BCDRN Newsletter: Spring 2024
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Name | Role | Research Interests |
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Allan, Douglas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nervous system |
Beauchamp, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; social determinants of health; Health Promotion; Quality of Life and Aging; Mental Health and Society; Children; Exercise Psychology; Group Processes; Health Psychology; Intervention; Leadership; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Social Cognition; Sport Psychology |
Boushel, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology |
Bundon, Andrea | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; Social Contexts; critical disability studies; disability; Paralympics; social media; sociology; sport |
Campbell, Kristin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical oncology; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Biomarkers; Breast Cancer; Exercise Physiology; oncology; physical function; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; rehabilitation |
Carpenter, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; food and nutrition policy; Gender Epidemiology; gender and health equity; Health Policies; healthcare quality improvement; healthy ageing; Indigenous health; Obesity; obesity & CVD risk factors; Professional Practices; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; ethics of research and public health |
Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
Dutz, Jan Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunity in Health & Disease, diabetes, dermatology |
Francis, Gordon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | lipoproteins; Cholesterol metabolism; Cardiovascular risk factors; Prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes; High density lipoproteins (HDL) |
Gibson, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Genetic Diseases; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; Epigenetics |
Gill, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant patients; Access to kidney transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Cardiovascular risk in transplant patients |
Hayden, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders |
Hoffman, Bradford | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Understanding how the genes critical to endocrine pancreas development, as well as ?-cell function and proliferation are regulated is essential for the development of novel strategies for the production of insulin-secreting cells, and for improving the efficacy of available transplantable material. |
Hoppmann, Christiane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Social Aspects of Aging; stress; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health and well-being across the adult lifespan and into old age; individual differences in goals |
Horwitz, Marc | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mechanisms of viral-induced immune disease in a variety of complex chronic disorders |
Jan, Eric | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Virus; Nucleic Acids; Proteomics; Antiviral innate immunity; Zika; coxsackievirus; enterovirus; Innate immunity; molecular biology; picornavirus; protease; Protein synthesis; RNA; RNA structure function; RNA virus; ribosome; SARS; tRNA; translation; Virology; virus host interactions; mRNA therapeutics |
Johnson, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | diabetes, hormones, cell biology, signal transduction, apoptosis or programmed cell death, heart failure, heart disease, calcium signalling, pancreatic cancer, obesity, longevity, imaging, Causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes at a molecular level discovery of genes and associated gene networks linked to diabetes risk and by known risk factors that predispose individuals to diabetes |
Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation |
Khan, Nadia Ahmed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ethnic and gender differences in chronic disease incidence and outcomes; Chronic disease prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; Hypertension outcomes research |
Kieffer, Tim | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes |
Kopp, Janel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Modeling cancer; Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development |
Laher, Ismail | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Cardiovascular diseases; animal models of sleep apnea; Diabetes; exercise; oxidative stress; regulation of small artery tone, mechanisms of pressuce-induced vasomotor responses, exercise, sleep |
Levin, Adeera | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hypertension/Renal Transplantation; Medical Education; Outcome/Evaluation Method Applied to Renal Patients |
Levings, Megan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Cell therapy; Immune tolerance; Transplantation; Autoimmunity; Gene Therapy; Regulatory T cells |
Loewen, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Membranes and Organelles; Lipid Signalling; Lipid Traffic; Membrane Contact Sites; Genetic Networks; Systems Biology; Super Resolution Microscopy; Cell polarity; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Golgi; Membrane Diffusion Barriers; Cell Biology; Autism; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Cancer Cell Metabolism |
Luciani, Dan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cell metabolism; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Organelle function; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Diabetes; Pancreatic beta-cell function and failure; Mitochondrial physiology; Lysosomal physiology; Cell calcium signalling; Cell stress signalling; Mechanisms of cell death; autophagy; Cellular senescence; fluorescence microscopy |
Lynn, Francis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes; ß-cell development; ß-cell biology; Human pluripotent stem cells; CRISPR/Cas; transcriptional regulation |
Madden, Kenneth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Geriatrics and gerontology; Exercise interventions; Sedentary Behaviour; Syncope; Falls Prevention; Sarcopenia; Machine Learning |
Masse, Louise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity |
Meneilly, Graydon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism in the elderly |
Mui, Alice | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Inflammatory Signalling Pathways |
Murphy, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical oncology; Health sciences; Human nutrition and dietetics; Public and population health; Aging; Cancer prevention; Community Health / Public Health; Nutrition; Nutrition and Cancer; Obesity |
Norman, Moss | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; Community and public health; Critical weight studies; Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology; Indigenous physical cultures; Masculinities; Socio-Cultural Studies |
Osborne, Lisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | influence that the bacteria that live on and in our intestines, lungs and skin have on human health; understanding how the host recognizes the diverse species that reside in the gut - from microscopic viruses to large, multicellular helminthic worms - and tailors an immune response of the appropriate scope and magnitude necessary to achieve homeostasis |
Piret, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical engineering, regenerative medicine Cell-based therapies have the potential to provide improved treatments for major diseases such as cancer and diabetes |
Puterman, Eli | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres |
Rideout, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sex differences; Metabolism; Cell Signaling Pathways; Development; Lifespan and Aging; Stress responses; Drosophila melanogaster |
Rodrigues, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Diabetes; Cardiomyopathy; Heart Failure; Energy Metabolism; Cardiovascular metabolism; Endothelial cell - cardiomyocyte crosstalk; Vascular Endothelial Growth factors |
Soma, Kiran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress |
Tang, Tricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes; Behavioral and Psychosocial Issues associated with Diabetes Self-management. |
Taubert, Stefan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
Ur, Ehud | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes; Lipids; Obesity; Pituitary/Neuroendocrine |
Verchere, Bruce | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes research, pediatrics, Beta cell survival and function |
Voss, Christine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatrics; Physical Activity; Children and youth; Health behaviours; Diabetes; congenital heart disease |
Wang Kazun, Siyun | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Food sciences (including food engineering); Agri-food Transformation Products; Microbiology; Bioactive Molecules; Food microbiology; Food safety |
Yada, Rickey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Other biological sciences; Food science; Food protein chemistry; Structure-function relationships; Enzymes; aspartic proteases |
Yip, Calvin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genetic Diseases; Enzymes and Proteins; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Molecular Structure and Sizing; Imaging; Chromatin modification / epigenetic regulation; Molecular etiologies of rare diseases; Regulation of autophagy degradation |
Yong, Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | pelvic pain, with a particular interest in endometriosis, painful periods, sexual pain, co-existing bladder and bowel problems, and pain related to the musculoskeletal system; laparoscopic excision of complex endometriosis and prevention of adhesions in women with endometriosis and pelvic pain and infertility |