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Maria Pedras

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Distinguished Professor EmeritaDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of Saskatchewan

Maria Pedras

Distinguished Professor Emerita

Department of Chemistry

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (6 NSERC, 2 CFI), most recently in 2013.

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Latest funding

Chemistry of Plant-Pathogen Interactions
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$420,000
Exploring crop protection alternatives: can phytoalexins defend plants from phytotoxin harm?
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Biomolecular Research Facilities: Supporting Agricultural, Health & Environmental Sciences
CFI · 2012 · Principal investigator
$1,599,798

All 10 grants and awards

Chemistry of Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

$420,000

Exploring crop protection alternatives: can phytoalexins defend plants from phytotoxin harm?

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

$25,000

Biomolecular Research Facilities: Supporting Agricultural, Health & Environmental Sciences

Principal investigatorCFI2012Innovation Fund: Leading Edge Fund (2012 competition)

Principal investigators: Pedras, Maria Soledade

Keywords: molecular structure determination, natural product screening, biosynthesis, synthesis, protein and polysaccharide molecular characterization NMR, LC-NMR, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, SPR, X-ray diffractometer

$1,599,798

Bioorganic and Agricultural Chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

$1,200,000

Bioorganic and Agricultural Chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

Keywords: CRC

$200,000

Chemistry of plant-pathogen interactions

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

$350,000

Equipment for metabolic profiling and enzyme purification of plant and fungal products of importance to agriculture and environment

Principal investigatorCFI2004John R. Evans Leaders Fund: Canada Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund

Principal investigators: Pedras, Maria Soledade

Keywords: secondary metabolism, chemical ecology, structure determination, enzyme characterization, liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopic analysis

$140,000

Canada Research Chair in Bioorganic and Agricultural Chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Pedras, MariaSoledade

Keywords: CRC

$401,025

The Saskatchewan Centre for Biomolecular Research

Co-investigatorCFI2000Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Verrall, Ronald

Keywords: interfacial chemistry, amphiphile, self-assembly, ultrasonic relaxation, structure determination (NMR, fluorescence probing), cyclodextrin inclusates

$1,511,570

The Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre

Co-investigatorCFI1999Innovation Fund: Institutional Innovation Fund over $350,000

Principal investigators: Majewski, Marek

Keywords: structural science, nmr, crystallography, lasers, microscopy, surfaces, macromolecules

$1,874,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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