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.
- 146, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Yi Ren
Computer Science
Learning Dynamics of Deep Learning - Force Analysis of Deep Neural Networks
- Zoom
Jennie Pearson
Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Building "Communities of Care" under Sex Work Criminalization and Beyond: Exploring How Mutual Aid Supports the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada
- 302-Q , Vancouver General Hospital, Leon Blackmore Pavilion, 855 W 12th Avenue
Annie Lalande
Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Improving Planetary Health through Healthcare Foodservices Transformation
- 220, Food, Nutrition and Health Bldg, 2205 East Mall
Cayla Boycott
Human Nutrition
The Impact of Polyphenols on the Interplay between Metabolism and Epigenetics in Liver Cancer
- Room 200
Marco Didone
Materials Engineering
Investigation of Low-Velocity Impact Damage in a Discontinuous Long Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
- Zoom
Nasim Peikazadi
Educational Studies
Identity and Power: Iranian Women’s Negotiations of Belonging in a Transnational Context
- Room 200
Amirhossein Tavakoli
Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Firms and Workers
- Zoom
Gideon Uchehara
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Techniques for Optimized Quantum Circuit Cutting, Scalable Qubit Reuse, and High-Fidelity Generalized Measurements
- Zoom
Robert Mahikwa
Educational Studies
Mentoring Indigenous Graduate Students into Indigenous Scholars
- Room 200
Mojgan Gitimoghaddam
Experimental Medicine
The Effects of Attending Community-Based Physical Activity Programs on Children and Youth with Neurodevelopment and/or Intellectual Disabilities/Disorders
- 202, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall
Alexandra Lukey
Population and Public Health
Evolving Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy
- 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Xuetong Shi
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sustainable Energy Solutions through Physically and Chemically Modified Wood
- James Hogg Conference Centre, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard St
Aileen Hsieh
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Investigating Heterogeneity of Small Airways Disease in Asthma
- Zoom
Sukhneet Kaur Dhillon
Biomedical Engineering
Characterization of Coiled Nylon Actuators and their Feasibility in an Active Textile for Lower Limb Compression
- Room 200
Bridget Barraclough
Zoology
Hoxb8 Lineage Tracing to Map Spinofugal Projections Related to Motor Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury
- 1416, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Irafasha Casmil
Genome Science and Technology
Expanding the Repertoire of Self-Amplifying RNA Vectors for Next Generation Gene Therapies
- 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Andrew Sharon
Microbiology and Immunology
Genetic and Environmental Regulation of Intestinal Antiviral Immunity
- Room 200
Gareth William Maddock Smith
Physics and Astronomy
Detecting Antihydrogen Annihilations in ALPHA-g for Measurement of Gravitational Free Fall
- Room 203
Jonathan Agyeman
Statistics
Sequential Monte Carlo - EM Algorithm for Disease Transmission Models
- 3200, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd
Jessica Hancock
Botany
Bioactive Lipid Transport and Cellulose Nanomaterial Isolation: Insights into Cannabis sativa L. Bioproduct Potential
- Room 200
Ilke Geladi
Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Understanding Ecological, Evolutionary, and Social Dynamics of Birds, Farmers and the Agricultural Landscape of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos
- Room 200
Yiling Tang
Kinesiology
Moodmover: The Development of an App-Based Behavioural Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity Among People With Depression
- 288, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Simin Mirzaei
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Visual Quality Enhancement of Low-Dose Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Images
- Zoom
Elise Chu
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Understanding Curriculum as Play: Transdisciplinarity, Spirituality, and Consciousness
- Room 200
Sarah Smith-Tripp
Forestry
Post-fire Conifer Recovery and Associated Ecological Drivers across Large Extents Assessed from Satellite and Field Observations
- Room 200
Ian Hill
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Long-Term Reliability Monitoring and Qualification Strategies for Safety Critical Sub-Nanometre Semiconductors
- 1203, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Bldg, 6250 Applied Science Ln
Biswajeet Rath
Mechanical Engineering
A Fully Eulerian Phase-Field Framework for Contact in Multiphase Fluid–Structure Interaction
- Room 200
Sishir Subedi
Bioinformatics
Computational Methods for the Analysis of Large-Scale Single-Cell Data
- Room 200
Atharva Dilip Korde
Mathematics
Some Invariants for Surfaces with an Automorphism
- Zoom
Ugur Meric Dikbas
Experimental Medicine
Structural and Biochemical Characterization of HOXB13 a Prostate-Specific Transcription Factor
- Room 200
Po Yuan Fu
Genome Science and Technology
Untangling Sources of DNA Methylation Variability in the Context of Developmental and Rare Diseases
- Room 203
Pablo Gonzalez Moctezuma
Forestry
Big Policies for Small-Scale Farmers: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Coverage and Environmental Impact of the Sembrando Vida Initiative in Mexico
- Room 200
Emma Cooke
Forestry
Linking Fish Injury, Fishing Practices, and Angler Perspectives in Recreational Marine Capture-and-Release Pacific Salmon Fisheries
- Zoom
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Anthropology
Xaayda kil ga sk’aadGada daas llGaayGa sda (Language Learning from the Ember Carriers): Elder Wisdom and Family Language Transmission in Haida Language Revitalization
- Zoom
Everly Jazi
Forestry
Natural Space and Mental Health: Who Benefits?
- 4223, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd
Carolyn Morris
Zoology
The Independent and Interactive Effects of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), Major Salt Ions (Na+, Ca2+) or Cu and pH on Osmoregulatory Processes of the Fish Gill
- Room 200
Lara Sarlak
Anthropology
Disposing the Displaced: The Violent Governance of Waste and Recycling in Istanbul
- Room 203
Rajneesh Bains
Chemistry
Discovery, Characterization, and Engineering of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
- 308A, Frank Forward Building, 6350 Stores Rd
Shaun Cooke
Materials Engineering
FAST: An Efficient Semi-Analytical Thermal Model for Part-Scale Simulation and Beam Trajectory Planning in Powder Bed Fusion
- Room 200
Jack Hughes
Mathematics
Numerical Bifurcation Study of a Mass Conserved Reaction-Diffusion Model for Actin Waves: Unravelling Motility Modes of Cells
- Room 203
Kumar Pankaj Gupta
Neuroscience
Open-Source Real-Time Feedback System for Shaping Cortical and Behavioral Motor Dynamics in Mice Reveal Altered Cortical Networks and Behavior with Closed-Loop Training
- Buchanan Penthouse (501), Buchanan, 1866 Main Mall
Kousaku Yui
Philosophy
Socio-Functionalism: A Theory of Persons and Selves
- Zoom
Daniel Rojas Lozano
Political Science
Strategic Concessions: Elites, Redistribution, and Social Stability in Latin America
- Zoom
Sarah Wheeler
Cell & Developmental Biology
Functional Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury: Remyelination as a Therapeutic Target in Aging
- Room 200
Brett Collinge
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Integrating Molecular Approaches to Advance the Diagnostic Framework of Aggressive B-Cell Lymphomas
- 14th floor meeting room, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 W 10th Ave
LIAM MACPHEE
Oncology
Exploring the Role of MicroRNA-204 in KMT2A-MLLT3 Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Room 200
Jill Morris
Curriculum and Pedagogy
A Curriculum of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion's Saturated Phenomena in the Classroom
- Room 200
Erin Egeland
Educational Studies
Same Deck of Cards, Different Shuffle: Conceptualizing Financial Literacy Education in the B.C. K-12 Curriculum, 1988-2018
- Room 200
Lok Yi Wong
Social Work
Exploring the Use of Formal Support Services by Chinese People Living with Dementia: An Institutional Ethnography
- Zoom
Dalia Alghamdi
Bioinformatics
Introduction of Omics Metadata into Biobanking Ontology
- Room 200
Ziyue Zhang
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rheology Aging and Adhesion to Aminated Polyolefins
- 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Shane O'Neill
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Role of Transient Pore Pressures and Effective Stresses in Progressive Slope Failure
- 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 950 West 28th Avenue
Tariq Bhat
Cell & Developmental Biology
Evaluating Targeted Drug Therapies for Pediatric Tumors Using the Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM) Xenograft Model
- 5018, Biodiversity Research Centre, 2212 Main Mall
Penelope Kahn
Zoology
Genetic Mechanisms and Fitness Consequences of Rapid Evolution in Severe and Complex Metal-Contaminated Environments: Evolutionary Rescue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Sreenath Raghunath
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Development of Sustainable Cement Composites: Understanding the Effect of Cellulosic Additives and Waste Biomass
- Room 200
Kennedy Joanne Borle
Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Investigating Unmet Need for Clinical Genetic Services in Canada
- Room 200
Fiza Arshad
Neuroscience
Audiovisual Cues and Immersion across Gambling and Sports: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives
- Zoom
Simangele Mabena
Language and Literacy Education
Teaching and Learning Together: A Multiple-Case Study of D/deaf and Hearing Teaching Partnerships in South Africa
- Zoom
Ang Nan Gu
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Towards Point-of-Care Echocardiography Aortic Stenosis Screening with Deep Learning
- Room 200
Jessica Wind
Language and Literacy Education
Making it Work: Cultural Discourse in Dungeons & Dragons Homebrew Communities of Practice