Check out some of the program's most impactful achievements below. More are available in the Compendium of Research, the Activity Reports, or by browsing all scientific publications.
Be part of the new generation of scientists for the North! Sentinel North announces its excellence scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships competition, from September 1 to October 13, 2021.
These grants and fellowships aim to encourage the best candidates to undertake or pursue research activities within the Sentinel North research program in an interdisciplinary environment.
Université Laval’s Sentinel North program is enabling teams that are advancing our knowledge on the microbiome. As highlighted below, Sentinel North supports novel interdisciplinary research and the deployment of new technologies to shed light on the Arctic environmental microbiome and its impact on human health.
Nunavik has been hard hit by thawing permafrost, which has caused extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure, made travel in the region riskier, and limited the hunting, fishing, and gathering activities of its inhabitants.
The next Scientific Meeting will take place from 6 to 8 May, 2025, at the Quebec city Convention Centre. Get all details here.
A collaboration between several centers and departments of Université Laval and the Natural History Museum of London suggests new avenues to better understand the key role of viruses in Arctic ecosystems. The method used also demonstrates that samples recovered more than 100 years ago can provide new answers using modern genomic tools.
The interdisciplinary collaborations initiated in this project were made possible, in part, by Sentinel North's research program.
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