Two Sentinel North teams among the 10 discoveries of the year in Québec Science
Of the 10 discoveries of the year 2020 according to Québec Science magazine, two are from Université Laval teams participating in the Sentinel North strategy.
A team led by André Marette has revealed a distinct bacterial signature in people with type-2 diabetes, an important breakthrough that will allow further research on this disease.
Achim Randelhoff's work shows that phytoplankton continues to grow even during winter in the Arctic, despite the almost total absence of light. This discovery opens up new avenues for the study of the marine food chain.
BOND2.0 — Deploying light-based sensing technologies to monitor climate active gases in a mutating Arctic
Principal investigators
Martin Bernier (Physics, physical engineering and optics), Daniel Nadeau (Civil and water engineering)
Scientific conferences
The Sentinel North Scientific Conferences are an opportunity for the entire program community and its partners to come together to discover emerging results from different teams in an interdisciplinary setting.
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A Network for Innovation
By encouraging the formation of collaborative research teams and projects that focus on discovery, transdisciplinarity and technological innovation, Sentinel North contributes to a research environment that pushes back the frontiers of knowledge.
Joint International Research Units
Sentinel North funds Joint International Research Units (JIRUs), associated with Université Laval’s four Canada Excellence Research Chairs, that allow the program to benefit from the work of exceptional teams and consolidate collaborations with leading organizations in the pursuit of its research and technological development objectives.
Mobilizing and transferring knowledge between northern communities and Sentinel North
Co-Principal Investigators
Holly Witteman (Family and Emergency Medicine), Jacynthe Roberge (Design)
Biological signatures of stress responses and potentiality of a diet enriched in n-3 fatty acids to promote positive mental health status despite adversity
Principal Investigator
Caroline Ménard (Psychiatry and neuroscience)
Co-Investigators
Gina Muckle (Psychology), Richard Bélanger (Pediatrics)
Extreme zooming on intestinal permeability and the western-style diet: unravelling the role of dietary antigens on the prevalence of cardiometabolic and mental health diseases in the north
Principal Investigators
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal (Psychiatry and neuroscience), Denis Boudreau (Chemistry)