Forty-one projects at UBC supported as part of $96-million national investment.
The Government of Canada, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation, announced a $96-million investment in research infrastructure across Canada through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). This includes $10.61M for 41 state-of-the-art labs and equipment at the University of British Columbia.
CFI’s investment supports 377 new research infrastructure projects at 55 institutions Canada-wide. The investment includes more than $22M under their Infrastructure Operating Fund.
(August 18, 2020)
UBC projects
Establishment of the Mucin Glycobiology Laboratory at UBC
Kirk Bergstrom, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Okanagan
$154,000
Reactor for Atmospheric Chemical Transformations (ReACTr) to Track the Fate of Outdoor and Indoor Air Molecules
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, Science
$191,000
High-performance Atomic Force Microscopy to Elucidate Structure-property Relationships in Nanocellulose Materials
Emily Cranston, Applied Science, Forestry
$240,000
Deciphering DNA-encoded Gene-regulatory Logic with Genome-scale Synthetic DNA
Carl de Boer, Applied Science, Medicine
$125,000
Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy to Study Food Proteins and Enzymes
Derek Dee, Land and Food Systems
$125,000
Nanospectroscopy Laboratory for Polaritonic Materials Discovery
Steven Dierker, Science
$800,000
High Resolution Automated Mineralogy for Carbon Mineralization
Gregory Dipple, Science
$800,000
Center for Transportation and Land Use Research (CeTLUR)
Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi, Applied Science, Okanagan
$106,729
Biodiversity in a Changing World: Linking Theory and Experiments Across Scales
Rachel Germain, Science
$125,000
BioFactorial: Enabling High-throughput Applications for Systems Biology and Enzyme Discovery
Steven Hallam, Science
$175,000
Complex Human-based Organ (Disease) Models for Basic and Preclinical Research with a Focus on Human Epithelia
Sarah Hedtrich, Pharmaceutical Sciences
$101,408
Infrastructure to Advance Extracellular Vesicle Biology & Technology
Mina Hoorfar, Applied Science, Okanagan
$800,000
Infrastructure for Developing Pharmacologic Approaches to Modulating Fibrinolysis and Controlling Bleeding Disorders
Christian Kastrup, Applied Science, Medicine
$78,000
Stem Cell and Genome Editing Lab
Timothy Kieffer, Medicine
$439,603
Integrated Greenhouse Gas Research and Observations in Wetlands (iGROW)
Sara Knox, Arts
$125,000
Working to Restore Connectivity and Sustainability (WoRCS) research program
Claire Kremen, Science
$400,000
Community Hub for Arts-based Research and Innovation in Knowledge Translation
Andrea Krusi, Medicine
$77,352
Exploring Mitochondria Function as Therapeutic Target in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
Florian Kuchenbauer, Medicine
$125,000
Electron Microscope for Imaging Soft Materials
Mark MacLachlan, Science
$800,000
Predicting Impacts of Cumulative Threats to Inform Conservation Decisions Under Global Change
Tara Martin, Forestry
$125,000
The Neurobiology and Genetics of Taste in Disease-vectoring Mosquitoes
Benjamin Matthews, Science
$192,850
Enabling Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Calibration, Monitoring, and Characterization of the LIGO Detectors
Jessica McIver, Science
$220,000
Exercise, Nutrition and Muscle Metabolism Laboratory
Cameron Mitchell, Education
$125,000
(Re)Media Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure and Program
Emily Murphy, Creative and Critical Studies, Okanagan
$122,165
Hapscreen-RD: A Platform for Large-scale Screening of Human Haploid Cells for Rare Disease Research
Josef Penninger, Medicine
$777,128
Innovation in Mobility and Balance Rehabilitation
Courtney Pollock, Medicine
$125,000
Laboratory for Human-animal Interaction and Companion Animal Welfare
Alexandra Protopopova, Land and Food Systems
$125,300
Centre for Community Engaged Documentation and Research
Daisy Rosenblum, Arts
$277,477
Microbial Biosynthesis of Natural Products
Katherine Ryan, Science
$168,000
The Stroke Management and eHealth Innovation Laboratory
Brodie Sakakibara, Medicine, Okanagan
$85,534
Plant-pollinator and Global Change Lab
Risa Sargent, Land and Food Systems
$123,454
Field and Laboratory Characterization of the Climate and Landscape Response to Surface Elevation Change
Joel Saylor, Science
$125,000
Facilities for the Geospatial Ecology of Landscapes Laboratory
Naomi Schwartz, Arts
$125,000
VELOSITY: Bringing the Benefits of VLSI to System Software
Margo Seltzer, Science
$453,594
The Origins of Patterns in Speech Lab
Marton Soskuthy, Arts
$116,900
Establishing an Ancient DNA and Protein (ADαPT) Facility at UBC
Camilla Speller, Arts
$125,000
Cryo-EM of Metabolic Enzymes for Drug Discovery
Sriram Subramaniam, Medicine
$800,000
Solution-processed Thin Film Semiconductors for Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Applications
Alexander R. Uhl, Applied Science, Okanagan
$160,000
Investigating How Mitochondrial Stress Signaling Maintains Organelle Homeostasis in Health and Disease
Hilla Weidberg, Medicine
$125,000
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Janet Werker, Arts
$199,969
(Funding for Research Infrastructure Associated with SSHRC Research Support)
Investigating the Neurophysiological Effects and Accumulation of Subconcussive Sports Head Impacts
Lyndia Chun Wu, Applied Science, Medicine
$125,000