Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Exams held via Zoom are by invitation only and are listed here for information.
Monday, 27 March 2023 - 9:00am
Leila Fazel Todd
Department: Forestry
Planning for Public Parks to Meet Urban Forest Canopy Objectives: A Canadian Perspective
Monday, 27 March 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Anne Kim
Department: Zoology
On the Role of Physiological Acidosis in Hibernating Rodents
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 - 1:00pm
Nguyen Le Tam Nhan
Department: Zoology
Functional Characterization of the Nuclear Localization Signals of Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein and the Nucleolar Protein 14
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 - 1:00pm - 2916, Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, 2424 Main Mall
Jonathan David Reich
Department: Forestry
Combining Air Sampling and Molecular Methods to Monitor Airborne Fungal Plant Pathogens
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 10:00am
Patrick Klaiber
Department: Psychology
Engaging in and Responding to Daily Positive Events: Roles of Personality and Age
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Fiona Louise Beaty
Department: Zoology
From Marine Snails to Marine Spatial Planning: The Science of Human Impacts and Relationships with Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 12:30pm
Assaf Yogev
Department: Kinesiology
Measuring Muscle Oxygenation in Endurance Sports with Wearable NIRS - from Validation to Application
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 1:00pm - 416, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), 2202 Main Mall
Juan Diego Martinez
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Inequality in Global Access to Food and its Implications for Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 4:00pm - 4018, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall
Rafiuzzaman Mohammad
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
An Observation-Based Runtime Configuration Framework for the Front-End Network Edge
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Anna Maslany
Department: Psychology
The Influence of Valence States on the Scope of Visual Attention
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 9:00am
Ka Ming Nip
Department: Bioinformatics
Transcriptome Assembly and Visualization for RNA-Sequencing Data
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:30pm - 14th Floor meeting room, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 W 10th Ave
James Wells
Department: Oncology
Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen Ubiquitination as a Central Regulator of Transcriptional Stress
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 9:00am
Ke Zhang
Department: Psychology
Chasing in Online Gambling and its Practical Application in Gambling Intervention
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Estefania Alejandra Milla-Moreno
Department: Forestry
An Assessment of Native Chilean Woody Plants for Phytoremediation of Copper-Contaminated Sites
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 12:30pm - 335, Allard Hall, 1822 East Mall
Grace Elizabeth Nosek
Department: Allard School of Law
Climate Discourse Polluted: A Cumulative Effects Analysis of the Fossil Fuel Industry's Tactics Influence Public Discourse
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 1:00pm - 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Hannah Sarah Gatz-Miller
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Exploring the Role of Model Complexity in Soil-Plant Reactive Transport Simulations
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 1:30pm
Yukiya Saito
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Development of Statistical Tools for Studies of the Rapid Neutron Capture Process
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 2:00pm - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
John Edgar
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Engineering the Thymic Niche for T-Cell Differentiation from Stem Cells
Monday, 3 April 2023 - 9:30am - 3335, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Karan Khanna
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nanoscale Flow Cytometry for Extracellular Vesicle Analysis and Isolation
Monday, 3 April 2023 - 12:00pm - Conference Room, UBC Hospital - Koerner Pavilion, 2211 Wesbrook Mall
Lucero Guadalupe Aceves Serrano
Department: Neuroscience
Neuromodulatory Effects of Theta Burst Stimulation, a Molecular and Functional Assessment
Monday, 3 April 2023 - 3:00pm - 5104, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Maryam Zarrinderakht
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Modelling the Propagation of Crevasses and Calving in Ice Shelves
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 - 9:00am - E311, Chemistry Building, 2036 Main Mall
Jade Victoria Poisson
Department: Chemistry
Surface-Initiated Polymerization for the Preparation of Organic Electronic Materials
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 - 2:00pm - Room 200
Bonnie Joline Tulloch
Department: Information
Do the Ends Justify the Memes? Exploring the Relationship between Youth, Internet Memes, and Digital Citizenship
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 - 2:30pm - 435, Henry Angus (ANGU) , 2053 Main Mall
Shipei Xing
Department: Chemistry
Towards Accurate Compound Annotation in Mass Spectrometry-Based Global Metabolomics
Wednesday, 5 April 2023 - 2:30pm - SCRF 1023, Neville Scarfe (SCRF), 2125 Main Mall
Adam Vladimir Dvorak
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Advances in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Myelin
Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 9:00am
Colin Charles Dring
Department: Agricultural Sciences
Agricultural Planning, Justice, and Municipal Governance - An Examination of Planning Conflicts, Pluralism, and Complexity in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 9:00am - 4001, Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall
Cheng Chen
Department: Forestry
Mammal Community Responses to Human Disturbance: Insights from Global Camera Trap Surveys
Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Casey Ray Collins
Department: Asian Studies
Walking in the Founders' Footsteps: Hagiography and Devotion in Shinnyo-en, a Japanese New Religion
Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 12:30pm - 4001, Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall
Cindy Meliza Hurtado Martinez
Department: Forestry
Habitat Suitability and Landscape Connectivity for Carnivores in a South American Biodiversity Hotspot
Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 1:30pm
Kimberley Ann MacNeil
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Supporting Teachers' Professional Learning through Collaborative Inquiry: A Case Study
Tuesday, 11 April 2023 - 9:30am - Room 200
Sophie MacDonald
Department: Mathematics
Gibbs Measures and Factor Codes in Symbolic Dynamics
Tuesday, 11 April 2023 - 12:30pm
Marney Louise Jones
Department: Educational Studies
A Humanities-Based Pedagogy of Death: Apocalyptic Prose as Public Reimbursement Collapse Competency
Tuesday, 11 April 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Sarah Rosemary Morris
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Measure Myelin: Orientation Dependence and Application to Spinal Cord Injury
Wednesday, 12 April 2023 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Rui Zhong
Department: Sauder School of Business
Reducing the Harmful Influence of Workplace Aggression: An Integrative Review, a Meta-Analysis, and an Empirical Study
Wednesday, 12 April 2023 - 3:00pm - 6124, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building (PHRM). 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Rui Shang
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor B Effects Cardiac Substrate Utilization by Regulating Lipoprotein Lipase
Friday, 14 April 2023 - 12:00pm
Dina Badawy
Department: Materials Engineering
Fabrication and Characterization of Smart Yarn for Real-Time Mechanical Sensing Applications
Friday, 14 April 2023 - 1:00pm
Daniel Christopher Louie
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Development of Polarization Speckle Methods for Clinical Melanoma Evaluation
Friday, 14 April 2023 - 1:30pm
Renee Michelle Diemert
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Exploring International Baccalaureate Students' Experiences of Community-Based Learning: An Interpretive Case Study
Friday, 14 April 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Min Jun Jo
Department: Mathematics
Inviscid Damping Phenomena in Some Fluid Models
Monday, 17 April 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Sophie Nitoslawski
Department: Forestry
Smarter Forests for Smarter Cities? An Exploration of Digital and Smart Technologies in Urban Forest Management
Monday, 17 April 2023 - 9:00am - 350, MacMillan, 2357 main mall
Anna Ratuski
Department: Applied Animal Biology
Environmental Enrichment for Rats and Mice Housed in Laboratories
Tuesday, 18 April 2023 - 9:30am - 350, MacMillan, 2357 main mall
Bianca Ravani Cecato
Department: Agricultural Sciences
Essays on Environmental Economics: Environmental Regulations and Climate Change Adaption
Wednesday, 19 April 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
Henry Walsgrove
Department: Chemistry
Modelling the Polymerization of 1-Phosphaisoprene: Explorations of the Synthesis and Reactivity of 1-Phosphabutadienes
Monday, 24 April 2023 - 9:00am - D215, Chemistry Building, 2036 Main Mall
Madeleine Deem
Department: Chemistry
Application of Time Course-Based Kinetic Methods to Complex Catalytic Systems
Tuesday, 25 April 2023 - 12:30pm
Kevin Bradley Dsouza
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Representation Learning Strategies for the Epigenome and Chromatin Structure Using Recurrent Neural Models
Thursday, 27 April 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Qidi Zhang
Department: Mathematics
The Construction of Blow-Up Solutions for Some Evolution Equations
Monday, 8 May 2023 - 9:30am - 288, Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall
Rafael Haenel
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Collective Modes of the Superconducting Condensate
Monday, 8 May 2023 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Mohammad Reza Fazlali
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Analytical Modeling of Shear Localization in Machining Processes and Its Effects on the Tool-Chip Interface
Tuesday, 16 May 2023 - 9:00am - Room 200
David Kyle Sutherland
Department: Sociology
Identity Work Across the Gender Spectrum: Negotiations of Membership, Healthcare, and Resilience in Transgender and Nonbinary Populations