Banting Postdoctoral Researchers 2019–2020

CIHR

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Abdullahi, Abdikarim Photo courtesy of Tiffany Ma	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Metabolism/Diabetes	Turning White Fat into Energy-burning Brown Fat: New hope in the fight against Obesity.
Balasco Serrão, Vitor Hugo	University of Toronto	Biochemistry	Human fertilization: understanding the molecular role between Izumo1, Juno and CD9
Bhawra, Jasmin	University of Saskatchewan	Environmental Influences on Health	An innovative mHealth platform for monitoring and responding to food insecurity and mental health impacts of climate change in the Canadian North
Bin, Na Ryum	Harvard Medical School	Nervous System	Neural Basis of Sickness Behaviour
Bixby, Honor	McGill University	Population Health	Comprehensive analysis of health inequalities in global cities
Burrows, Kyle	University of Toronto	Immunology-Transplantation	Alterations in pulmonary pathogenesis by a protozoan stimulated gut-lung axis
Cagnetta, Roberta	McGill University	Nervous System	Role and regulatory mechanisms of pre- versus post-synaptic mRNA translation in memory formation and retrieval within glutamatergic neurons of an intact neural circuit
Eldeeb, Mohamed	McGill University	Biochemistry	Structure of human PINK1-TOM complex by single-particle cryo-EM
Fitzpatrick, Tiffany	Yale University	Population Health	Understanding spatial and population mixing variations in the transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to inform RSV vaccine delivery strategies which optimize population-level vaccine and reduce disparities: development and validation of a transmission (simulation) model, using administrative health data and cutting-edge spatio-temporal Bayesian method
Hategeka, Celestin Photo courtesy of Marthe Hategeka	Harvard School of Public Health (Massachusetts)	Health Services Research	Improving Health System Quality Through Better Measurement and Service Delivery Redesign
Hooda, Yogesh	Medical Research Council (UK)	Cell Biology	Mechanisms for assembly of membrane protein complexes in the endoplasmic reticulum
Hysi, Eno	Unity Health Toronto	Renal Function, Nephrology, Urology	Photoacoustic imaging of kidney fibrosis: A tool for assessing pre-transplant organ quality
Knowles, Nikolas Photo courtesy of Don Molyneaux	University of Calgary	Muscle, Bone or Joint	Elucidating early bone alterations following acute rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament contributing to the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis
Labrecque, Jeremy	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (The Netherlands)	Health Research	Determining the effectiveness of changes in health behaviours for reducing the risk of breast cancer in women at higher genetic risk: the TAIGA-BC study
Latreille, Véronique	McGill University	Psychosocial/Health Behavioural Res.	Stimulating the sleeping brain to improve memory
Laumont, Céline Photo courtesy of Alexandra McDonald	The University of British Columbia	Cancer	B cell-mediated immunity in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
McCloskey, Curtis Photo courtesy of Dr. Virginie Defamie	University Health Network (Toronto)	Cancer	Phenogenomic profiling of the high-risk human breast
Michaels, Jonathan	The University of Western Ontario	Nervous System	Understanding how sensory information contributes to reach control
Michaels, Yale Photo courtesy of Shane Marmel	The University of British Columbia	Molecular Biology	Engineering pluripotent stem cells to provide a renewable source of T-cells for immunotherapy
MohammadiAzad, MohammadTaha Photo courtesy of Mina Ghahremani	Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	Cancer	Combined oncolytic virotherapy and Hippo signaling targeting for cancer treatment
Saez, Tamara	University of Alberta	Cardiovascular	Vascular mechanisms for the long-term effect of the pregnancy disorder preeclampsia on the maternal risk of cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis later in life
Sultana, Tania	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (Toronto)	Genetics	Dissecting the mechanisms and long-term impact of activation of transposons by gestational stress
Wallace, Lindsay	University of Cambridge	Aging	Untangling the relationship ageing, frailty, and dementia.
Zeraatkar, Dena	Harvard Medical School	Environmental Influences on Health	Analytic methods to identify important relationships between environmental exposures and health outcomes using epidemiologic and other large-scale observational data

NSERC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Benz, Susanne	Dalhousie University	Earth Sciences - Earth Science	Climate Change in the Subsurface – Future Scenarios for Geothermal Potential, Groundwater Quality, Permafrost Thaw and Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems
Bruce, Chris Photo courtesy of Anna Duwenig	Queen Mary University of London	Mathematical Sciences - Pure Mathematics	Number theory, semigroups, and operator algebras
Dagdeviren, Omur	McGill University	Physics and Astronomy - Condensed Matter Physics	Revealing the Exciton Dynamics and Challenging the Existence of Trapped-Excitons
dos Passos Gomes, Gabriel	University of Toronto	Chemistry - Organic Chemistry	Designing Catalysts with Artificial Intelligence
Gallaugher, Michael	McMaster University	Mathematical Sciences - Statistics And Probability	Topics in Clustering and Classification
Grégoire, Daniel Photo courtesy of Mitacs	University of Waterloo	Evolution and Ecology - Microbial Ecology	Digging Deep Into Dioxane Biodegradation
Guo, Fumin	University of Toronto	Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Science Engineering - Biomedical Engineering	Integration of multi-modality MRI to improve ventricular tachycardia management and patient outcomes
Huberman, Samuel	Université de Montréal	Computing Sciences - Artificial Intelligence	Machine Learning Solutions to the Problems of Scaling and Representation in Automated Material Discovery
Jones, Eric	Simon Fraser University	Cellular and Molecular Biology - Biophysics	Ecological control theory in the microbiome
Kasimatis, Katja	University of Toronto	Evolution and Ecology - Evolution and Ecology	Genomic Resolution of Sexual Conflict: Dynamic Evolution of Modifiers of Dominance
Keinath, Alexandra	McGill University	Psychology - Behavioural Neuroscience	A causal test of the hippocampal circuits mediating pattern completion
Kumar, Ritu	University of Waterloo	Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Science Engineering - Materials Science and Technology	Augmenting hydrogen production efficiency using porous 2D heterostructured electrocatalysts
Leclerc, Martin	Université Laval	Evolution and Ecology - Animal Ecology	Migration et prédation dans un système herbivore-omnivore-carnivore
Mackereth, John Photo courtesy of Laura Mackereth	University of Toronto	Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics	Blueprints for galaxy assembly using simulations and observations of the Milky Way and its connection to the galaxy population, near and far
McDonough, Evan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Physics and Astronomy - Physics	Cosmological Complementarity and the Dark Universe
Meanwell, Michael Photo courtesy of Dimitrios Panagopoulos	The Scripps Research Institute	Chemistry - Organic Chemistry	Late-stage borylation of unactivated C-H (sp3) bonds: establishing a platform for rapid drug-lead diversification and PET imaging
Narayan, Abhishek	University of Alberta	Cellular and Molecular Biology - Biophysics	Effects of familial ALS mutations on the misfolding mechanisms of SOD1 studied at the single-molecule level
Peers, Michael	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Evolution and Ecology - Evolution and Ecology	Keeping pace with a changing world: assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change
Rudman, Seth Photo courtesy of Georgina Cox	University of Guelph	Evolution and Ecology - Evolution and Ecology	Assessing the predictability and ecological effects of rapid evolution of Daphnia in response to harmful algal blooms
Silber, Reynold	Yale University	Earth Sciences - Geophysics	Effects of high pressure on diffusion creep in olivine: Geophysical implications for observed seismic anisotropy and shear localization
Skierszkan, Elliott	University of Saskatchewan	Earth Sciences - Geochemistry and Geochronology	Indirect effects of climate change on water security: Uranium contamination of water resources in subarctic regions
Speagle, Joshua Photo courtesy of Sebastian Gomez	University of Toronto	Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics	Building an Integrated Model of the Stars, Dust, and Gas in the Milky Way
Tulloch-McShane, Vivitskaia	The University of British Columbia	Evolution and Ecology - Wildlife Management	Ecosystem-based models to inform tactical management: new solutions to prevent decline of threatened and endangered resident killer whales in multiple-use areas

SSHRC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Angus, Siobhan	Yale University	Fine Arts	Photography in deep-time: Materiality, resource extraction, and climate change
Beauvais, Edana	Duke University	Political Science	White Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective: Canada and the United States
Bradette, Marie-Eve	University of Regina	Literature, Modern Languages and	Reclaiming Truth, Agency, and Affectivity through Writing: Reading the Trauma Legacy in Indigenous Women's Residential School Literatures
Brisson, Pierre-Luc Photo courtesy of Clément Salviani	McGill University	History	Fear: A Study on the Impacts of International Unipolarity on Rome's Decision-Making Process in the Second Century BCE (200-146 BCE), and the Role of Fear as a Political and Social Construct Within Roman Public Opinion.
Brun del Re, Ariane Photo courtesy of Vincent Kember	Université de Montréal	Literature, Modern Languages and	« L’inscription de la francophonie canadienne dans la littérature québécoise récente (2005-2020) »
Eke, Surulola	Queen's University	Political Science	Resource Scarcity, Exclusionary Politics and the Spatial Variation of Autochthonous Conflicts in Ghanaian and Nigerian Cities
Farrell, Ann	University of Ottawa	Psychology	A Longitudinal Developmental Examination of Childhood Bullying as a Precursor to Aggression and Victimization across the Lifespan
Guntermann, Eric	University of California - Berkeley	Political Science	How Big of a Challenge Are Far-Right Parties to Democracy? Using Panel Studies to Assess the Influence of Far-Right Parties on Citizens' Political Attitudes
Hussain, Salman	York University	Anthropology	Hijra Human Rights and Legal Recognition in Pakistan: Gender Justice, ‘Third Gender’ and Embodied Identity
Johnston, Patricia Photo courtesy of Jonathan Luedee	University of Washington	Social Work	Inuit child and family wellbeing: Exploring an Inuit approach to child welfare through a community-based participatory research in Arviat, Nunavut
Lavoie, Bertrand Photo courtesy of Manoucheka L	McGill University	Interdisciplinary Studies	L'éthique en contexte de diversité des valeurs religieuses : recherche collaborative avec une unité d'éthique clinique dans un hôpital pédiatrique québécois
Letham, Bryn	Simon Fraser University	Archaeology	Bridging the Past and the Present on the Pacific Coast of North America: Archaeology, Geology, and Indigenous History of Gitga'at Cultural Keystone Places
Mamontova, Nadezhda	University of Northern British Columbia	Geography	Vernacular Geography and Indigenous Participatory Mapping in Soviet Russia: Examining the Legacy of Glafira Vasilevich’s Cartographic Project
McDowell, Graham Photo courtesy of Dr. Vaibhav Kaul	University of Zurich	Geography	Limits to climate change adaptation in mountain regions: A new research frontier
Moritz, Sarah	Concordia University	Anthropology	Honouring Salmon: Relational Ecologies across Salish Worlds in the Pacific Northwest
Ross, Sara	Dalhousie University	Law	Potent Spaces of Cultural Heritage, Heritage Dissonance, and Overlapping Heritage Interests in the City: Localizing UNESCO’s “Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape” for Stakeholder Balancing and Managing Marginalized Property, Heritage, and Displacement in Halifax
Sawchuk, Elizabeth	University of Alberta	Archaeology	Health and herding around Lake Turkana, Kenya: archaeological perspectives on climate change, mobile pastoralism, and resilience in eastern Africa
Sokolowski, Helen Moriah	Baycrest Hospital	Psychology	Understanding occupational success: An investigation of the cognitive and neural factors that predict career success in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM).
Sondarjee, Maïka	Université de Montréal	Sociology	Les pratiques d’empowerment des femmes et l’expansion de leur citoyenneté Le cas de l’Association Munyu au Burkina Faso
Suarez, Carla	Graduate Institute Geneva	Political Science	‘Putting down the gun and returning home’: The role of social ties in peacebuilding
Watts, Galen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Sociology	The Spiritual Turn at Work: Self-Realization, Self-Expression, and Self-Authority in the Twenty-First Century Workplace
Wiseman, Matthew	St. Jerome's University (Waterloo)	History	Curiosity and Resolve: A Gender-Based Analysis of the National Research Council and the History of Women Scientists in Canada, 1920–2020
Wyman, Joshua	University of Ontario Institute of Technology	Criminology	Examining the needs of victims, bystanders, law enforcement and health professionals for increasing disclosures of elder maltreatment.

Date modified:

2020-09-03