Large Scale Competitions Archives

Environment

Bacteria are an important source of biocatalysts for industrial processes, bioremediation agents, and bioactive compounds for pharmaceutical and other applications. This project es...

August 16, 2021

Human Health

Cancer Genomics – A multi-disciplinary approach to large-scale h...

Cancer kills one third of the Canadian population and millions of people are living with cancer. The goal of this project was to detect cancers at an early stage to increase the ch...

August 16, 2021

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Consortium for Genomic Research on All Salmonids Project (cGRASP)...

Salmon, trout and char comprise the salmonids, a group of fish that are of great economic and societal importance to Canada, particularly in the coastal, rural, and Aboriginal comm...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Pleiades Promoter Project...

Gene therapy delivers healthy genes to replace dysfunctional ones and has been tried worldwide with some tantalizing successes as well as disappointing failures in some human trial...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Pathogenomics of Innate Immunity (PI2)...

Despite being exposed to tens of thousands of potentially pathogenic microbes daily, we rarely succumb to infection, primarily due to our innate immune system. This ‘innate-i...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Dissecting Gene Expression Networks in Mammalian Organogenesis...

The mouse has been established as an important model organism in biomedical studies due to the high degree of genetic homology between mouse and humans plus the powerful ability to...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

High Resolution Analysis of Follicular Lymphoma Genomes...

Follicular lymphoma (FL), the most common type of lymphoma, is a cancer of the cells of the immune system. Follicular lymphoma is associated with a specific genome rearrangement wh...

May 25, 2021

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Building a GE3LS Architecture (GE3LS ARC)...

An objective of Genome Canada is to ‘ensure leadership in ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social issues (GE³LS) related to genomics and proteomics research.&...

May 25, 2021

Forestry

Conifer Forest Health Genomics...

Spruce is the dominant conifer species in Canada and is the most important tree of the Canadian forest industry. This project aimed to identify the genetic traits of spruce trees t...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Functional Genomics for Emerging Infectious Diseases (PREPARE) Project...

As a global community, we are constantly fighting infectious diseases that threaten health and reduce productivity. Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) include drug resistant staph...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Efficient Identification and Cloning of Single Gene Deletions in the N...

The nematode C. elegans is a powerful research tool to investigate fundamental questions about biology. It was the first multicellular organism for which a complete DNA sequence wa...

May 25, 2021

Agrifood

Bovine Genome Sequencing Program- Full-length cDNA Sequencing...

The bovine genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans, with approximately 3 billion base pairs and approximately 25,000 genes. Sequences for full-length cDNA clones derived...

May 25, 2021

Agrifood

GrapeGen- A Genomic Approach to the Identification of the Genetic and ...

This research project investigated the grape ripening process at a molecular level and the changes in that process in response to various environmental conditions. Grapevine (Vitis...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Functional Pathogenomics of Mucosal Immunity...

Despite being exposed to tens of thousands of potentially pathogenic microbes daily, we rarely succumb to infection, primarily due to our innate immune system. This ‘innate-i...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Expression Profiles of Cells and Tissues in C. elegans...

The nematode C. elegans is a powerful research tool to investigate fundamental questions about biology. It was the first multicellular organism for which a complete DNA sequence wa...

May 25, 2021

Forestry

Treenomix- Mechanisms of Wood Formation and Pest Resistance in Forest ...

Sustainable forestry in Canada will benefit from a genomic understanding of trees. The researchers looked at the spruce and poplar species, plus an applicable and biologically well...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Bioinformatics of Mammalian Gene Expression...

The project team based in BC Genome Sciences Centre developed a computational tool named Trans-AbySS that is highly effective in identifying novel RNA molecules. The project team d...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Comparative and Functional Genomics of the Human Pathogen Cryptococcus...

Cryptococcus gattii (formerly known as C. neoformans var gattii and C. bacillosporus), emerged as a human and animal pathogen on Vancouver Island in 1999 and has since spread to th...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

A Quantitative and Comprehensive Atlas of Gene Expression in Mouse Dev...

The mouse has been established as an important model organism in biomedical studies due to the high degree of genetic homology between mouse and humans plus the powerful ability to...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

C Elegans- The Nematode As A Model Organism...

The nematode C. elegans is a powerful research tool to investigate fundamental questions about biology. It was the first multicellular organism for which a complete DNA sequence wa...

May 25, 2021

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Democracy, Ethics and Genomics- Consultation, Deliberation and Modelin...

An objective of Genome Canada is to ‘ensure leadership in ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social issues (GE³LS) related to genomics and proteomics research.&...

May 25, 2021

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Genomics Research on Atlantic Salmon Project (GRASP)...

Salmon, trout and char comprise the salmonids, a group of fish that are of great economic and societal importance to Canada, particularly in the coastal, rural, and Aboriginal comm...

May 25, 2021