Career Opportunities

Research Interests: Educational administration and leadership in K-12 setting, Leadership , The role of the school principals, Social justice and diversity, Comparative policy studies, Education and Training Management, Ideology and Social Policy, Social Contract and Social Justice, Offshore school and its leadership, educators' health and wellbeing

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My research lies in the areas of educational leadership and administration, social justice and diversity, “subversive” leadership, leadership in cross-cultural settings, and educational policy studies in K-12 settings. I explore how principals negotiate policies and practices that they consider socially unjust to students and how they “creatively” cope with conflicts between moral and ethical obligations and counterproductive policies and practices. Drawing from social justice and leadership theories, I am currently involved in research in four interrelated areas: a) the changing nature of school principals’ work, particularly, their work intensification; b) principals’ subversive strategies in contexts where their day-to-day operation of schools is significantly constrained by policy initiatives and academic standards; c) principals’ strategic leadership through The Art of War to understand school principals’ social justice advocacy when their work is fraught with tensions, moral dilemmas, and political struggles; and d) leadership challenges in cross-cultural contexts (e.g., offshore schools). These projects are funded by SSHRC, Hampton, and HSS grants.

Research Interests: Implementation science, Rural health , Virtual health innovation, Research partnerships, Health promotion , Rehabilitation

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My implementation science research program focuses on improving (virtual) health services and care for equity-deserving groups in rural, remote, and other isolated communities. My research involves studying the implementation processes of health innovations in real-world settings from different perspectives. To maximize the quality and impact of my work, I meaningfully engage research users as partners throughout the research process. My research involves various types of health innovation. Example research project areas include, but are not limited to: 

• Drone Transport Initiative: exploring the implementation of drones for transporting medical supplies to rural and Indigenous communities.
• Improving healthcare for people with spinal cord injury living in rural and remote communities via educational workshops for rural clinicians (in partnership with Praxis Spinal Cord Institute). 
• Implementation of smoking cessation services in urban and rural areas in B.C. (in partnership with Legacy for Airway Health). 
• Improving guidance for virtual health innovation partnerships with rural and remote communities.
• Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0. 

Research Interests: CRISPR/Cas, Diabetes, Human pluripotent stem cells, Transcriptional regulation, ß-cell biology, ß-cell development

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Research in the Lynn lab is targeted at understanding the insulin-producing pancreatic β-cell, how it fails during diabetes mellitus and how we can make surrogate cells to cure diabetes. We use a variety of models to study the regulatory pathways important for embryonic β-cell genesis and function. The current focus of research in the lab is understanding how DNA-binding transcription factors regulate β-cell formation and function, how they are reguated post-translationally and how they prevent β-cell dysfunction and diabetes. We currently have positions available for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in studying the regulation of pancreatic β-cell development and function. Please contact me personally by e-mail with a cover letter outlining your interests, why you would like to join my lab, and please include your vita. Experience in cell and developmental biology, molecular biology or stem cell biology is preferred. More important are curiosity and passion about stem and developmental biology, and a talent for independent research, supported by a strong publication record.

Research Interests: protein folding, protein stability, protein aggregation, protein engineering, funtional amyloid, bacterial amyloid, protein nanofibrils, food proteins, legume proteins, aspartic proteases, psychrophilic enzymes, precision fermentation, biophysics, food chemistry, alternative food proteins, optical tweezers, single molecule force spectroscopy, cryoEM, proteomics

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1. bacterial biofilm amyloid: assembly mechanism and drug targeting

2. functional and engineered amyloid from plant (legume) proteins

3. protein (enzyme) engineering to control stability

Research Interests: Adaptation, Crops, Invasive plants, Plant evolutionary biology, Speciation, Weeds

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Adaptation, Speciation, Evolution of Crops and Weeds, Bioinformatics

Research Interests: Healthy Aging, Exercise , Fall Prevention, Cognitive Aging, Randomized Controlled Trials , Physical Activity, Mobility, Neuroimaging, Sleep

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Increasing precision in exercise prescription to promote cognitive and brain health. The neural interplay between cognitive function and mobility. The relationship between sleep and cognitive function. Preventing falls in high-risk older adults.

Research Interests: Liquid metal processing, Casting processes, Additive Manufacturing, Directed Energy Deposition, Powder Bed Fusion, Light Metals Processing, Aluminum Alloys, Titanium Alloys, Mathematical Process Modeling: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Mechanical Deformation

Research Interests: Metabolomics, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Machine learning, Bioinformatics

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Our research interests include:

• Integration of metabolomics with other ‘omics’ (epigenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) data for the systems-level interrogation of biological problems
• Application of state-of-art metabolomics technologies in various biological challenges, such as mechanistic understanding of cancer metabolism and disease biomarker discovery
• Synergetic development of analytical and bioinformatic techniques to enhance metabolomic coverage and improve the confidence of metabolite identification

Research Interests: Corporate Reporting, Disclosures and Governance, Sustainability and Climate Finance, Digital Economy and Value of Data & AI, Financial Intermediaries, Firm Information Environment, Innovation and Product Market

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genetics, Cancer biology, Genomic rearrangements, Genomics, Pancreas, Pathology, Patient derived models

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We conduct translational cancer research and have various ongoing projects focusing on Pancreatic Cancer. We are looking for students interested in a bioinformatics and bench top project studying genomic alterations and rearrangements and students interested in the development and use of patient deterived organoid models for translational research including drug screening, metabolism, and idetification of treatment markers.