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ALTOSAAR, Illimar »


Illimar Altosaar

Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 6135625800 x 6371
Office: 6135625800 x 6375
Cell: 613 804 1885
Home: 613 518 7767
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New breeding techniques to fight global warming through climate-smart crops. Climate change, Greenhouse Gases, GHG, Global warming, carbon dioxide, CO2, Nitrous oxide, N2O, bioremediation, biotechnology, soil metagenome, soil microbiome, biodiversity, gene amplification, soil biocatalysts, Atmospheric phytoremediation, Pseudomonas nautica, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, nosZ gene operon, Nitrous Oxide reductase enzyme, fertilizer, Nitrogen cycle, nitrate run-off,

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BELL, John »


John Bell

Senior Scientist
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 613-737-7700 (70333)
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My lab is defining at the molecular level, the differences between normal and tumour tissues. Our plan is to develop novel cancer therapeutics that target tumour tissue but do not harm normal tissue. We are developing viruses that can infect and kill tumour cells but do not infect normal cells. These viruses are called Oncolytic Viruses

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BENOITON, Leo N. »


Emeritus professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 613-234-9002
Home: 613-234-9002
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Chemistry of the synthesis of peptides. Chemical reactions and technologies utilized to combine amino acids to form biologically interesting peptides that can be considered small proteins.

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BROWN, EARL »


EARL BROWN

Emeritus professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 16132247533
Office: 6135625800x8299
Cell: 16137168026
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Performed genetic studies of RNA viruses with a focus on evolution of virulence in influenza virus, reovirus replication and cancer treatment, and hepatitis C immune evasion. The work focused on understands viral replication so that virus infection can both be prevented and alternatively be applied as therapy to treat diseases. He is a founding member of the Canadian Oncolytic Virus Consortium that is developing viruses as novel tumor therapeutics. He is also the founding Executive Director of the University of Ottawa for Emerging Pathogens Research Centre (EPRC). Dr. Brown is an internationally recognized influenza researcher who sits on various committees and institutional groups (CIHR workshop on influenza research priorities 2005; CIHR Pandemic Preparedness Strategic Research Initiative Task group; Organizing and program committee Chair of the 2008 of Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Meeting ; Pandemic Vaccine Working Group of the Public Health Agency of Canada; ) dealing with influenza pandemic preparedness.

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CAMPBELL-VALOIS, François-Xavier »


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Associate professor
Faculty of Science
Chemistry

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Office: 3976
Cell: 819-968-3646
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My research group is interested in understanding the interplay established between bacteria and their host during infection.

We are currently focusing on the enteropathogen Shigella flexneri, which use a Type Three Secretion Apparatus (T3SA) to inject some of its proteins inside human intestinal cells. Our main interests are:

  1. T3SA functioning and regulation;
  2. bacterial strategies for hijacking the biological processes of the host;
  3. bacterial and host adaptation at play during infection. Our long-term objective is to identify novel therapeutic avenues to treat infectious diseases.

Keywords: gastrointestinal infections caused by bacteria of the Shigella genus and other Escherichia coli.

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FREEDMAN, Mark »


Mark FREEDMAN

Director of Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Medicine

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Office: 613-737-8917
Office: 613-737-8532
Cell: 613-762-6445
Home: 613-226-6440
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Multiple sclerosis; clinical and basic immunological studies. Testing new agents or treatments; mechanisms of immune-mediate damage to the central nervous system.

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English and French , hébreux / Hebrew

LANEUVILLE, Odette »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8402)
Home: 613-739-7435
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Cyclooxygenase enzyme, which is the target of aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs, at the molecular level.

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LANGLOIS, Marc-André »


Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Intrinsic Immunity
Assistant professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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HIV, Retroviruses and Immunity

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PELCHAT, Martin »


Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8846)
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Subviral RNA pathogens. Study of subviral:host interactions in order to effectively control their propagation.

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SHEHATA, Marlene Fouad »


Prof., Pharmacist and PhD candidate in Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases
Part-time professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Medicine

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Office: 613-255-5476
Cell: 613-255-5476
Home: 613-255-5476
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My main field of research is targeting the salt-sensitive high blood pressure. This particular kind of high blood pressure has been connected with a genetic component that is inherited from parents to offspring and that is usually exacerbated by high salt-intake. As a Geneticist Candidate and a Pharmacist, I am investigating the genes that might be involved in transmitting that genetic form of high blood pressure.

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