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2021 Research Grants Competition - Results by Institution
| Applicant name | Program | Title | EG | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Keith Department Botany |
RGPIN | Alternative Splicing of Duplicated Genes in Polyploid Brassica napus | 1502 | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Altshuler, Douglas Department Zoology |
RGPIN | Physiological and biomechanical mechanisms of animal maneuverability | 1502 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Altshuler, Douglas Department Zoology |
RTI | An advanced surgical microscope for novel studies of sensorimotor integration for flight control | 1602 | 1 | $149,960.00 |
| Ardestanijaafari, Amir Department Head Office |
RGPIN | Adjustable Robust Optimization and its Applications | 1509 | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Beck, Sara Department Civil Engineering |
RGPIN | Pathogen Reduction in Decentralized Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies | 1509 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Benoit, Michael Department Okanagan - Engineering, School of |
RGPIN | Design of novel crack-resistant aluminium alloys for additive manufacturing | 1511 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Beristain, Alexander Department Obstetrics and Gynecology |
RTI | Hypoxia Culture Suite | 1601 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Bichler, Lukas Department Applied Science, Faculty of |
RGPIN | A multi-process approach towards the development of novel Mg alloys | 1511 | 5 | $39,000.00 |
| Black, Alexis Department Audiology and Speech Sciences, School of |
RGPIN | Using machine learning to reveal neural mechanisms of word-learning across development | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Blakney, Anna Department Michael Smith Laboratories |
RGPIN | Determining the Effects of Composition and Microfluidic Fabrication Parameters on Lipid Nanoparticle Structure and Function | 1511 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Borduas-Dedekind, Nadine Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Shining light on the sources, sinks and concentrations of singlet oxygen in the atmosphere | 1504 | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Bostock, Michael Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RGPIN | Seismotectonics of Canada's West Coast | 1506 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Brar, Gurcharn Singh Department Land and Food Systems, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Exploring effectors in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and identifying new sources of host resistance | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Brinkerhoff, Joshua Department Okanagan - Engineering, School of |
RGPIN | Cryogenic Flow Physics to Advance Liquid Hydrogen-Based Aviation | 1512 | 5 | $39,000.00 |
| Burke, Sarah Department Physics and Astronomy |
RTI | Low-temperature Scanning Probe Microscope Controller upgrade for multimodal 2D materials investigation | 1605 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Castellarin, Simone Department Wine Research Centre |
RGPIN | Metabolic responses of the grape (Vitis vinifera L.) berry to environmental stimuli | 1502 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Chau, Kenneth Department Okanagan - Engineering, School of |
RGPIN | Multi-scale computational nanophotonics | 1505 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Chritz, Kendra Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RGPIN | Novel geochemical methods for assessing trophic ecology in modern and ancient ecosystems | 1503 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Chrostowski, Lukas Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Silicon Photonics for Quantum Computing | 1510 | 5 | $76,000.00 |
| Ciernia, Annie Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
RTI | Advanced Expansion Microscopy Imaging System for Brain Microglia | 1601 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Damascelli, Andrea Department Physics and Astronomy |
RTI | Cost-effective continuous operation of the CLS-QMSC Beamline at cryogenic temperatures | 1605 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Dawson, Samantha Department Psychology |
RGPIN | Attentional Mechanisms Underlying Gendered Sexual Response | 1502 | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Day, Susan Department Forest Resources Management |
RGPIN | Making Sense of Urban Soil Heterogeneity for Urban Forest Ecosystem Service Provision in a Changing Climate | 1506 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| de Boer, Carl Department Biomedical Engineering, School of |
RTI | Ultracentrifugation system for purification of synthetic biology constructs | 1602 | 1 | $100,846.00 |
| DiLabio, Gino Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Development of Fast and Accurate Computational Chemistry Methods based on Atom-Centred Potentials and their Application to Crystal Structure Prediction | 1504 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Eberhardt, Erik Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RTI | Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Stress Measurement and Mitigation of High Stress Hazards at Depth | 1609 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Floresco, Stan Department Psychology |
RTI | Imaging neurochemical and neural signalling with fiber photometry | 1602 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Folk, Joshua Department Physics and Astronomy |
RTI | Variable temperature measurement system for quantum devices from strongly correlated and topological materials | 1605 | 1 | $143,117.00 |
| Foster, Johan Department Pulp and Paper Centre |
RTI | Filtration efficiency and breathability testing for permeability mask and filter technologies | 1611 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Foster, Johan Department Chemical and Biological Engineering |
RGPIN | Graphitic carbon from cellulosic materials: development and use | 1511 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Frankel, Adam Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of |
RTI | Biomolecular Imaging System for Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology Applications in Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1602 | 1 | $144,803.00 |
| Gibon, Julien Department Okanagan - Biology |
RGPIN | Signaling mechanisms of the pro Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (proBDNF) and the prodomain BDNF (pBDNF) in neurons | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Gick, Bryan Department Linguistics |
RGPIN | Posture in oromotor control | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Gφrges, Matthias Department Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
RGPIN | A bi-directional data sharing platform for researchers and citizen science | 1509 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Grecov, Dana Department Mechanical Engineering |
RTI | Replacement of a research grade rheometer | 1612 | 1 | $126,097.00 |
| Green, Sheldon Department Mechanical Engineering |
RGPIN | Application of Liquid Coating to a High-speed Moving Surface | 1512 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Hallam, Steven Department Microbiology and Immunology |
RTI | High-throughput nanoscale culture and screening applications for microbiome research | 1601 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Haney, Cara Department Microbiology and Immunology |
RGPIN | Maintaining plant immune homeostasis in the rhizosphere microbiome | 1502 | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Hauert, Christoph Department Mathematics |
RGPIN | Evolving associations: cooperation and conflict within and between species | 1503 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Hein, Jason Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Integrating automated experimentation with process analytical technology | 1504 | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Hill, Jane Department Chemical and Biological Engineering |
RGPIN | Development of next generation of breath collection systems | 1511 | 5 | $39,000.00 |
| Hilts, Michelle Department Okanagan - Mathematics, Statistics and Physics Unit |
RGPIN | The development of advanced imaging and dosimetry for permanent breast seed implant radiation therapy | 1505 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Hobbs, Tiegan Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RGPIN | Identifying potentially active faults in mainland British Columbia using available datasets | 1506 | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Holuszko, Maria Department Mining Engineering |
RGPIN | Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from coal tailings from British Columbia coalfields by nano-flotation | 1511 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Hunt, Michael Department Physical Therapy |
RGPIN | Expanding our ability to assess and modify movement in real-world settings | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Joe, Harry Department Statistics |
RGPIN | Multivariate models and inference | 1508 | 5 | $27,000.00 |
| Johnson, Catherine Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RGPIN | Geophysical Investigations of Mars and Mercury | 1506 | 5 | $95,000.00 |
| Knipfer, Thorsten Department Land and Food Systems, Faculty of |
RGPIN | The sequence of drought-induced physiological and anatomical events in woody perennial crops | 1502 | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Koehle, Michael Department Kinesiology, School of |
RTI | Upgrade to the UBC Environmental Physiology Laboratory to include Ozone Exposure Capacity | 1602 | 1 | $69,283.00 |
| Kramer, John Department Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
RGPIN | The neuroaxis of pain: Peripheral transduction to central integration | 1502 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Kroc, Edward Department Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education |
RGPIN | Essential and incidental measurement error: Bayesian estimation and inference when sample measurements are random-variable-valued | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Larson, Kyle Department Okanagan - Earth & Environmental Sciences and Physical Geography |
RGPIN | Orogen parallel flow in convergent systems | 1506 | 5 | $61,000.00 |
| Leitch, Duncan Department Zoology |
RGPIN | The molecular basis of electroreception across diverse organisms | 1502 | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Liu, Jian Department Okanagan - Applied Science, Faculty of |
RTI | Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry for Online Detection and Quantification of Gas Evolution in Energy Storage and Conversion Systems | 1611 | 1 | $100,231.00 |
| Lorincz, Matthew Department Medical Genetics |
RGPIN | Using PGCLCs as a model system for early germ cell development to characterize the roles of histone marks and their readers in DNA methylation homeostasis and transcriptional regulation | 1501 | 5 | $69,000.00 |
| Mahmoud, Soheil Department Okanagan - Biology |
RGPIN | Regulation of terpenoid metabolism in lavender | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Man, Allison Department Physics and Astronomy |
RGPIN | The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies | 1505 | 5 | $39,000.00 |
| Martone, Patrick Department Botany |
RTI | Microscope Imaging PAM Fluorometer | 1602 | 1 | $90,491.00 |
| McDonald, Daniel Department Statistics |
RGPIN | Regularization and approximation: statistical inference, model selection, and large data | 1508 | 5 | $27,000.00 |
| Mehta, Aastha Department Computer Science |
RGPIN | Mitigating Side-Channel Leaks in Next-Generation Cloud Systems | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Mitchell, Cameron Department Kinesiology, School of |
RGPIN | Understanding the Matrix: Regulation of the Human Muscle Extra Cellular Matrix | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Mizumoto, Kota Department Zoology |
RGPIN | Elucidating the mechanisms of gradient dependent and independent Wnt signaling in neuronal development | 1501 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Mohamadpour Tosarkani, Babak Department Okanagan - Engineering, School of |
RGPIN | Design and optimization of sustainable closed-loop supply chain networks under uncertainty | 1509 | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Montwι, David Department Forest Resources Management |
RGPIN | Resilience of western Canadian forests to climatic extremes | 1503 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Nichols, Eva Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Tuning Peripheral Functionality of Molecular and Interfacial Electrocatalysts to Influence Reaction Pathways | 1504 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Noonan, Michael Department Okanagan - Biology |
RGPIN | Statistically efficient integration of animal tracking data into ecological theory and evidence-based conservation | 1503 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Odic, Darko Department Psychology |
RGPIN | The role of long-term experience in the development and use of the visual number sense | 1502 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Ordonez, Martin Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Flexible Power for Future Zero-Emissions Shipping and Delivery | 1510 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Orsi, Anais Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RGPIN | Towards a better understanding of polar climate variability | 1506 | 5 | $66,000.00 |
| Ortner, Christoph Department Mathematics |
RGPIN | Mathematical Aspects of Atomistic and Multiscale Modelling | 1508 | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Paat, Joseph Department Sauder School of Business |
RGPIN | Dimension reduction techniques for mixed integer programs | 1509 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Pai, Dinesh Department Computer Science |
RTI | High Accuracy Non-Optical Motion Capture | 1607 | 1 | $89,938.00 |
| Parfrey, Laura Department Botany |
RGPIN | Testing the role of microbial distribution and functional traits in the ecology and evolution of symbiosis | 1503 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Parker, Seth Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
RGPIN | Interrogating amino acid transport and organelle exchange | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Picard, Sebastien Department Mathematics |
RGPIN | Nonlinear PDEs in Complex Geometry and Physics | 1508 | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Pranckevicius, Conor Department Okanagan - Chemistry |
RGPIN | Multifunctional Borylenes for Metal- and Boron-Mediated Reactions | 1504 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Protopopova, Alexandra Department Land and Food Systems, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Intra-species variation in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Testing the Pace-of-Life Syndrome hypothesis | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Rauscher, Alexander Department Pediatrics |
RGPIN | Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Anisotropic Biological Tissues | 1505 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Reid, Jolene Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | A Data Science Approach to Organic Reaction Discovery and Development | 1504 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Ryan, Katherine Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Heteroatoms in natural products: Enzymes, pathways, and chemistry | 1504 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Sadiq, Rehan Department Okanagan - Engineering, School of |
RGPIN | `Digital Water' Paving a Way towards Resilient Urban Water Systems | 1509 | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Salfi, Joseph Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RTI | Reactive Ion Etcher for Commercially Relevant Quantum Devices | 1610 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Savalei, Victoria Department Psychology |
RGPIN | Improving Fit Assessment and Incomplete Data Diagnostics in Structural Equation Modeling | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Schafer, Laurel Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Green Chemistry using Early Transition Metal Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Materials | 1504 | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Schluter, Dolph Department Zoology |
RGPIN | Evolution of species interactions in adaptive radiation | 1503 | 5 | $95,000.00 |
| Shahrad, Mohammad Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | From Serverless to Seamless: Building the Next-Generation of Cloud Systems by Eliminating Service Integration and Resource Heterogeneity Limitations | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Stefanska, Barbara Department Land and Food Systems, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Diet and the epigenome: Investigating the impact of the environment on cell biology | 1501 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Sutherland, Dougal Department Computer Science |
RGPIN | Learning Better Representations With Kernels | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Thachuk, Mark Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Theory and Application of Coarse Graining | 1504 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Thorogood, Miles Department Okanagan - Research Services Office |
RGPIN | Echo - A New Set of High-level Audio Features for Computational Sound Design Systems | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Thrampoulidis, Christos Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Fundamentals of Modern Machine Learning: A Precise High-dimensional Approach | 1510 | 5 | $44,000.00 |
| Tokuyama, Maria Department Microbiology and Immunology |
RGPIN | Specialized functions of endogenous retroviruses in innate immune cells | 1501 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Tortell, Philippe Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
RTI | Field-portable volatile trapping system for marine and atmospheric research | 1606 | 1 | $44,734.00 |
| Tu, Qingshi Department Wood Science |
RGPIN | Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment | 1509 | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Uribe, Carlos Department Radiology |
RGPIN | Towards personalized medicine with theranostics: quantitative molecular imaging and artificial intelligence | 1505 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| von Keyserlingk, Marina Department Land and Food Systems, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Mood states in animals, exploring individual and external factors that promote resilience | 1502 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Walji, Nahid Department Mathematics |
RGPIN | Distribution of Hecke eigenvalues for automorphic representations | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Wang, Liwei Department Okanagan - Applied Science, Faculty of |
RTI | Advanced rapid control prototyping testbench for the development of high power converters, battery chargers, mechatronic systems, and AC-DC microgrids | 1610 | 1 | $149,227.00 |
| Wang, Zehua Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Next Generation Secure and Collaborative Internet of Things (IoT) System - Leveraging Blockchain for Decentralized Control and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning | 1510 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Wei, Xiaohua Department Okanagan - Earth & Environmental Sciences and Physical Geography |
RGPIN | Determining forest disturbance thresholds for managing cumulative hydrological impacts | 1506 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Williams, Thomas Department Mathematics |
RGPIN | Classical and A1-homotopy theory of linear algebraic groups | 1508 | 5 | $21,000.00 |
| Wilson, Scott Department Forest and Conservation Sciences |
RGPIN | Spatial and temporal variation in the response of migratory species to anthropogenic land use | 1503 | 5 | $24,900.00 |
| Wolf, Michael Department Chemistry |
RGPIN | Development of Photoactive Materials: Synthesis, Photochemistry and Photophysics | 1504 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Wong, Judy Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Structure-Function Relationship Study of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase's Non-Canonical Activities | 1501 | 5 | $32,000.00 |
| Wood, Frank Department Computer Science |
RTI | UBC ML Computational Cluster | 1607 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Yang, T.Y. Department Civil Engineering |
RGPIN | Smart infrastructures and technologies for sustainable development of resilient megacities | 1509 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Ye, Ziliang Department Physics and Astronomy |
RTI | A Zero-loop Sagnac Interferometer for Probing Spontaneous Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Topological Superconductors | 1605 | 1 | $38,922.00 |