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2015 COMPETITION: LARGE-SCALE RESEARCH PROJECTS -
          NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT- SECTOR CHALLENGES - GENOMIC SOLUTIONS

                                          NUMBER       NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    PROJECT
                                          OF PERSONS   SCIENTISTS   PUBLICATIONS   CONFERENCES   DECLARATIONS   STARTING
                                          EMPLOYED     TRAINED      ACCEPTED     AS SPEAKER   OF INVENTION   DATE
                                                                                              OR PATENTS
                                          2016-2017    2016-2017
                                          (person-years)  (person-years)  2016-2017  2016-2017  2016-2017
                 SÉBASTIEN SAUVÉ - UMONTRÉAL                                                               OCTOBER
              Algal blooms, treatment, risk assessment,   12.78  3.23    1           13            0      2016
            prediction and prevention through genomics
                       NILADRI BASU - MCGILL                                                               OCTOBER
                   Development of a  toxicogenomics    5.53  2.30        0            0            0      2016
                                analysis tool
            BOHLMANN - UBC / BOUSQUET - ULAVAL                                                             OCTOBER
               Spruce-Up (advanced spruce genomics)  4.56  0.49          3            0            0      2016
            HAMELIN - UCOLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE /                                                              OCTOBER
            PORTH - ULAVAL BioSAFE (BioSurveillance   4.92  1.50         0            1            0      2016
                         of Alien Forest Enemies)
              AITKEN - UCOLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE /                                                             OCTOBER
                           HAMELIN - ULAVAL   0.25          0            0            0            0      2016
            CoAdapTree (healthy trees for future climates)
                        WARREN - UTORONTO /
                         BARON - UMONTRÉAL                                                                 OCTOBER
           Next generation biological treatment of mining   0.30  0      -            -            0      2016
                                waste-waters
             HUBERT - UCALGARY / GREER - MCGILL                                                            OCTOBER
            Microbial genomics for oil spill preparedness   0.11  0      0            0            0      2016
                in Canada’s Arctic marine environment
                        MASTER - UTORONTO /                                                                JANUARY
                        TSANG - UCONCORDIA              Start of the project: no data available           2017
            SYNBIOMICS (advanced biopolymer synthesis)
                                TOTAL        28.45         7.52          4           14            0





         2015 BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COMPETITION

                                         NUMBER       NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    NUMBER OF    PROJECT
                                         OF PERSONS   SCIENTISTS   PUBLICATIONS   CONFERENCES   DECLARATIONS   STARTING
                                         EMPLOYED     TRAINED      ACCEPTED     AS SPEAKER   OF INVENTION   DATE
                                                                                             OR PATENTS
                                         2016-2017    2016-2017
                                         (person-years)  (person-years)  2016-2017  2016-2017  2016-2017
                 FRANÇOIS MAJOR - UMONTRÉAL                                                               OCTOBER
                      Development of RNAi-based                                                           2016
                           therapeutics agents
                  JESSE SHAPIRO - UMONTRÉAL
                  Toolkit for genome-wide association                                                     OCTOBER
                            studies in bacteria            Data available in October 2017                 2016
                 JÉRÔME WALDISPÜHL - MCGILL
                  Identification of small RNA-binding                                                     OCTOBER
                molecules regulating gene expression                                                      2016
                 JÉRÔME WALDISPÜHL - MCGILL                                                               OCTOBER
                  Crowdsourcing genomic databases                                                         2016
                               TOTAL           -            -            -            -            -





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