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Available Research Projects
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Schaeffer | David | Clinical oncology; Pathology (except oral pathology); Bioinformatics; cancer genetics; Cancer biology; Genomic rearrangements; genomics; Pancreas; Pathology; patient derived models | Any time / year round |
We conduct translational cancer research and have various ongoing projects focusing on Pancreatic Cancer. We are looking for students interested in a bioinformatics and bench top project studying genomic alterations and rearrangements and students interested in the development and use of patient deterived organoid models for translational research including drug screening, metabolism, and... Read More |
| Schmidt | Julia | Occupational therapy; Trauma / Injuries; cognition; Neurological diseases; Cognitive impairment; neuroscience; rehabilitation; Self-awareness; Self-identity; Traumatic Brain Injury | Any time / year round |
Dr. Schmidt's research investigates the alteration in a person’s life and brain after traumatic brain injury. Specifically, she is interested in self-awareness and self-identity changes after injury and neurological underpinnings of injury and recovery. Additionally, she aims to determine effective rehabilitation strategies and mechanisms of recovery for people with brain impairment. |
| Schoof | Christian | Geophysics; Ice and Snow; Transformation and Evolution of the Earth Surface; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic; Asymptotic and Classical Applied Analysis; Differential Equation; applied mathematics; glacier hydrology; Glaciology; ice sheet dynamics | Any time / year round |
Glacier surging, glacier and ice sheet hydrology, modelling ice sheet dynamics |
| Schummers | Laura | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health | 2024, 2025 |
Contraception policy: impacts on contraception use, pregnancy rates, pregnancy outcomes Conception cohorts: overcome methodological limitations in administrative population data to maximize pregnancy capture (including those ending before 20 gestational weeks)
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| Scott | Douglas | Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge | Any time / year round |
A wide range of topics within observational and theoretical cosmology |
| Semenoff | Gordon Walter | Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics | Any time / year round |
quantum field theory, string theory |
| Shadgan | Babak | Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Orthopedics; Sports medicine; Bone, skin and cartilage science; Central nervous system; Implantable Biosensing; sensor and system design, clinical application development; Wearable Biosensors; design and application development in health care and exercise sciences; Musculoskeletal, Sports & Exercise Medicine; Bone Fracture Healing; Spinal Cord Injuries | 2022 |
Implantable biosensors for monitoring organ health and function, Spinal cord hemodynamics monitoring, Bone healing research,
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| Shan | Hongxia | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
Migration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning in Asia; Work and learning; |
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| Sheel | William | Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle | 2026, 2027 |
Sex differences in airway anatomy and fatigue of the diaphragm. Effects of healthy ageing on the biology of exercise. Respiratory influences on neurovascular control. Other research projects that are of interest to trainees can often be developed in consultation with Dr. Sheel |
| Silberman | Lior | Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; Analysis on manifolds; Automorphic forms; Group Theory; Homogenous dynamics; Metric geometry; Number theory; Representation Theory; Topology |
Mathematics, almost any field |
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| Sin | Nancy | Psychology and cognitive sciences; stress; Well-being; Adult development and aging; Social Aspects of Aging; Positive Emotions; Sleep; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health behaviours; Lifestyle Determinants and Health | 2025 |
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| Sladen | Douglas | Medical, health and life sciences; cochlear implantation among children and adults | Any time / year round |
Setting up a new virtual reality test environment |
| Sly | Laura | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling | Any time / year round |
Immunometabolism and gut health |
| Somasekharan | Syam | Cancer, n.e.c.; Cell biology, n.e.c.; RNA Biology; Cell Biology; molecular biology; Biomolecular Condensates; Nucleolus; mRNA Translation; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation | 2024, 2025 |
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| Soon | Isaac | Early Christianity and New Testament |
I am open to supervising students in the areas of biblical studies especially as related to disability, gender, and enslavement in early Christian literature. |
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| Speller | Camilla | Anthropology; Archeological Data Analysis; Molecular Genetics; Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics); Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics); Animal Domestication; Bioarchaeology; Environmental Archaeology; Marine Ecosystems | Any time / year round |
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| Srivastava | Diane | Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); community ecology, food webs, tropical conservation, metacommunities, open science, data syntheses, | 2026, 2027 |
Community ecology, food web ecology, metacommunity modelling, data syntheses, open science, metaresearch in relation to equity |
| Stecklov | Guy | Family and household demographic studies; Fertility; Migration; Mortality; Demography; Studies of Canadian society; Demographic behavior; Historical social change; Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Migration and assimilation; Population and Development; Research and survey methodology | 2023 |
My newest research is funded by a five-year SSHRC grant and explores the role of World War 1 in Canada's demographic development in the first half of the 20th Century. It aims to return war and military service to the forefront of research after decades of neglect. This particular research focuses on understanding how war and serving in the military impacted population processes in Canada in... Read More |
| Stefanska | Barbara | Nutrition and Cancer; Breast Cancer; Hepatic Diseases; Gene Regulation and Expression; Epigenetics, Cancer epigenetics, Nutritional epigenomics | Any time / year round |
Epigenetics refers to the molecular events controlling gene expression that are independent of changes in the underlying DNA sequence. These events include DNA methylation, covalent histone modifications, and non-coding RNA-related mechanisms. Epigenetic modifications of DNA, namely DNA methylation, have been shown to contribute to the etiology of chronic diseases with cancer at the forefront... Read More |
| Sunderland | Terence | Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management | 2021, 2022 |
Forests and food security; sustainable landscape management; biodiversity; rural livelihoods and markets; ecosystem services; non-timber forest products |
| Suttle | Curtis | Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses | Any time / year round |
post-doctoral scholars will normally need fellowship support |
| Taubert | Stefan | Other health sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Transcriptomics; Genomics; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription | 2024 |
We study how cells, tissues, and organisms adapt to stresses (hypoxia, oxidative stress, starvation) and how their function is compromised during aging. We investigate these processes and cellular responses because they contribute to or even cause human pathologies, such as cancers, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders. We are especially interested in gene regulation by the... Read More |
| Tessier | Anne-Michelle | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Constraint-based grammars; Phonological acquisition; L2 production and perception in childhood; Lexical avoidance; Phonological theories; Shitgibbons | Any time / year round |
Constraint-based approaches to phonological development Phonological learnability L1 morpho-phonological learning |
| Todd | Rebecca | Cognitive sciences, n.e.c.; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Neurosciences, medical and health and physiological aspects, n.e.c.; Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
Dance improvisation as a laboratory for understanding interactive cognition; Neurophenemonology of mental health/addiction; Active/inhibitory avoidance in major depression |
| Todesco | Marco | Plant biology; Quantitative genetics (including disease and trait mapping genetics); Biological adaptation; Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Genomics; Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics; Paleogenomics; Genetics engineering; Genetic and molecular basis of adaptation; Plant genomics; Chromosomal structural variation; Crop improvement and bioengineering; Wild sunflowers ecology and evolution; Cannabis diversity and domestication | Any time / year round |
Genetic basis of adaptation in wild sunflower species Characterization of adaptation genes/haploblocks Cannabis genetics and genomics Use of wild relatives for crop improvement Development of genomics techniques Wild berries in the PNW
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