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.
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 9:00am - 1330, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Wenjun Deng
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Analysis of Talin-Mediated Linkage to Actin in Cell-ECM Adhesion in Mice
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 9:00am - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 E Mall
Djihane Damoo
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Unravelling the Ustilago Maydis-Maize Interaction: Insights into Nutrient Acquisition and Effector Function
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 9:30am - Zoom
Bethany Ee
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
An Exploration of Parents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Their Experiences with Raising Children with ADHD
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 11:00am - D324, Buchanan Building Block D, 1866 Main Mall
Steven Diggin
Department: Philosophy
How to Improvise: A Philosophical Account of the Nature, Scope and Limits of Improvisational Agency
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Md Belal Hossain
Department: Population and Public Health
Harnessing the Power of Causal Inference and Predictive Analytics for Survival Outcomes with Health Administrative Data: Applications to Tuberculosis Research
Monday, 17 March 2025 - 2:00pm - 1312, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Sarah Dada
Department: Bioinformatics
Use of Long-Read Sequencing for Variant Detection and Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 9:00am - 1220/1230, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, 818 W10th Ave
Katlyn Richardson
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Granzyme K: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Psoriasis
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
BENJAMIN HERTWIG
Department: English Language and Literatures
Twenty Years of War: Memory, Militarism, Remembrance, and Two Suicide Bombings
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Jiaying Zhu
Department: Forestry
Understanding and Exploration of Cellulose Nanofibrils-Water Interaction for the Application in Smart Responsive Materials
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 2:30pm - 108, West Mall Swing Space (SWNG), 2175 West Mall
Sean Vanbergen
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Studies of Ultracold Neutron Dynamics and Systematic Effects for the TUCAN EDM Experiment
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 4:00pm - 1312, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Colton Strong
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Development of Genetically Modified Platelets for Therapeutic and Research Applications
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Bowornnan Chantapakul
Department: Food, Nutrition & Health
A Bacteriophage-Based Control System for Stem Gall Disease of Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium Corymbosum) Caused by Agrobacterium Tumefaciens
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 9:00am - 121, Totem Fields Studios, 2613 West Mall
Gloria Mellesmoen
Department: Linguistics
The Grammar of Salish Reduplication
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Sun Ryung Park
Department: Political Science
Race to Go Green: Three Pathways in Green Industrial Revolution
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 9:00am - 3200, Biological Sciences Building. 6270 University Boulevard
Yi Xue Na
Department: Botany
The Diversity and Evolution of Apicomplexan and Apicomplexan-Like Parasites
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 10:00am - 101, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Jennifer Kim
Department: Neuroscience
Harnessing Novel Tools to Explore Transcriptomic Patterns that Shape Microgilal Morphology
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Xueya Lu
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The Detection and Quantification of Reactivity in Ultramafic Rocks, Minerals, and Mine Waste for Carbon Dioxide Removal via Carbon Mineralization
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Loay Al-Salehi
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Neck Muscle and Intervertebral Dynamics During Impending Headfirst Impacts in Rollover Crashes
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Adrian Grzedowski
Department: Chemistry
Surface Engineering of DNA SAMs and Nano-Structures for FRET Based DNA Biosensors
Thursday, 20 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Mrinmoy Chakraborty
Department: Mechanical Engineering
An Integrated Indoor-Outdoor Assessment of the Sources and Impacts of Air Pollution in Rural India: Linking Low-Cost Measurement, Modelling and Impact Assessment
Thursday, 20 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Nicholas Michelson
Department: Neuroscience
Methods to Evaluate Mouse Dorsal Cortical Function during Social and Innate Behaviors
Thursday, 20 March 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Jialing Zhang
Department: Mathematics
Partial Differential Equations with Combined Nonlinearities and Partial Differential Equations on Conical Singular Manifolds
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 9:00am - 5104, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Yayla Sezginer
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Autonomous Measurement of Phytoplankton Physiology and Productivity Using Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Roger John
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Exploring Indigenous Concepts of Well-Being with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 9:30am - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 E Mall
Braydon Black
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Glutathione Metabolism Modulates Redox Homeostasis and Virulence in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus Neoformans
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Morgan Westcott
Department: Educational Studies
Polytechnic Instructors as First Responders to Student Crises: Centring Faculty Voices
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Keila Stark
Department: Zoology
From Metabolic Scaling to Metacommunities: Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Community Thermal Ecology
Friday, 21 March 2025 - 1:30pm - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 E Mall
Katherine Donald
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
The Role of Breastmilk IgA in Infant Gut Microbiota and Immune Development
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Mobina Mobaraki
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Vision-Based Seam Tracking and Multi-Modal Defect Detection in GMAW Fillet Welding Using Artificial Intelligence
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 11:00am - 6124, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Ndeye Khady Thiombane
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chemogenomic Screening of Topoisomerase Inhibitors: Mechanistic Insights and Cellular Interactions
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Xinglong Li
Department: Statistics
Approximate Prosterior Inference for Bayesian Nonparametrics with Guarantees
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 12:30pm - 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Lindsey Abdale
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Carbonatitic Magmatism and Metamorphic Processes in the Monashee Complex, British Columbia, Canada: Thermotectonic Evolution of the Western North Americann Margin from the Neoproterozic to the Paleogene
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 1:00pm - Room 203
Sharon Engbrecht
Department: English Language and Literatures
Challenging Romance's Story of Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Women's Critical-Romance Novels
Monday, 24 March 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Naoki Takemura
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Male Understanding of Motherhood in Japan—Rereading Okonogi Keigo’s Ajase Complex Theory
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
David Black
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Bilateral Human Teleoperation: A Mixed Reality System for Remote Ultrasound
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Xiaoxu Ding
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Understanding the Use of Mobile Health (mHealth) to Increase Mental Health Care Service Access for Youth
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 - 9:30am - Room 203
Jun Jie Zhu
Department: Mathematics
On Applications of Oscillatory Integrals
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Timothy Wong
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Applying Super Resolution Microscopy to Investigate Caveolin and Clathrin Endocytosis
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Kristen Blowes
Department: Civil Engineering
Post-earthquake Recovery Performance of Modern Buildings and the Development of Recovery-Based Seismic Design Provisions
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 12:00pm - Zoom
Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzun
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Performing Gender through Contested Waters: Women+ Water Activists in Chilean Hydrosocial Struggles
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Elaheh Shenasa
Department: Oncology
Tissue-Based Methods to Assess Immune Biomarkers within the Tumor Microenvironment on Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded Clinical Materials
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 1:00pm - 237, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 E Mall
Anne-Sophie Sack
Department: Neuroscience
T-Type Calcium Channel CAV3.2 Modulates Dentate Gyrus Granule Cell Excitability and Plasticity in a Maturational Stage Dependent Manner
Thursday, 27 March 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Caleb Suan
Department: Mathematics
Deformations of Special Structures in Dimensions 6 and 7
Friday, 28 March 2025 - 9:00am - 354, Friedman Building, 2177 Westbrook Mall
Tanvi Puri
Department: Neuroscience
Past Reproductive Experience and Estradiol Affect Brain Health in Middle-Aged Females
Friday, 28 March 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Samira Shirvani
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Thermo-catalytic Applications of Two-Dimensional Metal Carbides: (De) Hydrogenation of Liquid Hydrogen Carriers, CH4 Dry Reforming, and CO2 Hydrogenation
Friday, 28 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Carlos Colin Moreno
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Barroco Cuántico. Transcendencia Barrosa y Obsesión Barroca
Friday, 28 March 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203
Arvin Tashakori
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Secure and Scalable Human Motion Understanding Using Machine Learning-Powered Smart Sensing Textile
Friday, 28 March 2025 - 4:00pm - A4-187, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, W 28th Ave
Phyu Mar Soe
Department: Population and Public Health
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Special Populations
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Spencer Anderson
Department: Medical Genetics
Pharmacogenomic and Machine Learning Insights for the Prediction of L-Asparaginase-Induced Hypersensitivity in Pediatric Cancer
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 10:30am - Zoom
Vinoth Ganapathiraman
Department: Civil Engineering
A Laboratory Study of Internal Instability in Widely Graded Sand and Gravel
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Alexandra Jewell
Department: Philosophy
A New Framework for Self-Disorders: Anxiety as a Case Study
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 12:30pm - 121, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive
Benjamin Cox
Department: Mining Engineering
Natural Capital Optimization of Carbon, Water, and Tailings in Mining and Metals
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 1:00pm - Room 203
Kinley Gillette
Department: Philosophy
A Political Approach to Scientific Authority
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 1:00pm - ANGU 335, Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall
Fernanda Brito
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Clean Energy: An Alternative Proton Exchange Membrane Using Sustainable and Earth-Friendly Components
Monday, 31 March 2025 - 3:30pm - 5104, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Katrin Steinthorsdottir
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Feasibility of in-situ Carbon Mineralization in Serpentinite via Shallow Injection, British Columbia, Canada
Tuesday, 1 April 2025 - 12:00pm - Zoom
Steffen Lahrsen
Department: Forestry
Digital Transformation in Timber Harvesting: An Automated Framework for Productivity and Performance Monitoring in Whole-Tree Harvesting
Tuesday, 1 April 2025 - 1:00pm - 14th floor meeting room, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 W 10th Ave
Afsaneh Panahi
Department: Oncology
Exploring the Role of APOBEC3B Cytidine Deaminase in High-Risk Multiple Myeloma
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 9:00am - SHY F414, Shaughnessy Building, BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital, 4500 Oak Street
Dwayne Tucker
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Clinical and Biomarker Predictors of Pain-Related Outcomes After Endometriosis Surgery
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Christine Yu
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
The Help-Seeking Process for Parents of Children with Anxiety: A Grounded Theory
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 10:00am - 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 950 West 28th Avenue
Enes Ergin
Department: Bioinformatics
Computational Interrogation of Proteoform Dynamics in Pediatric Cancer
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 12:30pm - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Adel Yavarinasab
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Electrochemical Insights into Bacterial Physiology: Electron Transfer and Metabolite Detection
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Juliane Dmyterko
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice Through the Lens of Lived Autistic Experience
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 2:00pm - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue
JUNBUM IM
Department: Oncology
Targeting O-GLCNAC Transferase (OGT) as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for EVI1-Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Enhancing Mitochondrial Priming for Improved Outcomes
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 - 3:00pm - 107, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, 2202 Main Mall
Natasha Klasios
Department: Zoology
Ecological Impacts of Microplastic Pollution to Temperate Freshwater Zooplankton Under Realistic Exposure Scenarios
Thursday, 3 April 2025 - 9:00am - 2004, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Sina Tavasoli
Department: Civil Engineering
Autonomous Indoor Post-Disaster Inspections Using Micro Aerial Vehicles
Thursday, 3 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Lee Iskander
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Gender Normativity in Teacher Education: A Critical Participatory Action Research Study with Trans and Gender Nonconforming Preservice Teachers in Canada
Thursday, 3 April 2025 - 1:00pm - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Jinfang Li
Department: Neuroscience
Organization and Processing of Gustatory Information in the Drosophila Brain
Friday, 4 April 2025 - 10:30am - Zoom
Sarah Lynch
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Unpacking the Grammar of Test and Measures: The Hidden Complexity in Psychological Test Items and its Association with Item Responses
Friday, 4 April 2025 - 10:30am - 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall
Kiran Sunar
Department: Asian Studies
The River between Sohni and Mahiwal: Fluid Ecologies of Genre, Land, and Gender in a Punjabi Narrative Tradition
Friday, 4 April 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Faramarz Jabbarvaziri
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advanced Grant-Free NOMA and Hybrid Beamforming Techniques for 5G and Beyond
Friday, 4 April 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Juan Carlos Hernaiz Leonardo
Department: Population and Public Health
Design and Validation of a Sinonasal Endoscopic Score (SiNES) for Chronic Rhinosinusitis Outcome Assessment
Monday, 7 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Christopher Lee
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Understanding, Stability, Regulation, and Recognition within the Cryptococcus Neoformans Capsule
Monday, 7 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203
Verena Rossa-Roccor
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Academics as Activists: Exploring and Building Political Knowledge Mobilization Capacities to Influence Climate Policy
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Ariel Hoi Ching Ko
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Maladaptive Parenting and Insecure Attachment on the Development of Perfectionism in Children and Adolescents: A 2-Year Longitudinal Mediation Analysis
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Laura Trainini
Department: Music
Music Embodiment in Flute Practice and Performance
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - 4:00pm - 2020, Fred Kaiser, 2332 Main Mall
Hany Abdelraheem
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Interference Cancellation Circuits for Full-Duplex Low-Power Radios
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Ryan Roemer
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Layer Dependent Electronic Structure and Magnetic Transition Evolution in Two-Dimensional Ferromagnetic van der Waals Films
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Federico Ricca
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Local Political Economy
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 - 9:00am -
Ace Chan
Department: Population and Public Health
Understanding Cancer-Causing Substance Use among Trans and Gender Diverse Communities in Canada
Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 9:00am - X836, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Vasileios Lioutas
Department: Computer Science
Towards Realistic Controllable Driving Simulators
Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Gahyung Lee
Department: Statistics
Statistical Models that are Known or Suspected to be Partially Identified: Issues of Parameterization, Computation, and Software Development
Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Paolo Andre Sosa Villagarcia
Department: Political Science
Authoritarian Legacies and Far-Right Normalization: Peru in Comparative Perspective
Monday, 14 April 2025 - 9:00am - 350, HR MacMillan Building, 2357 Main Mall
Lexis Ly
Department: Applied Animal Biology
Investigation of Owner to Animal Shelters through Data Practices, Self-Rehoming Outcomes, and Community Surrender Pathways
Monday, 14 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Tingting Zhao
Department: Chemistry
Chemical Pattern Recognition in Metabolomics and Exposomics by Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning
Monday, 14 April 2025 - 3:00pm - James Hogg Conference Centre, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard St
Firoozeh Vosoogh Gerayeli
Department: Experimental Medicine
Integrating Next-Generation Sequencing in Endophenotyping of Airway Diseases: A Path toward Personalized Medicine
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Elliot Cheung
Department: Mathematics
Towards a Discretization of Chern-Simons Theory
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Jesse Donald Fox
Department: Neuroscience
Characterization of the Parkinson's Disease DNAJC13 p.N855S Mutation in a Knock-in Mouse Model
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Taha Ahmadi Vostakolaei
Department: Educational Studies
The Future Folk: Reconceptualizations and Meditations on Culture, Psyche, and Revolt
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Kelsea Perry
Department: Sociology
(Micro)bial Collectives: A More-Than-Human Sociology of COVID-19
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kaitlin Sullivan
Department: Neuroscience
Identifying and Manipulating Cell Types Involved in Rodent Fear Memory
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 2:00pm - Room 203
Kate Huang
Department: Experimental Medicine
Connecting the Clinic to the Bench: Modelling the Functional Effects of a Titin Variant Associated with Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias
Thursday, 17 April 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Kirk King
Department: Music
Chasing the Ghost of Kadekaru
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Mehmet Saglam
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Investigating Educators' Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Agency in Constructing an Intelligence-Friendly Classroom
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 12:00pm - 224, Biodiversity Research Centre, 2212 Main Mall
Cassandra Elphinstone
Department: Botany
Arctic Plant Genomics: Biogeography, Comparative Genomics, DNA Methylation, Gene Expression, and Centromeres
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mirta Roncagalli
Department: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Neohumanismo: Una Propuesta de Regeneración Ética y Sociopolítica en el Ensayo Español del Siglo XXI
Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 3:00pm - Room 203
Adam Martens
Department: Mathematics
Ricci Flow: Curvature Concentration and Sobolev Bounds
Tuesday, 20 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Lindsey Snyder
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Unboxing Object-Based Learning: Exploring Teachers' Object-Based Pedagogies with Museum Kits in Elementary Classrooms