Our Research

Our Partners

Industry Canada, through Genome Canada, is a major funder of our projects and other initiatives. As well, the following partners have supported specific projects or activities. (Project abbreviations found at the bottom.) 

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency/Atlantic Innovation Fund  - CGP, C-ADAPT, CPGP, UPGED, PEP, TAGC, Camelina

Capital Health - AMGGI

Cooke Aquaculture Inc. - CGP

Dalhousie University – AMGGI, PEP, UPGED

Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation - AMGGI

Eastern Health

Fisheries and Oceans Canada -CGP

Aquaculture Collaborative Research Development Program

St. Andrews Biological Station, NB

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, NL

Genoma España - Pleurogene

Glaucoma Research Foundation - AMGGI

Genesis Group - AMGGI

Genome Prairie - Camelina

GreatBay Aquaculture Inc. - CGP

Government of Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Camelina

Industry Canada - Operations and All Genome Canada Projects

Huntsman Marine Science Centre - CGP

Industrial Research and Innovation Fund, Government of NL - CGP

IWK Health Centre - AMGGI

Janeway Children’s Hospital Foundation - AMGGI

Marshfield Clinic - AMGGI

Memorial University

Faculty of Medicine - AMGGI

Faculty of Medicine, Research and Graduate Studies - AMGGI

Ocean Sciences Centre – CGP, Camelina

National Institutes of Health - AMGGI

National Research Council Canada - Industrial Research Assistance Program - CGP

National Research Council Institute for Marine Biosciences - CGP

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation – CGP

New Brunswick Research and Productivity Council - CGP

Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research - AMGGI

Newfoundland Cod Broodstock Company - CGP

Northern Cod Ventures Limited - CGP

Nova Scotia Agricultural College - Camelina

Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation - AMGGI

Province of New Brunswick

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture – CGP, CPGP

Province of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust – AMGGI, CGP, UPGED, PEP, TAGC

Province of Newfoundland and Labrador

Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development - CGP

Department of Health and Community Services - AMGGI

Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture - CGP

Scotian Halibut - Pleurogene

St. Jude Medical - AMGGI

University of British Columbia - CGP

University of Guelph - CGP

University of New Brunswick - CGP

University of Saskatchewan - Camelina

Project Abbreviations

AMGGI - Atlantic Medical Genetics and Genomics Initiative

Camelina – Developing Camelina as the Next Canadian Oilseed

CGP – The Atlantic Cod Genomics and Broodstock Development Project

CPGP – The Canadian Potato Genome Project

PEP - The Protist Expressed Sequence Tag Project 

Pleurogene – Pleurogene: Flatfish genomics: enhancing commercial culture of Atlantic halibut and Senegal sole

TAGC – The Atlantic Genome Centre

UPGED - Understanding Prokaryotic Genome Evolution and Diversity