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Fall 2016

Mojiri, Anahita

Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) is a pro-coagulant, glycosylated protein that is exclusively expressed in endothelial cells and megakaryocytes. An acute phase protein, VWF is upregulated or released from activated or injured endothelial cells. In addition, it is a carrier for factor VIII that...

Fall 2023

Escobar Gil, Claudia

Tan spot, caused by the necrotrophic fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is a foliar disease of hexaploid and tetraploid wheat (Triticum aestivum and T. turgidum, respectively) that can cause significant yield and quality losses. Disease development involves the differential production of...

Spring 2010

kumari, manjeet

Aluminum (Al)stress is a major limitation to crop productivity on acidic soils. To help understand the cellular mechanisms underlying the toxicity and resistance of plants to Al, this thesis involved a large-scale, transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of roots of Arabidopsis thaliana and reports...

Spring 2021

Normington, Louisa Charlotte

In western Canada alone, the current mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak has devastated nearly 19 million hectares of pine forest, negatively impacting communities, industries and ecosystems. Reforestation efforts can benefit from a deeper understanding of the impact of nitrogen (N)-based...

Fall 2021

Pollock, Niall MH

The work presented in this thesis is split between two projects. The first utilises prp1 and prp2 knockout zebrafish to investigate physiological functions of the cellular prion protein (PrPC). The second builds upon the use of zebrafish as a model for hearing loss to confirm a role of toll-like...

Spring 2016

Liang, Guanxiang

Maintenance of the gut health of calves is vital because enteric infections are associated with high mortality during the pre-weaned period. The small intestine is the primary site of many enteric infections and plays an important role in protecting the host from pathogenic infection through both...

Fall 2020

Summanwar, Aarohi

Canola provides ~15% of the total global vegetable oil supply and is an important crop contributing about $26.7 billion to Canada’s economy. Canola production has been threatened by clubroot disease caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin, which in extreme case can result complete crop...

Spring 2024

Zaitseva-Herz, Olga

This study investigates the degree of multimodal hybridity observed in the collection of Ukrainian-Canadian vernacular songs. It is grounded in the compilation of songs assembled by Robert Klymasz during his field research in the 1960s, conducted among Ukrainian immigrants residing on the...

1990

Finlay, Lucinda Lee.

Spring 2019

Butt, Mehwish

Design and engineering design process are necessary components of engineering education. They teach early stage engineering undergraduates about the temporal and organizational nature of the design process and give them the first exposure to the nature of engineering design and its different...