|
Faculty |
Number of Students |
Possible Topics |
|
Dr. David Campbell |
1-2 |
- l'écologie végétale des communautés (plant community ecology
- les milieux humides (wetlands)
- la biodiversité surtout des plantes (biodiversity especially plant biodiversity)
- la dendrochronologie (dendrochronology)
- l'écologie de la restauration (restoration ecology)
- la restauration minière (mine reclamation) |
|
Dr. Randy Dirszowsky |
1 |
- environmental reconstruction using lake sediments and other geobotanical and geomorphological indicators |
|
Dr. Tom Johnston |
1 |
- phenotypic divergence in pink salmon
- trophic specialization in benthivorous fishes of boreal lakes |
|
William Keller |
1-2 |
- monthly variations in summer zooplankton communities in lakes recovering from acidification - how well do single samples capture community composition?
- seasonal patterns in chlorophyll a and crustacean zooplankton communities in Precambrian Shield lakes - are long-term patterns synchronous or do they diverge with a warming climate? |
|
Dr. Tom Kovala |
2 |
- examination of the signal transduction patways induced by the phopholipid sphingosine 1-phosphate that regulate endothelial cell gene expression and how these pathways impact cellular differentiation, migration, and cytokine expression - the focus is on the activation and role of the JAK-STAT signalling pathways |
|
Dr. Carita Lannér |
2 |
- begin selection of a chemotherapy resistant ovarian cancer cell line
- proteomic comparison of ovarian cancer cell lines
- QPCR validation of gene expression changes in ovarian cancer cell lines |
|
Dr. Léo Leduc |
2 |
- microbiology of acid mine drainage
- antimicrobial activity of plant extracts |
|
Dr. Hoyun Lee |
1-2 |
- cloning a tumor suppressor promoter
- development of cell lines for cancer drug study
- cell cycle and DNA replication
- characterization of natural products and synthetic compounds for their potential anticancer activity |
|
Dr. David Lesbarrères |
1 |
- ecological and immunlogical investigation of Ranavirus infection in leopard frogs |
|
Dr. Jacqueline Litzgus |
1 |
- the effects of highway construction on the ecology of turtle species at risk (this will be a summer paid position pending funding from Sudbury MNR) |
|
Dr. David MacLean |
2 |
- skeletal muscle physiology/metabolism
- cardiovascular physiology
- regulation of skeletal muscle blood flow
- impact of hypoxia on muscle physiology
- anticancer drugs and cardiotoxicity
- anticancer drugs and skeletal muscle cachexia/wasting |
|
Dr. Mery Martínez |
2 |
- determination of the minimum critical oxygen tension of different fish species
- reproductive success and metal contamination of fathead minnow
- effects of hypoxia on early developmental stages of fathead minnow
- long-term adaptation or seasonal variation in traits of stress tolerance in fish |
|
Dr. Abdel Omri |
2 |
- new strategies to overcome antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burckholderia cenocepacia in cystic firbrosis patients
- novel strategies to control biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- microbiology and pharmacology of cystic fibrosis
- biomaterial-related infection |
|
Dr. Charles Ramcharan |
2 |
- a comparison of sampling aquatic invertebrates using a biodiversity approach and a quantitative method
- enzyme-based estimation of prey fish activity levels in lakes with different regimes of piscivores
- determining the role of sediment-borne metals in the recovery of benthic ivertebrates in Sudbury area lakes
- resurrecting past genotypes of zooplankon across a time series of industrial damage |
|
Dr. Peter Ryser |
1-2 |
- plant adaptation to stress and disturbance |
|
Dr. Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde |
1-2 |
- behavioural ecology of vertebrates |
|
Dr. Leslie Sutherland |
1 |
- expression analysis of RNA isoforms in cancer cell lines |