Defences are currently being held virtually via Zoom, and audiences are by invitation. Dates and times are posted for information only.
Friday, 23 July 2021 - 9:00am
Kevin Jin-Huey Voon
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Modelling Contributing Factors to Heat Trapping in Carbon Nanotube Forests
Friday, 23 July 2021 - 9:00am
Sara Nawaz
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Beyond Naturalness? Social Dimensions of Gene Editing in Agriculture
Friday, 23 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Chanel Carmen La
Department: Chemistry
Design and Development of Macromolecular Polyanion Inhibitors (MPIs) and Their Use as Antithrombotics
Friday, 23 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Christopher Andrew Basham
Department: Population and Public Health
Tuberculosis Survival Health
Friday, 23 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Veronique Gisele LeBlanc
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Genomic Characterization of Inter- and Intra-Tumour Heterogeneity in Primary Adult Diffuse Gliomas and Associated Disease Models
Monday, 26 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Adrian Lou
Department: English
Multimodal Similes: Toward a Cognitive Understanding of Similative Meaning
Monday, 26 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Michael Karpinski-Leydier
Department: Mechanical Engineering
A Machine Learning Approach to Rapidly Developing Models for Alternative and Multi-Source Energy Systems
Monday, 26 July 2021 - 1:00pm
Payel Ganguly
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Functionalization of Human Gene Variants in Drosophila
Monday, 26 July 2021 - 4:00pm
Fan Yang
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Topological Quantum Phase Transitions and Topological Quantum Criticality in Superfluids and Superconductors
Monday, 26 July 2021 - 4:00pm
Hila Behar
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Understanding the Diversity, Biochemistry, and Biological Role of EG16 Enzymes in the Context of Plant Evolution
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 9:00am
Michael Oppermann
Department: Computer Science
A Data-Driven Approach to Information Visualization
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 11:00am
Alice Kaye
Department: Bioinformatics
Approaches to Genome Analysis Through the Application of Graph Theory
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Catherine Margaret Haney
Department: Nursing
Abortion Nursing in Canada: 1960s to 1990s
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Chang Sheng-Huei Lin
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Peptidoglycan Binding By PGP2 and APE1 Determines Campylobacter Jejuni Helical Cell Shape
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 1:00pm
Evan William Bowness
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Food Sovereignty in the City: Urban Agrarianism and Agroecology in Canada and Brazil
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 - 2:00pm
Colin Andrew Hammond
Department: Experimental Medicine
Age-Associated Differences in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Proliferation Control
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 9:00am
Farshad Babaeijandaghi
Department: Experimental Medicine
Dissecting the Role of Innate Immunity in Muscle Regeneration
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 9:00am
Edmundo Alejandro Gonzalez Alvarado
Department: Music
Ferruccio Busoni's Use of the Sostenuto Pedal: Expansion of the Pedalling Technique
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 9:00am
Aaron Berk
Department: Mathematics
On LASSO Parameter Sensitivity
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 10:00am
Jennifer Catherine Leese
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Self-Managing with Physical Activity Wearables: Emerging Ethical Issues from the Perspectives of Persons Living with Arthritis
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Sarafa Adewale Iyaniwura
Department: Mathematics
Topics in the Asymptotic Analysis of Narrow Escape and Quorum-Sensing Behavior for PDE Models Inspired by Biological Applications
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Ho Yin Ho
Department: Statistics
Some Research Problems Under Finite Mixture Models
Thursday, 29 July 2021 - 9:00am
Sophia Mary Elizabeth Murphy
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Resilient Global Food Security and the World Trade Organization: Assessing Adaptive Governance
Thursday, 29 July 2021 - 9:00am
Luke Melo
Department: Chemistry
On the Functional Classification of Chemical and Biological Systems by the Acquisition and Multivariate Analysis of Optical, Spectroscopic, and Electronic Images
Thursday, 29 July 2021 - 9:00am
Amr Elsayed Ammar
Department: Experimental Medicine
The Anticancer Activity of Leech Saliva Extract and the Role of Protease Activated Receptor 1 (PAR-1) in Prostate Cancer
Thursday, 29 July 2021 - 9:00am
Amir Hossein Hadi Hosseinabadi
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
High Performance Optical Force Sensing - Design, Characterization and Integration in Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 9:00am
Adam Robert Vincent
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Poetic Inquiry: Current Approaches and Future Applications
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 9:00am
Luyao Ma
Department: Food, Nutrition & Health
Evolution of Antimicrobial-Resistat Campylobacter in Agri-Food Systems
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 9:30am
Zhengcheng He
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
BRCA1 Regulates the PLK1-Mediated Spindle Positioning Pathway That Promotes Luminal Features and May Suppress Tumorigenesis in Mammary Epithelial Cells
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 10:00am
Johanand Gilchrist
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Sediment Waves and the Gravitational Stability of Volcanic Jets: A New Framework for Eruption Classification
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Yuejian Liu
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Structure-Function Relationships of Uridine Diphosphate Glucuronosyltransferases (UGTS)
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 12:30pm
Pattharin Tangwaragorn
Department: Sauder School of Business
Persuasion Awareness in Online Settings: Antecedents, Consequences, and Transparency Mechanisms
Friday, 30 July 2021 - 2:00pm
Samuel Thomas Reed
Department: Political Science
The Atomic Public: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Citizen Deliberation, 1985-2020
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 9:00am
Arman Zaribafiyan
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Hybrid Quantum Computing - On the Role of Classical Computing in Scaling Up Quantum Computing
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 9:00am
Vibhuti Dhingra
Department: Sauder School of Business
Essays in Supply Chain and Project Management
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 9:00am
Chenying Yang
Department: Sauder School of Business
Decisions of Multinational Firms: Plant Location and Sourcing
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 9:00am
Haoning Cen
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Modulation of Muscle Cell Insulin Receptor Signaling, Transcription, and Trafficking by Insulin
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Tristan Hynes
Department: Neuroscience
Probing the Role of Dopamine at the Intersection of Addiction, Decision Making, and Sex
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Deborah Christine Good
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Timing Pulsars and Detecting Radio Transients with CHIME
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 9:00am
Daniel Di Benedetto
Department: Mathematics
Combinatorial Problems for Intervals, Fractal Sets and Tubes
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 9:00am
Jeremy Rochussen
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Characterizing the Spectrum of Stratified Pilot-Ignited Direct-Injection Natural Gas Combustion Regimes in an Optically-Accessible Engine
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 9:00am
Rebecca Kathleen Metcalfe
Department: Population and Public Health
Parent-Oriented Decision-Making in Pregnancy Hypertension
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 12:00pm
Yuyin Yi
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dysregulated Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 May Contribute to Early-Onset Preeclampsia by Regulating Extracellular Matrix and Adhesion Molecules at Maternal-Fetal Interface
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Nastaran Khazamipour
Department: Experimental Medicine
Oncofetal Chondroitin Sulfate as a Target in Solid Tumors
Thursday, 5 August 2021 - 9:00am
Parya Keyvani
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ionic Diodes Based on Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNC) and Related Rheological Studies
Thursday, 5 August 2021 - 9:00am
Jennifer Marianne Sankey
Department: Allard School of Law
Using Indigenous Legal Processes to Strengthen Indigenous Jurisdiction: Squamish Nation Land Use Planning and the Squamish Nation Assessment of the Woodfibre Liquefied Natural Gas Projects
Thursday, 5 August 2021 - 9:00am
Da Kang
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Time Series Econometrics and International Finance
Thursday, 5 August 2021 - 9:00am
Maj Sofie Oerum-Madsen
Department: Experimental Medicine
Regulation and Targeting of Chondroitin Sulfate in Pediatric Solid Tumors
Thursday, 5 August 2021 - 9:30am
Maria Cleveland
Department: Chemistry
Investigating Catalytic Diversity in Copper Radical Oxidases for Potential Bioproduct Applications
Friday, 6 August 2021 - 9:00am
Sandra Schinnerl
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
The Influence of Higher Education on Immigration Policy in Canada
Friday, 6 August 2021 - 9:00am
Edward Alexander George Belk
Department: Mathematics
The Local Trace Formula as a Motivic Identity
Monday, 9 August 2021 - 9:00am
Joon Seon Lee
Department: Botany
Gene Expression and Alternative Splicing Responses to Abiotic Stress in Sunflower and Canola
Monday, 9 August 2021 - 9:00am
Paul Jason Foth
Department: Chemistry
Development of Efficient Methods Incorporating Fluorinated Motifs in Organic Molecules
Monday, 9 August 2021 - 2:00pm
Zachary Witkower
Department: Psychology
The Action Unit Imposter: Head Position Influences Social Perceptions by Changing the Appearance of the Face
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 9:00am
Kwesi Yaro
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Understanding African Immigrant and Refugee Parents' Support for Their Children's Mathematics Learning in Canada
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Brody Frost
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Cellulosic Biomaterials: From Extraction to Biomedical Applications
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Jia Yi Mo
Department: Chemistry
Development of a Novel Radical Cyclization and New Synthetic Methods Utilizing Sulfur Fluoride Reagents
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 1:00pm
Artemij Voskobojnikov
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Towards Understanding and Improving the Crypto-Asset User Experience
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 1:00pm
Patrick Joseph Dubois
Department: Psychology
Integrating Overconfidence and Overclaiming: Exaggeration Harms Performance
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 4:00pm
Abiola Adetokunbo Adeniyi
Department: Dentistry
Exploring Strategies for Integrating Preventive Oral Care in Prenatal Health Care Services in British Columbia, Canada
Wednesday, 11 August 2021 - 9:00am
Shane James Timothy Balthazaar
Department: Experimental Medicine
Cardiac Consequences and Exercise Interventions Following Spinal Cord Injury in Humans
Wednesday, 11 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Patrick John Colp
Department: Computer Science
Security Through Isolation for Cloud and Mobile
Thursday, 12 August 2021 - 9:00am
Rishad Habib
Department: Sauder School of Business
Taking the Road Less Travelled: Two Essays on Encouraging Uncommon Prosocial Behaviors
Thursday, 12 August 2021 - 9:30am
Xin Ding
Department: Statistics
Improved Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Generation: Methods and Their Application in Knowledge Distillation
Friday, 13 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Alexandre Bernard Rivard
Department: Political Science
A House but Not a Home: The Determinants of Secessionist Party Emergence and Support in North American and Western Europe
Friday, 13 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Francesco D'Acierno
Department: Chemistry
Thermal Behavior of Cellulose Materials
Monday, 16 August 2021 - 9:00am
William Rees
Department: Experimental Medicine
Aberrant Intestinal Epithelial Cell Signalling Drives Inflammatory Responses to Bacterial Flagellin in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Monday, 16 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Nicole Gladish
Department: Medical Genetics
Associations of DNA Methylation with Adversity Throughout the Life Course
Wednesday, 18 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Ru Qi Yu
Department: Psychology
A Weighted Summation Framework for Conjunctive Predictions
Thursday, 19 August 2021 - 9:00am
Kaitlyn Michelle Jaffe
Department: Sociology
Participation Amidst Precarity: Medical Research Experiences Among People Who Use Drugs
Thursday, 19 August 2021 - 12:00pm
Itai Bavli
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
When Public Health Goes Wrong: The History and Ethics of Public Health Errors
Friday, 20 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Huiru Dong
Department: Population and Public Health
Substance Use Trajectories and Impacts of Drug Treatment Among People Who Use Illicit Drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Monday, 23 August 2021 - 9:00am
Jingwei Yun
Department: Chemistry
Ice Nucleating Particles in the Atmosphere: Laboratory and Field Studies
Monday, 23 August 2021 - 10:00am
Carmen Louise Bayly
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Engineering Mycobacterium tuberculosis PKS12 Towards Improved Polyketide Pathway Control
Tuesday, 24 August 2021 - 9:00am
Zipeng Liu
Department: Computer Science
Visualizing Multi-Level Structures in Data
Tuesday, 24 August 2021 - 4:00pm
Ryan Joseph Sprenger
Department: Zoology
The Conditional Nature of the Mammalian Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response: Effect of Age, State, and Temperature
Thursday, 26 August 2021 - 9:00am
Jonathan James Taggart
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
"Still Water, Who Knows You?": Counter-Mapping Traditional Knowledge and Ancestral Values in the Territory of Nak'azdli Whut'en
Friday, 27 August 2021 - 9:00am
Jay Jae Hee Park
Department: Experimental Medicine
An Adaptive Platform Trial to Assess Effectiveness of Multi-Component Interventions for Linear Growth of Sub-Saharan African Children During Complementary Feeding Period
Monday, 30 August 2021 - 12:30pm
Bruce Seyed-Morteza Moghtader
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Human Capital Theory of Education
Tuesday, 31 August 2021 - 2:30pm
Jianxiong Yang
Department: Chemistry
Exploring Extreme Limits of Chemical Bonding and Their Applications in Functional Materials Designs
Wednesday, 1 September 2021 - 12:30pm
Lili Shulman
Department: Community and Regional Planning
Walk and Thrive? The Importance of Low-Income Household Access to Mixed-Use Neighborhoods in the Metro Vancouver Region
Wednesday, 8 September 2021 - 12:30pm
Michelle Chakraborti
Department: Experimental Medicine
The Development of Peer Social Networks Among Families of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Attending Physical Activity Programs
Friday, 10 September 2021 - 9:00am
Amanda Fritzlan
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Attending to Relationship: A Narrative Inquiry Into Teachers' Experiences with Community, Place, and Indigenous Knowledge in Mathematics Education