Faculty

“My research in agricultural/bio-energy production systems involves measurements of productivity, nutrient cycling, carbon dynamics and energy efficiency. My lab examines the sustainability of systems as impacted by soil disturbance, crop rotation complexity, and input intensity.”

 

 

“Food safety; Computational intelligence - process control and decision support; Women in Science and Engineering”

 

 

“My research focuses primarily on computational statistics and statistical bioinformatics. Some applications include classification and clustering of high-dimensional gene expression data using model-based clustering. Current work revolves around families of mixture models in variational Bayes and expectation-maximization framework with applications in bioinformatics.”

 

 

“My research focuses on the economics of food and agricultural markets, with particular attention devoted to consumer behaviour and demand analysis at the individual, household and market level. Recent projects have examined consumer acceptance and willingness to pay for food products embodying production based attributes, such as organic and local foods, foods embodying enhanced animal welfare characteristics and functional foods. I also undertake research related to innovation in the agri-food and biotechnology sectors, and economic history (with a focus on anthropometric history).”

 

 

“A metacommunity consists of multiple ecological communities in a landscape linked by dispersal of individuals between these sites. The metacommunity approach adds a layer of complexity above community dynamics and biodiversity: depending on the degree of dispersal and environmental heterogeneity between different sites, ecological dynamics can be determined by local environmental conditions or by processes in neighbouring sites that are propagated via dispersal of individuals. I employ a quantitative approach to integrate observational, experimental and synthetic data sets, gathered by myself and others, to study this interaction of dispersal and environmental processes.”

 

 

“My research focuses on contemporary French women’s writing and the theory and practice of literary translation. I have been general editor of Women in French Studies for the past 5 years. My literary translations have been read at the Dubai International Poetry Festival, Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, readings organized by the Consulat de France à Toronto, the Rotterdam Poetry International Festival, and The University of Connecticut.”

 

 

“We study light-activated membrane proteins important in bioenergetics and vision. In our research, we combine methods of modern biophysics with techniques of molecular biology and biochemistry.”

 

 

“The main focus of the laboratory is to study the host response to infection with lentiviruses such as the feline immunodeficiency virus. Other research concerns the role of secretoglobins in the development and progression of lung inflammation in horses.”

 

 

“My group uses in vivo and in vitro models to ask how transcriptional regulators of the Dlx gene family influence cellular differentiation in the skeleton and craniofacial tissue patterning during vertebrate embryogenesis. We are also interested in how changes within this gene family have influenced animal form over the course of vertebrate evolution.”

 

 

“Wine, bundling, yield management, and pricing. Recent publications are about wine list inventory optimisation, wine label marketing, the efficiency of wine retailing.”