ray Spectroscopy
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Solmaz Karamikamkar

Dr. Karamikamkar is an Assistant Professor at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University (…

+ Biomaterial Science and Engine…Biomaterial Science and Engineering
+ Advanced ManufacturingAdvanced Manufacturing
+ Porous MediaPorous Media
Sarah Sabatinos: Profile Photo

Sarah Sabatinos

Researcher in field of cell cycle checkpoints, DNA replication & repair, and genome stability.

+ Genome stability mechanismsGenome stability mechanisms
+ DNA replication stability & mo…DNA replication stability & modeling
+ Applied molecular geneticsApplied molecular genetics
Hagar Labouta: Profile Photo

Hagar Labouta

Hagar Labouta is a Keenan Professor of Medical Discovery at Unity health Toronto and Assistant Profe…

+ Nanomedicine, Microfluidics, O…Nanomedicine, Microfluidics, Organ-on-a-chip,…
Carsten Krauss: Profile Photo

Carsten Krauss

Neutrino and dark matter experimentalist. Currently also serving as director of the Institute of Par…

+ Particle detectorsParticle detectors
+ Neutrino physicsNeutrino physics
+ Dark matter searchDark matter search
Marlene Oeffinger: Profile Photo

Marlene Oeffinger

The main work of my laboratory focuses on understanding the dynamic interactions and regulation alon…

+ RNA maturation, export and met…RNA maturation, export and metabolism
+ mRNA and ribosomal RNAmRNA and ribosomal RNA
+ proteomicsproteomics
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George Chaconas

Researcher of the Lyme disease spirochete for 25 years. My lab currently studies how these organisms…

+ The lyme disease spirochete Bo…The lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorf…
Shirin Seyedsalehi: Profile Photo

Shirin Seyedsalehi

Dr. Shirin Seyedsalehi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology Managem…

+ Information RetrievalInformation Retrieval
+ Natural Language ProcessingNatural Language Processing
+ Responsible AIResponsible AI
Laleh Behjat: Profile Photo

Laleh Behjat

Dr. Laleh Behjat is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the Univ…

+ Electronic Design automationElectronic Design automation
+ Sustainable systems: Transport…Sustainable systems: Transportation and healt…
+ Equity, diversity and inclusio…Equity, diversity and inclusion
Trushar Patel: Profile Photo

Trushar Patel

Dr. Trushar Patel is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in RNA in Protein Biophysics a…

+ BiochemistryBiochemistry
+ BiophysicsBiophysics
+ FlavivirusesFlaviviruses
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Robert Boily

Robert Boily is a Canadian scientist and long-time (>35 years) Senior Science Advisor to the Gove…

+ Electronics, Photonics, Nanote…Electronics, Photonics, Nanotechnology
+ High-Speed Imaging, Laser Visi…High-Speed Imaging, Laser Vision, 3D Vision, …
+ Electrical Energy, Photovoltai…Electrical Energy, Photovoltaics, Wind Energy…
Rhona Sinamtwa: Profile Photo

Rhona Sinamtwa

Over the past three years, I’ve focused on strategy, research, and collaboration in sustainability…

+ Sustainability, Strategy, Impa…Sustainability, Strategy, Impact
Stacey Wetmore: Profile Photo

Stacey Wetmore

I am a researcher in computational chemistry, with pioneering contributions to nucleic acid chemistr…

+ Computational ChemistryComputational Chemistry
+ DNA Damage, Repair, and Replic…DNA Damage, Repair, and Replication
+ RNA Modifications and Therapeu…RNA Modifications and Therapeutics
Eleanor Fish: Profile Photo

Eleanor Fish

Dr. Fish’s research focuses on understanding host-pathogen interactions, specifically in the conte…

+ antiviralsantivirals
+ immunologyimmunology
Alba Guarne: Profile Photo

Alba Guarne

Dr. Alba Guarné is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University and the Canad…

+ Structural BiologyStructural Biology
+ DNA damage and repairDNA damage and repair
+ DNA transpositionDNA transposition
Audrey Corbeil Therrien: Profile Photo

Audrey Corbeil Therrien

Building the smallest, fastest AI for scientific instruments.

+ Embedded Artificial Intelligen…Embedded Artificial Intelligence
+ Radiation InstrumentationRadiation Instrumentation
+ Medical ImagingMedical Imaging
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Melissa Valdez

Melissa Valdez is a physicist-turned-technology consultant helping businesses apply artificial intel…

+ Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence
+ PhysicsPhysics
+ Science OutreachScience Outreach

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