Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Zoom information for virtual exams is not listed; if you are interested in attending one of these defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.
Tuesday, 3 October 2023 - 4:30pm - Room 200
Paul Boniface Akaabre
Department: Community and Regional Planning
Land Privatization and Formalization as Traditional Leasehold Properties in Ghana: Structure, Transparency, Efficiency of the Tenure Model for Housing Investment and Delivery
Wednesday, 4 October 2023 - 2:30pm
Jiameng Lan
Department: Botany
Genetic Analysis of Signaling Pathway Mediated by FLAVIN-DEPENDENT MONOOXYGENASE 1 in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Thursday, 5 October 2023 - 11:00am - 5505, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall
Yinjia Huo
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cable Health Monitoring using Power Line Communications Signal and Machine Learning Technique
Thursday, 5 October 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Ching-chung Hsueh
Department: Physics and Astronomy
A Journey into Computational Protein Design: Simulation Methods, Physical Origins of Disease, and Therapeutic Design for Neurodegenerative Diseases and COVID19
Friday, 6 October 2023 - 11:30am - 2107, Anthropology and Sociology Building, 6303 NW Marine Dr
Kendra Leigh Jewell
Department: Anthropology
"Bailing with a Red Solo Cup": Recognition, Disregard, and the Everyday Horror of Climate Crisis in Coastal Florida
Friday, 6 October 2023 - 3:00pm - D219, Chemistry Building, 2036 Main Mall
Junliang Liu
Department: Chemistry
The Control and Analysis of One-Pot Multistep Reactions by Automation and Reaction Monitoring Technologies
Friday, 6 October 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Yunlong Zhao
Department: Materials Engineering
Monolithic Integration of 850 nm and 940 nm AlGaAs Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers on Bulk Si and Ge Substrates
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 - 9:30am - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue
Gabriela Cristina Segat
Department: Oncology
From MYCN to Inflammaging: Understanding the Pathogenesis of Immature T-ALL
Friday, 13 October 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Ira James Sutherland
Department: Forestry
Historical Dynamics of Ecosystem Services and their Social-ecological Drivers in British Columbia, Canada
Friday, 13 October 2023 - 9:00am - Room 203
Giuseppe Vojin Crescenzo
Department: Chemistry
Viscosity of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol and Atmospheric Implications
Friday, 13 October 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Andrew Chadwick
Department: Forestry
Enhancing Post-Harvest Regeneration Monitoring with Digital Aerial Photogrammetry and Deep Learning
Friday, 13 October 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Yulia Egorova
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Global Distribution and Biomass of the Mesopelagic Mesozooplankton and Micronekton Community
Monday, 16 October 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Shuang Liu
Department: Zoology
Integrating Transcriptomics and Physiology to Reveal Evidence for Local Adaptation in Prickly Sculpin (Cottidae: Cottus asper) Across British Columbia
Monday, 16 October 2023 - 11:00am - X836, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Nico Ritschel
Department: Computer Science
Enriching Block-based End-user Programming with Visual Features
Monday, 16 October 2023 - 11:00am
Jaco-Pierre van der Merwe
Department: Forestry
The Impact of Altitude, Soil Geology, and Soil Depth on Pinus Patula Solid Wood Properties for Structural Timber and Plywood Production
Tuesday, 17 October 2023 - 12:30pm
Alicia Elaine Luedke
Department: Political Science
Negotiating Gender in Crisis: Global Norms and State Power in South Sudan
Friday, 20 October 2023 - 3:00pm - E404, Shaughnessy Building, BC Children's and Women's Hospital, 4500 Oak St
Arezoo Alemzadeh Mehrizi
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Role of Epidermal Growth Factor Family in Copy-number High Endometrial Cancers
Monday, 23 October 2023 - 9:30am - Room 200
Kelsey Ann Everard
Department: Civil Engineering
Natural Convective Processes
Monday, 23 October 2023 - 12:00pm
Xuejun Ji
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Using Cross-Classified Mixed Effects Model for Validation Studies: A Flexible and Pragmatic Validation Method
Thursday, 26 October 2023 - 9:00am
Ali Mirza
Department: Bioinformatics
The Gut Microbiome in Pediatric-onset Multiple Sclerosis
Thursday, 26 October 2023 - 3:30pm
Hoda Sadat Hashemi
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
3D Ultrafast Ultrasound Elastography
Monday, 30 October 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Samuel Caleb Wee
Department: English Language and Literatures
The Lyric Selfie: Mediating Race and Subjectivity in Poetry from Print to Web 2.0
Tuesday, 31 October 2023 - 9:00am
Emily Jean Amburgey
Department: Anthropology
Migration, Climate Change, and the Transformation of Translocal Livelihoods in Mustang, Nepal
Wednesday, 1 November 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kamila Romanowski
Department: Experimental Medicine
Looking Beyond Cure: Refining Our Understanding of the Long-Term Impacts of Tuberculosis
Friday, 3 November 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Daniel Eunsoo Ji
Department: Social Work
Reframing Adolescent Resistance to Parents
Monday, 6 November 2023 - 9:00am
Thalia Otamendi
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
The Role of Illness Perceptions in Mental Health Treatment-seeking and Outcomes After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Friday, 10 November 2023 - 9:00am
Ine Johanna Sebastiana Beljaars
Department: Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Embodied Encounters: Afro-Latin Dance and Dutch Cultural Identity
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 - 9:00am
Sandra E Filippelli
Department: Language and Literacy Education
A Walking Guide to Writing about My Aesthetic Encounters with Art