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Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

Contact information:

Office: 6135625800 x 6371
Office: 6135625800 x 6375
Cell: 613 804 1885
Home: 613 518 7767
E-mail: altosaar@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

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,

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry, microbiology and immunology
• Biopharmaceutical science
• Breastfeeding Medical Education
• Breastfeeding Promotion
• Climate change
• Global Warming
• Global warming
• Molecular biology
• Pediatrics
• Soils

Language preference:

English and French , Estonian Greek German

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

Contact information:

Cell: 819-384-3424
E-mail: nafissa.ismail@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

• Understanding the different COVID-19 variants and their impact on our society and children.
• Effects of enduring stress (like the COVID-19 pandemic and sanitary restrictions) on brain health.
• Mechanisms of sex differences in psychological and neurological illnesses.
• Sex differences in COVID-19 symptoms and in the prevalence of long-COVID.
• Impact of chronic stress in adolescences.
• Building resilience to stress.
• The link between the gut microbiome and brain functioning.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Adolescent mental health
• Animal behaviour
• Biopharmaceutical science
• Cognition
• Developmental biology
• Immunology
• Molecular biology
• Neuroscience
• Psychopathology
• Sex/sexuality
• Stress

Language preference:

English and French

Director, Neuroelectrophysiolgy Research Laboratory
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Psychiatry

Contact information:

Office: 613-722-6521 (6843)
Office: 613-722-6521(6254)
Home: 613-269-3645
E-mail: vknott@rohcg.on.ca

Preferred method of contact:

Office Telephone

Research information:

Effects of psychotropic drugs and treatments (e.g. nicotine,antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics) on brain function as measured by EEG, event-related potentials (ERPs) and cognitive performance tasks. Neuroelectrophysioligical research on cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Biopharmaceutical science
• Mental health
• Psychiatry

Language preference:

English only

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

Contact information:

Office: 613-255-5476
Cell: 613-255-5476
Home: 613-255-5476
E-mail: mshehata@ottawaheart.ca

Preferred method of contact:

Cell Telephone

Research information:

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.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry, microbiology and immunology
• Biopharmaceutical science
• Cancer
• Genetics
• Genetics
• Health
• Health-service providers
• Inorganic chemistry
• Medical research
• Medicinal chemistry
• Molecular biology
• Organic chemistry
• Pharmacology
• Physiology

Language preference:

English only