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U of G’s Mass Spectrometry Facility Offers Unique Learning Experiences
Senior Research Technician Dr. Armen Charchoglyan with MSc student Elisa Lau.
By Cate Willis
Chemistry, food science, biomedical and toxicology researchers will benefit from new tools installed in 2021 in the University of Guelph’s mass spectrometry facility.
The new equipment – including a Thermo nLC Exploris 240 for quantitative protomics, a Waters LC Synapt Q-Tof with ion mobolity and a Bruker LC EVOQ Qube triple quadrupole MS for small molecule quantitation – will expand U of G’s research capacity and provide novel learning experiences for the next generation of researchers, says Dr. Dyanne Brewer, facility manager.
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Data Science: A Shifting Research Paradigm
Malcolm Campbell, Vice-President (Research)
COVID-19 turned research on its head.
Since early 2020, we’ve had to rethink how, why, when and where research takes place. Confronting the COVID-19 virus provided University of Guelph with one of its greatest challenges and it has responded in kind. Our researchers have repurposed innovations, conducted cutting-edge research, offered their expertise to pandemic efforts and applied data to help people everywhere understand, manage and react to the unprecedented situations we face.
The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only...
U of G Research Group Addressing Challenges for Farmers in Northern and Eastern Ontario
University of Guelph professor Dr. Joshua Nasielski, Ontario Agricultural College, started the Northern and Eastern Agronomy Research Group (NEO-AG) to conduct agronomic research to help farmers in Northern and Eastern Ontario. In this article, SPARK writer Abbey Drew examines the unique challenges that farmers in Northern and Eastern Ontario face and the various projects that NEO-AG has underway at area research stations...
Yeast Shows Promise as a Feed Additive for Beef Cattle
By Katie Kroeze
Finding an effective alternative to supplementing livestock feed with antimicrobials is the focus of a University of Guelph researcher.
Melissa Williams, a U of G animal biosciences doctoral candidate supervised by Dr. Katharine Wood, is investigating yeast as a substitute for antimicrobial use in feed for beef cattle. Her results suggest that yeast has the potential for similar average daily weight gain in beef cattle as traditional additives.
Although most antimicrobials used in beef cattle...
U of G Researcher Looking for Anti-Viral Treatment for COVID-19
By Vanessa Virgo
U of G researchers are on the hunt for chemical inhibitors that could be used to treat COVID-19 by halting viral progression in infected patients.
Dr. Wei Zhang, a professor in the College of Biological Science, says previous researchers found small molecule inhibitors that prevented viral progression of the SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV viruses.
Following the earlier model, he and his team at the Zhang Lab looked for a molecule that could...
More Milk, Less Methane from Global Dairy Collaboration
A dairy cow using a GreenFeed machine to have her emissions tracked while eating.
By Katie Kroeze
University of Guelph researchers co-led global efforts to establish a database intended to save money for the dairy industry, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Flavio Schenkel, Department of Animal Biosciences in the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), co-led the Efficient Dairy Genome Project (EDGP). The database allows farmers to use genomic information to select cattle with improved feed efficiency and lower methane emissions.
Researchers in Canada and abroad were involved in this...
U of G Professor Pens Book Chapter to Improve Food Security in Developing Nations
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By Mya Kidson
Improving food security by promoting nutritious food crops for low-income countries is the goal of a new book whose co-authors include a University of Guelph professor.
Dr. Helen Hambly Odame, a faculty member in the Ontario Agricultural College, aims to help ensure that root, tuber and banana (RTB) crops, such as potatoes, cassava and plantains, provide food security, or adequate and stable access to nutritious food, for people living in the world’s poorest regions.
Hambly recently co-wrote a...
Tracking the Spread of COVID Through Wastewater Surveillance
By Mya Kidson
University of Guelph researchers are looking to help improve COVID-19 testing protocols by monitoring wastewater for the pandemic-causing virus.
Dr. Marc Habash, a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, and his research team are developing a disease tracking model for COVID-19 using wastewater.
“We’ve got a lot of expertise at the University that has been useful in driving this kind of testing forward, and it’s been accelerated through a partnership between the province and other...
Research Project Uses Storytelling to Change Dominant COVID Narratives
By Vanessa Virgo
University of Guelph professor Dr. Carla Rice, College of Social & Applied Human Sciences, collaborated with researchers from other Canadian universities to develop a digital storytelling platform where marginalized groups of people could share their experiences with COVID-19. In this article, SPARK writer Vanessa Virgo examines how the pandemic has had uneven impacts across social groups and how storytelling can change dominant COVID narratives...
The Power of #MeToo Testimony
By Vanessa Virgo
A University of Guelph researcher argues #MeToo testimonies could shift social and cultural attitudes on sexual violence and harassment toward women in ways that benefit not only women but also society at large.
Dr. Karyn Freedman, a professor in the College of Arts, explored the individual and societal benefits of #MeToo testimony in the article “...