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Competition Results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program 2011
NSERC is pleased to announce the 2011 competition results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program (DAS).
The DAS Program aims to provide substantial and timely additional resources to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research programs. In 2011, NSERC awarded $14.76 million to 123 applications in the DAS competition. These supplements are valued at $120,000 over three years.
The winners are listed below:
| Researcher | Research Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Abdel-Rahman, Eihab | Nonlinear micro-electro-mechanical sensors and actuators | Waterloo |
| Abou Elela, Sherif | Biochemical and genetic characterization of ribosome biogenesis and functional diversity | Sherbrooke |
| Ali, Declan | Synaptic maturation and development of membrane excitability in zebrafish | Alberta |
| Apostolov, Vestislav | Special metrics in classical and generalized Kaehler geometry | Québec à Montréal |
| Ardakani, Masoud | Novel channel coding techniques under practical assumptions | Alberta |
| Bakr, Mohamed | Efficient modeling and design optimization of computationally intensive high frequency structures | McMaster |
| Barker, Philip | Using drosophila to discern cell death signaling pathways | McGill |
| Beauchemin, André | Synthesis of nitrogen-containing molecules using bifunctional reagents and organocatalysts | Ottawa |
| Berbee, Mary | Becoming a fungus: comparative phylogenomic studies of evolution of hyphal growth and absorptive nutrition in fungi | British Columbia |
| Berini, Pierre | Active surface plasmon devices | Ottawa |
| Bhuiyan, Farina Nadia | Lean product development | Concordia |
| Bostock, Michael | Physical state of the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the blind deconvolution problem in global seismology | British Columbia |
| Boumaiza, Slim | Energy-Efficient adaptive transmitters for 4G wireless radio systems: New Design Paradigm and Enabling Techniques | Waterloo |
| Brenan, James | Experimental constraints on the behaviour of highly siderophile elements during planetary differentiation | Toronto |
| Burrus, Vincent | setCDQR regulon of the integrating and conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family: a genetic and molecular study / Étude génétique et moléculaire du régulon setCDR des ICE SXT/R391 | Sherbrooke |
| Caldwell, Michael | Vertebrate paleontology of terrestrial and marine squamates: testing the relationships of lepidosauria within sauropsida | Alberta |
| Campbell, Kevin | Molecular evolution and structure-function relationships of gene products from extinct and extant mammalian species | Manitoba |
| Campbell, Malcolm | Comparative functional genomics of plant resource acquisition, perception & allocation | Toronto |
| Chan Carusone, Anthony | Energy-efficient I/O for supercomputing | Toronto |
| Chen, Daolun | Fatigue and deformation aspects of lightweight materials | Ryerson |
| Culham, Jody | Behavioral and neuroimaging investigation of objects in the real world | Western Ontario |
| Dalai, Ajay | Applied energy research for green diesel production and glycerol utilization | Saskatchewan |
| Dalnoki-Veress, Kari | Soft-materials at surfaces and interfaces | McMaster |
| Dehne, Frank | Auto-tuned parallel algorithms for hybrid multi-core/many-core processor clusters | Carleton |
| Déry, Stephen | Climate change and the water towers of western Canada | Northern British Columbia |
| Desveaux, Darrell | Defining the molecular plant-pathogen interface | Toronto |
| Devillers, Rodolphe | Designing methods for evaluationg and communicating the quality of volunteered geographic information | Memorial Univ. of Nfld |
| Donaldson, Logan | Molecular architecture in gene expression and virus-host interactions | York |
| Doucet, Arnaud | Advanced monte carlo methods for bayesian computation | British Columbia |
| Drysdale, Thomas | The molecular basis of thyroid and lung development | Western Ontario |
| Eaton, David | The subcontinental lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary | Calgary |
| El-Dakhakhni, Wael | System-level seismic performance evaluation of reinforced masonry buildings | McMaster |
| Elliott, Janet | Interfacial thermodynamics and kinetics | Alberta |
| Fam, Amir | Concrete bridge components using stay-in-place structural forms for rapid construction | Queen's |
| Folk, Joshua | Quantum devices: engineering electronic coherence in nanostructures | British Columbia |
| Fudge, Douglas | Comparative biophysics of intermediate filament based materials | Guelph |
| Gamperl, Anthony | Environmental influences on fish cardiovascular function and control | Memorial Univ. of Nfld |
| Gauthier, Gilles | Population dynamics and trophic interactions in arctic birds and mammals | Laval |
| Gélinas, Yves | Organic matter dynamics in aquatic environments using bulk, molecular and isotopic methods | Concordia |
| German, Daniel | Source code licensing as an essential aspect of modern software development | Victoria |
| Gyenge, Elod | Direct borohydride-air fuel cells and batteries: toward non-precious metal catalysts and regenerative systems | British Columbia |
| Harris, Tony | The regulation of epithelial tissue structure in Drosophila | Toronto |
| Hefeeda, Mohamed | Mobile 3D multimedia streaming | Simon Fraser |
| Hertzmann, Aaron | Modeling human locomotion control | Toronto |
| Hirasawa, Michiru | Plasticity of spontaneous synaptic transmission in the hypothalamus | Memorial Univ. of Nfld |
| Hoey, Jesse | Machine learning, dense sensing and decision theoretic planning for large-scale assistance systems | Waterloo |
| Hungr, Oldrich | Development of methods and tools for landslide hazard and risk assessment | British Columbia |
| Jenna, Sarah | Rho GTPase regulation during caenorhabditis elegans embryonic elongation | Québec à Montréal |
| Joanisse, Marc | The cognitive and neural bases of letter and sound knowledge in reading | Western Ontario |
| Kanungo, Rituparna | Towards a new global view of nuclear structure and nuclear matter through nuclei with large neutron to proton ratio | Saint Mary's |
| Kemme, Bettina | Data management in the cloud | McGill |
| Kontopoulou, Marianna | Synthesis and characterization of electrically conductive polyolefin nanocomposites | Queen's |
| Krylov, Sergey | Novel analytical approaches for biology and medicine | York |
| Kuru, Ergun | A comprehensive study of near-wall turbulence for developing effective hole cleaning strategies | Alberta |
| Kutulakos, Kiriakos | Foundations of computational photography and videography | Toronto |
| Lehner, Luis | Gravitational and electromagnetic signals from compact binaries | Guelph |
| Lesage, Frédéric | Multimodal optical imaging investigation of neuronal, metabolic and vascular correlates of aging | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Lewis, Mark | Spatial dynamics in ecology | Alberta |
| Leys, Sally | Evolutionary origins of coordination: physiological and molecular studies on sponges (Porifera) | Alberta |
| Leznoff, Daniel | New frontiers in coordination chemistry: designing molecules and coordination polymer materials with novel properties | Simon Fraser |
| Li, Baochun | Thrift: optimizing performance in complex mobile internet applications with network coding | Toronto |
| Litvak, Alexander | Asynmptotic geometric analysis, random matrices and related topics | Alberta |
| Mahadevan, Radhakrishnan | Multi-scale genome-based modeling of human metabolism for diagnostic and therapeutic applications | Toronto |
| Masson, Jean-François | Nano- and micro-plasmonics; towards scanning probe SPR microscopy and plasmonic sensors integrated to multi-well plate readers | Montréal |
| Matthews, Brenda | Understanding planet formation with ALMA and EVLA | Victoria |
| McPhee, John | Multibody dynamics, simulation, and parameter identification of 3D biomechanical systems | Waterloo |
| Michaud, François | Integration of high-level cognitive functions in an autonomous robot control architecture | Sherbrooke |
| Mondloch, Catherine | The nature and development of expert face perception | Brock |
| Nave, Jean-Christophe | Interface tracking methods and gradient-augmented algorithms: theory and applications | McGill |
| Nazhat, Showan | Hybridized dense nano-fibrillar collagen gels as tissue models and scaffolds | McGill |
| Norris, Ryan | Population dynamics of migratory animals: integrating theory and data | Guelph |
| Oberman, Adam | Numerical methods for fully nonlinear and degenerate elliptic partial differential equations | Simon Fraser |
| O'Carroll, Denis | Mobility of engineered nanoparticles in the subsurface with particular focus on the partially saturated zone | Western Ontario |
| Page, John | Mesoscopic wave physics and complex materials | Manitoba |
| Panté, Nelly | Using viruses as tools to elucidate the molecular mechanisms for transport into the nucleus | British Columbia |
| Popovic, Milos | Neuroprosthesis for restoring quiet stance and balance during quit stances in individuals with spinal cord injury | Toronto |
| Presley, John | Roles of Rab18 in ER/golgi trafficking | McGill |
| Quarmby, Lynne | Elucidation of the signalling pathway of deflagellation | Simon Fraser |
| Ragogna, Paul | New structure, bonding and reactivity paradigms for the group 15 and 16 elements | Western Ontario |
| Rassier, Dilson | The role of myosin surface loops 1 and 2 in regulating the load-dependent power-stroke and ATP kinetics during muscle contraction | McGill |
| Robillard, Martin | Automated support for framework documentation | McGill |
| Rochon, D'Ann | Assembly and disassembly of cucumber necrosis virus and role of host components | British Columbia |
| Roger, Andrew | Phylogenomic approaches to inferring ancient relationships amongst eukaryotes | Dalhousie |
| Roorda, Matthew | Data fusion for agent-based freight demand and traffic simulation | Toronto |
| Rowland, Owen | Biosynthesis of plant extracellular lipids | Carleton |
| Rundle, Howard | The causes of evolutionary consequences of sexual selection | Ottawa |
| Saavedra, Carlos | Advanced frequency converters for the radio front-end of wireless communications transceivers | Queen's |
| Sabbagh, Mark | Brain development, experience, and the development of a representational theory of mind in preschoolers | Queen's |
| Sander, Jörg | Projected and semi-supervised clustering for high-dimensional data | Alberta |
| Santos, Manuela | Iron uptake, utilization and storage in mice | Montréal |
| Schafer, Laurel | N.O. chelated complexes of metals of low toxicity. Catalyst development for green chemistry | British Columbia |
| Schurko, Robert | Solid-state NMR of unreceptive nuclei | Windsor |
| Seiringer, Robert | Analysis of quantum many body systems | McGill |
| Singh, Karan | Sculpt and sketch interfaces for 3D modeling | Toronto |
| Sirois, Frédéric | Improvement of efficiency and robustness of power superconducting devices through high performance simulation tools and extended resistivity models | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Srivastava, Diane | The role of ecological filtering, dispersal limitation and species traits in determining food web structure and function | British Columbia |
| Stinchcombe, John | Ecological genomics of plant adaptation | Toronto |
| Stockie, John | Modelling and simulation of complex flow with multi-physics and multiple scales | Simon Fraser |
| Stoeber, Boris | Study and design of non-newtonian fluids for microflow manipulation | British Columbia |
| Strong, Kimberly | Remote sounding of air quality and greenhouse gases in arctic, urban environments and martian environments | Toronto |
| Struchtrup, Henning | Accurate and efficient models for microscopic transport processes in gases | Victoria |
| Sturdy, Christopher | Songbird BioCognition: An integrative approach to understanding songbird communication | Alberta |
| Tan, Bo | Pulsed laser micro and nano manufacturing | Ryerson |
| Thomo, Alex | Extracting intelligence from an interconnected world of data | Victoria |
| Tremblay, Sébastien | A systematic examination and modeling of STM across modalities and domains: a step towards reconciling modularity and functional equivalence | Laval |
| Valaee, Shahrokh | Effective sampling of recieved signal strength for location estimation | Toronto |
| Vassileva, Julita | Designing social infrastructures encouraging behaviour change and participation through personalized incentives | Saskatchewan |
| Villemur, Richard | Roles and interactions of two methylotrophic bacterial strains in the development of a marine denitrifying biofilm | INRS |
| Wan, Richard | Development of micromechanically-based models for geomaterials with coupled multiphysics | Calgary |
| Watmough, Shaun | Nutrient dynamics in sugar maple forests and assessment of long-term sensitivity to nitrogen deposition | Trent |
| Wells, Mathew | Transport and mixing in density stratified environmental flows | Toronto |
| Wigdor, Daniel | User interface feedforward and feedback supporting and enabling body tracking technologies | Toronto |
| Wilhelm, Frank | Theory of quantum information processing in solid state and hybrid systems | Waterloo |
| Wilson, Joanna | Function of cytochrome P450 enzymes in aquatic species | McMaster |
| Winship, Ian | Precise mapping of functional somatotopy in sensorimotor cortex | Alberta |
| Worm, Boris | Ecosystem oceanography: understanding the dynamics of a changing ocean | Dalhousie |
| Wu, Gang | Oxygen-17 NMR spectroscopy of biological systems | Queen's |
| Wu, Pei-Dong | Constitutive modeling of large strain behaviour of magnesium alloys | McMaster |
| Xie, Liang-Liang | Some fundamental problems in the development of wireless relay networks | Waterloo |
| Yilmaz, Ozgur | Quantization, frames and compressed sensing | British Columbia |
| Zhao, Yue | Development of advanced stimuli-responsive polymers | Sherbrooke |
| Zhu, David Zhiwei | Air/ water and sand/ water interactions in environmental hydraulics | Alberta |
| Zhu, Mu | Kernels and ensembles for horizontal and vertical information selection | Waterloo |
