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, 26 March 2024 - 3:30pm - Room 203
Fatemeh Asadi Zeidabadi
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Electrochemical Degradation of Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 - 4:00pm - 4127, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Max Gheorghiu
Department: Mathematics
On a Completion of Cohomological Functors Generalizing Tate Cohomology
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Mehdi Setayesh
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Machine Learning-Based Algorithms Design for Network Slicing, Federated Learning, and 360° Video Streaming in Wireless Systems
Wednesday, 27 March 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Ji Ai Cho
Department: Educational Studies
Transformative Learning through Collaboration: Experiences of Education Beyond Borders' Members from Canada and Kenya
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Luka Culibrk
Department: Bioinformatics
Copy Number Variation in Metastatic Cancer: Methods and Analysis of Somatic Copy Number Variation in Advanced Human Cancers
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Lianne Cho
Department: MD/PhD Program
Characterization of Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Anxiety Among Adults Who Are Homeless or Precariously Housed
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Darcie-Anne Gabrielle Bailey
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Implementation of PATH in a Secondary School: A Case Study
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 1:00pm - 101, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Hilary Tyne Brewis
Department: Medical Genetics
Deciphering H2A.Z-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation in Saccaromyces cerevisiae
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 2:00pm - Room 200
Julie Ella-May McNutt
Department: Chemistry
Investigating the Anti-proliferative Effects of Somatostatin on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Cells Using Biochemical Methods and Capillary Electrophoresis
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - 3:00pm - Zoom
Hamid Alizadeh
Department: Mining Engineering
The Effects of Physicochemical Properties of Polyacrylamide-Based Flocculants on Characteristics of Flocculated Quartz
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Gurneet Kaur Braich
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
The Influence of Climate Change on Crop Yields in the Canadian Prairies
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 - 1:00pm - A4-187, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave
Tasha Wainstein
Department: Medical Genetics
Adolescent Perspectives: Genetic Counselling, Identity Development, Psychological Adaptation, Ableism, and Peer Attitudes in the Context of a Genetic Condition
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 - 1:00pm - Room 200
Pascale Haworth Fricke
Department: Sauder School of Business
Three Papers Examining How Employees and Audiences Understand and Evaluate Occupations
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 - 4:00pm - 308A, Frank Forward Building, 6350 Stores Rd
Hossein Zargarnezhad
Department: Materials Engineering
Characterization of Powder-Based Pipeline Coating Systems in Wet Environments
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Amirhossein Omidvarpashesar
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Flexible Polymer-Based Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (Flexible PolyCMUTs) for Conformal Sonography
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Fanny Suzanne Paule Couture
Department: Zoology
Assessing the Influence of Climate Variability and Resource Competition on Prey Availability for Southern Resident Killer Whales
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 1:00pm - Room CEPA, UFV Chilliwack - Building A, 45190 Caen Avenue, Chilliwack
Shirley Anne Hardman
Department: Educational Studies
Indigenizing: One Heart at a Time
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Micheal David Don Jerowsky
Department: Geography
Comparing the Use of Virtual, Augmented, and Outdoor Field Trips in the Environmental Education of Children
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 3:30pm - Zoom
Justin Poon
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Cardiac Radiosurgery Motion Management - Investigation of Regional Myocardial Motion and Cardiac Gating
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Yuxi Feng
Department: Computer Science
Towards Alleviating Human Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Manuel Ruivo de Oliveira
Department: Mathematics
Free Boundary Minimal Submanifolds in Geodesic Balls of Simply Connected Space Forms
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 9:30am - 1346 Faculty Lounge, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Siyu Song
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Mechanisms by Which Plants Shape the Rhizosphere Microbiome Structure and Function
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Gustavo Tsay
Department: Civil Engineering
Owner-driven Implementation of BIM: Process, Challenges, Information Quality, and Value
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Lisa Raquel Trainor
Department: Kinesiology
Olympic and Paralympic Athletes' (De)construction of Athlete Psychological Well-Being
Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 3:30pm - Zoom
Simone Coccia
Department: Mathematics
Distribution of Integral Points on Varieties
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 9:00am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Shruti Tophkhane
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Mutations in Frizzled2 and Dishevelled1 Inhibit Skeletogenesis and Disturb WNT Signaling During the Craniofacial Development in the Chicken Embryo
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Daniel Daly-Grafstein
Department: Statistics
Bayesian Causal Inference for Discrete Data
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 10:00am - 1346 Faculty Lounge, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Thomas Nguyen
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Xiaoyi Ze
Department: Asian Studies
The "Short-Lived" Challengers: The Qing Merchants in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1882-1895
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Fernando Martins Secco Luce
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Economic History and Development
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 12:30pm - 1209, Neville Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Margaret Teresa O'Sullivan
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
3000 Violins: Stories and Touchstones of Quality in 21st Century Ways of Becoming in Music Making and Learning
Friday, 5 April 2024 - 2:00pm - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Alireza Babaee
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Nonlinear Thermoelastic Analysis of Axisymmetric Plates under Rapid Cooling
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Ronan Denyer
Department: Neuroscience
An Investigation into the Functional Role of Dorsal Premotor Cortex in the Control of Rhythmic Bimanual Movements
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Hugo Pineda
Department: Forestry
Modeling the Mat Formation and Consolidation of Engineered Bamboo Composites
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom
Jane Foo
Department: Oncology
New Approaches to Targeting Transcription Factors in Hormone-Dependent Cancers
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 10:00am - 309(B), Hennings Building, 6224 Agricultural Rd
Erik Bernard Frieling
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Explorations of Universality in Ultra-Cold and Room-Temperature Collisions
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Michael Rowley
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Biochemical Investigations of Protein Arginine N-Methyltransferase 2
Monday, 8 April 2024 - 2:00pm - 1416, Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Analise Katrina Hofmann
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Proteome-wide Localization Analysis of Yeast with Defects in Endoplasmic Reticulum-Plasma Membrane Contact Sites & Undergraduate Biology Students' Attitudes Towards Biology and Math
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Taixiang Wang
Department: Oncology
Combining DNA-PK Inhibitors with DNA-Damaging Therapies Expands the Targeted Cell Population to Kill More Cancer Cells but also Elevates Toxicities in Normal Cells
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Xi Laura Cang
Department: Computer Science
From Devices to Data and Back Again: A Tale of Computationally Modelling Affective Touch
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Sebastiano Montante
Department: Bioinformatics
Machine Learning Algorithms in Flow Cytometry Data Analysis
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - 9:00am - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Cynthia Shaheen
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Studies of Supercoiling-Induced Denaturation within DNA Plasmids Using Single-Molecule Convex Lens-Induced Confinement Microscopy
Wednesday, 10 April 2024 - 11:00am - G221, Koerner Pavillion, 2211 Wesbrook Mall
Marie-Soleil Smith
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Cellular and Mitochondrial Toxicity of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Models
Wednesday, 10 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Xinyao Fan
Department: Statistics
Dependence Modeling in High Dimensions with Latent Variables
Thursday, 11 April 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Marta Bergamo
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Macroaggregated Albumin Particles as Lung-Targeting Drug Delivery System
Friday, 12 April 2024 - 10:00am - Room 200
Behnam Karimi
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Virtual Blade Machining
Friday, 12 April 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Jose Pablo Pinilla Gomez
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Context-aware Minor-embedding for Quantum Annealing Processors
Monday, 15 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Carlos Antonio Colin Moreno
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
"Barroco Cuántico. Transcendencia Barrosa y Obsesión Barroca"
Tuesday, 16 April 2024 - 9:30am - 2004, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Chung-Yu Tai
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Model-Based Spindle Health Monitoring
Wednesday, 17 April 2024 - 12:30pm - 3200, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd
Anna Cho
Department: Botany
Evolution and Diversity of Stramenopiles
Wednesday, 17 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Menglin Zhou
Department: Statistics
Extreme Value Modelling with Application to Reverse Stress Testing
Thursday, 18 April 2024 - 12:30pm - 5104, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Geena Littel
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
A Collection of Earthquake Studies Throughout Western British Columbia
Thursday, 18 April 2024 - 3:00pm - Zoom
Gun Ho Oh
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Modelling Cloud-Environment Interactions During Moist Convection: A Numerical Study of Boundary-Layer Cloud Dynamics
Friday, 19 April 2024 - 12:00pm - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Emel Islamzada
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Deformability Based Cell Sorting Enabling Quality Control of Donated Red Blood Cells
Monday, 22 April 2024 - 12:30pm - 424, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall
Hallie Dau
Department: Population and Public Health
The Social and Economical Impacts of Cervical Cancer on Women and Children in Uganda
Tuesday, 23 April 2024 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Kirk Ashley King
Department: Music
Chasing the Ghost of Kadekaru
Thursday, 25 April 2024 - 1:00pm - V2 - 222, Clinical Support, 948 29th Avenue Bikeway
Li Qing Wang
Department: MD/PhD Program
Epidemiological and Genetic Approaches to Explore Risk Factors For Pre-Eclampsia
Friday, 26 April 2024 - 11:00am - 350, MacMillan, 2357 Main Mall
Erin Bridget Ryan
Department: Applied Animal Biology
Impediments to and Possibilities for Respectful Human-Animal Relationships in Agriculture
Monday, 29 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Claudio Moller de Freitas
Department: Music
My Madness for Soprano and Small Orchestra
Monday, 29 April 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Maryam Vaseghi-Shanjani
Department: MD/PhD Program
Characterizing the Molecular and Clinical Impact of Two Novel Human Inborn Errors of Immunity Caused by Defects in IKZF2 and ZBTB7B
Thursday, 2 May 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Anh Khoa Vo
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Racial Differences in Pain-Related Health Outcomes and Healthcare Participation
Friday, 3 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Ihoghosa Iyamu
Department: Population and Public Health
Promoting Equitable Access to Digital Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infection Testing Interventions in British Columbia, Canada
Tuesday, 7 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jvala Singh (Sukhdeep) Sembi
Department: Asian Studies
The Splendor of Several Suns: the Gurpratap Suraj Granth and Sikh Intellectual Tradition in the Early 19th Century
Wednesday, 8 May 2024 - 12:00pm - 316, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive
Kushank Bajaj
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Beyond Borders: Assessing Climate Risks in Globalized Food Systems
Friday, 10 May 2024 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Tram Van Giang May Luu
Department: Psychology
Social Values and Social Motivations as Vulnerability Factors for Excessive Acquisition