Street smart app. Yeast variations.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 21, 2016
Researchers in the news
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- AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) picks up coverage of this week's launch of the new MTLTrajet mobile app — a travel survey tool developed by a team at Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) lab, led by Zachary Patterson, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Launched as part of the City of Montreal’s Smart and Digital City Action Plan, MTLTrajet will help city planners learn more about urban mobility. Concordia and Patterson are mentioned by City of Montreal executive committee vice-president Harout Chitilian in a video interview posted by Canoe.
- AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) covers new Concordia research into cellular variations in yeast that could lead to the development of a new generation of anti-fungal drugs. The research was led by Malcolm Whiteway, biology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics at Concordia, with collaboration from Concordia PhD candidate Walters Tebung.