Theses

Determinants of pediatric healthcare utilisation and medication use: environmental and microbiome associations

CHARACTERIZING THE INFLUENCE OF DIETARY FIBRE CONSUMPTION ON THE COMPOSITION AND FUNCTION OF FIBRE FERMENTING BACTERIA IN THE INFANT GUT MICROBIOME

Epigenetic underpinnings of pediatric immune system development

Association and Impact of the Physical Environment on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours in an Asthmatic Pediatric Population

How the infant gut microbiome shapes childhood allergic disease : data from the CHILD cohort study

The role of breastmilk IgA in infant gut microbiota and immune development

Early Life Exposure to Phthalates, Biological Agents, and Traffic-related Air Pollution: Interactions and Impacts on Children’s Respiratory Health

The Healthcare Burden of Pediatric Cough and its Association with Preschool Asthma

Untangling sources of DNA methylation variability in the context of development and rare diseases

Human Milk Components Are Associated With Gene-Environment Interactions and Impact Childhood Respiratory and Atopic Health

Gut Microbiome Maturation in Early Life: Ecological Dynamics and Gut-Brain Axis Insights

Network-based Computational Frameworks for Multi-omics Integration and Genome-wide Epistasis Detection in Complex Disease

DNA methylation differences associated with prenatal air pollution exposure in developmentally relevant tissues from two North American birth cohorts

Genome-wide Analysis of Short Tandem Repeat De Novo Mutations and Transmissions in General Populations

Characterizing T cell and plasmacytoid dendritic cell signatures in early life of antibiotic exposed neonates

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF BIFIDOBACTERIUM CARBOHYDRATE ACTIVE ENZYMES IN HUMAN MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDES UTILIZATION

The Early-Life Intestinal Mycobiome in Obesity Development and Metabolic Inflammation

Integrative genomic and exposomic analysis of mental health related behaviours in 5-year-old children

Infant feeding and child cognition and behaviour: quantifying pathways to understand the link in the CHILD cohort study

Projecting the outcomes of early interventions for asthma : data-driven and modeling studies

Investigating the relationship between infant feeding practices and inflammation-associated biomarkers of one-year-old infants in the CHILD Cohort study

Predictors of SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike IgG antibody levels following two COVID-19 vaccine doses among children and adults in the CHILD COVID-19 Add-On Study

Impact of Pre-eclampsia and Emergency Cesarean Section without Labour on Bifidobacterium Levels in Infant Gut Microbiota

Infant Nasal Microbiome and Respiratory Health Outcomes in Early Childhood in the CHILD Cohort

Preschool Diet and Child Health Outcomes: The CHILD Cohort Study

Maternal Antibody Transfer and Atopic Sensitization in Offspring

Human Milk Proteome and Peptidome: Variation, Interaction, and Relation with Allergy

Is neurodevelopment influenced by atopy in the mother or infant? Exploring the role of infant and maternal atopic status, infant gut microbiome, and metabolites in early child neurodevelopment

Modeling childhood wheezing in small areas in Manitoba

Impacts of medication use on child gut microbiota outcomes in the CHILD cohort study

Association Between Early Life Exposure to Phthalates and Organophosphate Esters and the Development of Childhood Asthma and Wheeze

Maternal Diet and Asthma in Children

Metals in Particulate Matter and Deciduous Teeth

Clinical and Economic burden of Caesarean-section

The Impact of Maternal Distress on Child Neurodevelopment in a Sex-Specific Manner: Examining the Mediating Role of the Infant Gut Microbiome

Evaluating feature selection techniques for identifying a microbial signature in 16S microbiome sequencing data

Perinatal Determinants of Mental Disorders Identifying Risk Factors and Testing the Effectiveness of Early Interventions on Infant and Child Emotion Regulation

Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interactions and Childhood Internalizing: Examining a Transactional Relationship Across Early Childhood

Bioinformatics Approaches for Investigating Missing Heritability in Complex Traits

Effect of Antimicrobial Exposure on Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Colonization of the Infant Gut Microbiota in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Birth Cohort

An Exploration of the Associations Between Gut and Serum Immunoglobulin A in Infancy and Asthma in Childhood

Cotinine, Tobacco Smoke, and Diet: Strengthening our Understanding of this Biomarker in Early Life

Infant gut fungal dysbiosis drives asthma onset and severity

Human milk microbiota and mycobiota in the CHILD cohort study

DNA Methylation and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Epigenome-Wide Associations in Canadian Birth Cohorts

The Association of Maternal Folate and Vitamin B12 Concentrations During Pregnancy with Neonate Birth Weight in South Asians and White Europeans Living in Canada: START, FAMILY and CHILD Birth Cohorts

The Association of Genetic and Dietary Exposures with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Risk

Early-life human cytomegalovirus infections in Canadians : implications for a healthy development

Understanding the role of Clostridioides difficile and Vitamin D supplementation in shaping the gut microbiome of Canadian infants

Cesarean Section and other Birth Interventions: impact on Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) colonization in the infant gut microbiota in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort

Sleep Duration and the Gut Microbiota in Infancy: an exploration of the determinants of sleep and the association between sleep and the gut microbiota at 3 months of age in a Canadian birth cohort

Contributions of intrinsic and environmental factors to early life DNA methylation

Early-life gut microbiota dysbiosis in children with atopic dermatitis

Temporal and geographic variation in aeroallergen measurements across four Canadian cities from 2008-2012

Duration of labour and its impact on the infant gut microbial composition in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort

The effect of the microbiome and short-chain fatty acid metabolites on early life immune development with long term consequences for atopy and asthma

Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach for Multicriteria Decision-Making with an Application to developing an ‘Urban Greenness Index’

Human milk oligosaccharide composition: implications for breastfeeding mothers and developmental origins of health and disease

Pre and postnatal maternal distress and infant gut immunity in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort

Prenatal and early-life exposure to non-nutritive sweeteners and body composition at 3 years of age

Effect of environmental exposure on infant gut microbiota composition and diversity in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) national birth cohort

Longitudinal measures of lung function in healthy infants

Defining the role of the human intestinal microbiota in childhood asthma and atopic disease

Month of Birth & Childhood Asthma

The factors that influence prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in indoor dust

Childhood asthma and allergies in birth cohort studies: tools for environmental exposure assessment

Maternal overweight prior to pregnancy and its impact on the infant gut microbiome and subsequent child overweight risk

Assessing the relationship between maternal peanut consumption during pregnancy and the prevalence of peanut allergy in a birth cohort

Wheezing in early life and validating the asthma predictive index

Routes of human exposure to per- and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in Winnipeg homes

Sleep and sleep disordered breathing in the first year of life: a Canadian birth cohort study

The impact of vitamin D on innate immune responsiveness to pattern recognition receptor stimulation in humans

Comparison of questionnaire responses with biomarkers of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in a Canadian birth cohort at three months of age

Is house dust a reservoir for infant gut bacteria?

Per- and polyfluorinated compounds in blood and their impact on respiratory problems in young children in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Phthalate exposure in a Canadian birth cohort at three months of age: exposure sources and the influence of socioeconomic status

Lung Clearance Index as a Marker of Ventilation Inhomogeneity in Early Childhood with Health and Disease