UBC Science researchers receive $7 million in NSERC funding
June 15, 2021
Thirty-three UBC Science faculty members received a total of $7 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants to support long-term research goals for individual researchers for up to five years. This comes from a total of 85 projects across UBC awarded for $16.9 million.
“The Discovery Grants Program is truly the NSERC’s funding flagship. It is our largest program, in terms of both overall investment and number of recipients. What’s more, it provides researchers with a predictable, long-term foundation of support as they explore and push back the frontiers of knowledge,” says Alejandro Adem, President of NSERC.
The NSERC Discovery Grants program is part of a larger federal initiative that invested more than $635 million in funding for research grant programs.
UBC Science recipients include researchers from Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Math, Microbiology and Immunology, Michael Smith Labs, Physics and Astronomy, Statistics, and Zoology.
New Projects Include:
Alternative Splicing of Duplicated Genes in Polyploid Brassica napus
Keith Adams (Botany)
Total Funding: $325,000
Green Chemistry using Early Transition Metal Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules
Laurel Schafer (Chemistry)
Total Funding: $395,000
Mitigating Side-Channel Leaks in Next-Generation Cloud Systems
Aastha Mehta (Computer Science)
Total Funding: $145,000
Geophysical Investigations of Mars and Mercury
Catherine Johnson (Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences)
Total Funding: $475,000
Mathematical Aspects of Atomistic and Multiscale Modelling
Christoph Ortner (Math)
Total Funding: $240,000
Maintaining plant immune homeostasis in the rhizosphere microbiome
Cara Haney (Microbiology and Immunology)
Total Funding: $325,000
The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies
Allison Man (Physics and Astronomy)
Total Funding: $195,000
Regularization and approximation: statistical inference, model selection, and large data
Daniel McDonald (Statistics)
Total Funding: $135,000
Evolution of species interactions in adaptive radiation
Dolph Schluter (Zoology)
Total Funding: $475,000
