{"id":16776,"date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/20-million-invested-in-genomics-research\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T04:00:00","slug":"20-million-invested-in-genomics-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/20-million-invested-in-genomics-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$20 million invested in genomics research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is\u00a0<span>pleased to share the Qu\u00e9bec results in conjunction with two Genome Canada competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In total, Qu\u00e9bec secured $20 million funding for four projects that will drive the development of genomics solutions in the fisheries, agri-food, health and digital sectors<\/p>\n<p>The <em>2018 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics Solutions for Agriculture, <br \/> Agri-food, Fisheries and Aquaculture<\/em> aims to support projects leading to solutions that advance the sustainability, productive capacity and competitive position of the agriculture, agri-food, fisheries and aquaculture sectors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congratulations to researcher <strong>Louis Bernatchez (Institut de biologie int\u00e9grative des syst\u00e8mes (IBIS) &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/strong>, for his project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/227-en\/project\/fishes-fostering-indigenous-small-scale-fisheries-for-health-economy-and-food-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>FISHES: Fostering Indigenous Small-scale Fisheries for Health, Economy and Food Security<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <em>Genomic Applications Partnership Program <\/em>(GAPP) encourages partnerships between university researchers and end users in order to meet the needs of key sectors (human health, agriculture, forestry, the environment). Initiatives funded under the program offer real-world solutions to current problems and build stronger bridges between industry and end users.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the three research teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christoph Borchers (McGill University)<br \/><\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/229-en\/project\/developing-the-next-generation-pd-l1-assays-using-precision-mass-spectrometry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Developing the Next Generation PD-L1 Assays Using Precision Mass Spectrometry<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steve Labrie (INAF &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Laval)<br \/><\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/230-en\/project\/genomic-based-approach-to-optimize-the-development-of-texturizing-bacterial-strains-in-yogurt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genomic-based approach to optimize the development of texturizing bacterial strains in yogurt<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Waldisp\u00fchl (McGill University)<br \/><\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/228-en\/project\/crowdsourcing-sequence-alignments-in-a-aaa-game-for-microbiome-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crowdsourcing sequence alignments in a AAA game for microbiome research<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/DATA\/COMMUNIQUE\/346_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the press release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/data\/nouvelle\/449_en.pdf' download>T\u00e9l\u00e9charger le document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is\u00a0pleased to share the Qu\u00e9bec results in conjunction with two Genome Canada competitions. In total, Qu\u00e9bec secured $20 million funding for four projects that will drive the development&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}