Defences are currently being held virtually via Zoom, and audiences are by invitation. Dates and times are posted for information only.
Monday, 1 March 2021 - 4:00pm
Seyed Mahyad Aghigh
Department: Chemistry
Ultracold Nitric Oxide Molecular Plasma: Characteristic Response to Time-Varying Electric Fields
Thursday, 4 March 2021 - 9:00am
Elesha Rene Hoffarth
Department: Chemistry
Building Chemical Tools from the Indolmycin Biosynthetic Pathway
Thursday, 4 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Diana Canals Hernaez
Department: Medical Genetics
Investigation of the Role of Podocalyxin in Cancer Progression and Its Potential as a Cancer Therapeutic
Friday, 5 March 2021 - 9:00am
Ching Wong
Department: Mathematics
New Results in Extremal Combinatorics
Friday, 5 March 2021 - 9:00am
Jenilyn Ang Ledesma
Department: Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education
Association of Language Proficiency and Performance on Mathematics and Science Assessments: The Case of PISA 2015
Friday, 5 March 2021 - 9:30am
Rebecca Jane Dodd
Department: English
Performing Memory: American Poets Theater and the Poetics of the Archive, 1945-1995
Friday, 5 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Ethan Richard Sauve
Department: Chemistry
Organic Electronic Materials for Nanoscale Systems: From Luminescent Bottlebrush Copolymers to Ultrastable Fluorophores
Friday, 5 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Michelle Gilman
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Rethinking "Family" in a Family Literacy Program: A Canadian Case Study
Monday, 8 March 2021 - 12:00pm
Chang Ge
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of a Technology Framework for Rapid Polymer MEMS Fabrication Process Based on SU-8 Photoresist
Monday, 8 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Seyedmohammadamin Arefi
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Computational Studies of Particles and Cells Transport in Microfluidic Devices
Monday, 8 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Arvind Shivnarayan Soni
Department: Chemistry
Synthesis of Substrates and Inhibitors for Cell Shape-Determining Proteases Csd4 and Csd6
Monday, 8 March 2021 - 4:00pm
Meghan Elizabeth Longstaffe
Department: History
Gendered Precarity and the Politics of Care: Histories of Homelessness, Home, and Community-Making in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
Tuesday, 9 March 2021 - 3:30pm
Minami Orihara
Department: Asian Studies
Bonds of Trust: The Origins of Tanomi Shomon and the Mechanisms of Trust and Cooperation in Early Modern Japan
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - 9:00am
Linglan Fu
Department: Chemistry
Engineering Globular Protein-Based Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - 9:00am
Shu Yang
Department: Computer Science
Recommendation-Based Approaches to Unveil Binding Preferences of Experimentally Unexplored RNA-Binding Proteins
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - 12:30pm
LJ Slovin
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
"Keep it Confusing": Gender Nonconforming Youth Resisting Structures of Legibility in High School
Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 9:30am
Lisa Marie Allen
Department: Educational Studies
Being Precarious: An Autoethnographic Account of One Precarious Faculty Member's Lived Experience Working in Four British Columbia Higher Education Institutions
Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 12:00pm
Sohrab Rahimi
Department: Forestry
Estimating the Final Moisture Content Variation in Kiln-Dried Pacific Coast Hemlock
Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Chengtie Wang
Department: Mining Engineering
Development of a Comprehensive HPGR Model Using Large Experimental Data Sets
Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Patrick Coulombe
Department: Experimental Medicine
Endothelial Regulation in Cell Fate Specification During Embryotic Development of the Lung and the Hematopoietic System
Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 1:30pm
Abdelmalik Aljalai
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Novel Signaling Schemes to Improve the Performance of 5G Cellular Networks and Beyond
Friday, 12 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Nathan Arjun Beloud (Dhaliwal)
Department: Sauder School of Business
Signalling Benefits of Punishing and Partnering
Friday, 12 March 2021 - 2:00pm
Marcus Andrew Sonier
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Adaptive Radiotherapy Treatment Corrections to Account for Patient-Specific Systematic Soft Tissue Deformations: Prostate, Lung, and Head & Neck Cancer
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - 9:00am
Neha Choudhary
Department: Chemistry
Non‐Macrocyclic Chelators for Metal‐Based Radiopharmaceuticals
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - 9:00am
Janet C Currie
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
What Patient, Clinician, Policy, and Socio-Cultural Factors are Associated with the Rise in Off-Label Prescribing of Domperidone in British Columbia When Used to Treat Low Milk Supply
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Abdullah Al-Digs
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Models and Methods for Power System Online Dynamic Contingency Monitoring and Control
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 - 9:00am
Sameer Hemant Shah
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Advancing Livelihood Water Security in the Rural Global South
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 9:00am
Lindsay Cole
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Exploring the Transformative Potential of Public Sector Innovation Labs: Assembling a Cabinet of Curiosities
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 9:00am
Linda Catherine Horianopoulos
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
The Roles of J Domain Co-Chaperones in the Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus Neoformans
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Jonathan Stuart Frew
Department: Experimental Medicine
Premature Termination Codon Readthrough Restores Progranulin Expression in Preclinical Models of Frontotemporal Dementia and Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 1:00pm
Kamaldeep Kaur Gill
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
From Mice to Children: Investigating Involvement of the Cerebellum in Developmental Coordination Disorder and Cerebellar Changes with Rehabilitation
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 2:00pm
Stefanie De Graaf
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Evaluation of Uniform Conditional State Model for Gas Turbine Combustor Design
Friday, 19 March 2021 - 9:00am
Dorothee Leesing
Department: Central, Eastern and North European Studies
Engaging the High-Rise in German Media Culture: Aspects of Vertical Living from 1945 to 2020
Friday, 19 March 2021 - 9:00am
Hoda Yaghmaiean
Department: Botany
Identification and Characterization of Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinases (RLCKs) Important in NLR-Mediated Immunity
Friday, 19 March 2021 - 11:00am
Justin Scott Dwyer
Department: Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Apollodorus of Carystus and the Tradition of New Comedy
Friday, 19 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Derek (Yongdong) Ouyang
Department: Population and Public Health
Increasing the Efficiency of Pragmatic Trials Using Innovative Design and Analyses
Monday, 22 March 2021 - 8:30am
Gil Jorge Barros Henriques
Department: Zoology
Evolutionary Theory of Cooperation and Group Life
Monday, 22 March 2021 - 9:00am
Giacomo Gallina
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Development of a Single Vacuum Ultra-Violet Photon-Sensing Solution for nEXO
Monday, 22 March 2021 - 9:00am
Samuel Livingston
Department: Botany
Developmental Cell Biology of Specialized Metabolite Production and Storage in Cannabis Glandular Trichomes
Monday, 22 March 2021 - 12:00pm
Christine Hui-Kuan Ou
Department: Nursing
Using Mixed Methods to Explain Maternal Anger: Examining the Relationships Between Sleep and Anger and Exploring Mothers' Development of Anger
Monday, 22 March 2021 - 12:30pm
MohammadAli Nikoo
Department: Experimental Medicine
Opium Tincture for Opioid Substitution Treatment
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 - 9:00am
Carlos Andres Diaz Lopez
Department: Chemistry
Neutral and Cationic Indium Complexes for the Synthesis of Oxygenated Copolymers
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 - 10:00am
Katelyn Dawn Janzen
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Characterizing Salmonella‐Pathogenicity Island‐2 Effector Interactions Implicated in Host Endomembrane Reorganization
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Matthew James Yanko
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Living Assessment: The Artful Assessment of Learning in the Arts
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Nina Ebner
Department: Geography
Lives on the Line: The (Re)Making of Uneven Development on the United States - Mexico Border
Thursday, 25 March 2021 - 9:00am
Brandon Stuart
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy of Topological Materials
Friday, 26 March 2021 - 9:00am
Silvain Sili Dang
Department: Psychology
Using the Dual Control Model to Understand Chinese and Western Cultural Influences in Sexuality for University Women and Men
Friday, 26 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Ava Becker
Department: Language and Literacy Education
After Exile: Heritage Language and Literacy Socialization Across Three Generations in one Chilean-Canadian Family
Monday, 29 March 2021 - 9:00am
Ziao Huang
Department: Chemistry
Quantitative Analysis of Small‐Molecule Biomarkers by Capillary Electrophoresis‐Mass Spectrometry
Monday, 29 March 2021 - 10:00am
Cheng Chen
Department: Materials Engineering
The Effect of Cure Cycle on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Interlayer Toughened Composites
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 - 1:00pm
Kyle Patrick Wamer
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Generalization of the Haldane Conjecture to SU(n) Chains
Wednesday, 31 March 2021 - 12:30pm
Vahitha Shameem Nizamudheen
Department: Experimental Medicine
Novel Therapeutic Approaches for the Treatment of Childhood Ocular Genetic Diseases
Thursday, 1 April 2021 - 10:00am
Tongou Yang
Department: Mathematics
Configurations and Decoupling: A Few Problems in Euclidean Harmonic Analysis
Thursday, 1 April 2021 - 12:30pm
Siba Ghrear
Department: Psychology
The Nature, Development, and Implications of the 'Curse of Knowledge' in Childhood
Tuesday, 6 April 2021 - 12:30pm
Kathryn Elizabeth Paterson
Department: Educational Studies
"It's a Very Careful Line We Walk": How Educators Resist, Navigate, and Make Sense of the Queer, Trans Necropolitical Landscape of Elementary Education
Thursday, 8 April 2021 - 9:00am
Arlo Cordell Adams
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
The Role of TBC-ER Membrane Contacts During Junction Turnover in the Seminiferous Epithelium
Thursday, 8 April 2021 - 9:00am
Kazune Tamura
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Functional Dissection of Beta-Glucan Utilization by Prominent Human Gut Symbionts
Thursday, 8 April 2021 - 9:00am
Jacqueline R Witkowski
Department: Art History, Visual Art and Theory (Fine Arts)
Disappearing Threads: Art Between Text and Textile in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile After 1955
Thursday, 8 April 2021 - 2:00pm
Giulia Francesca Del Gobbo
Department: Medical Genetics
Genomic Profiling in the Placenta: Toward a Greater Understanding of Genetic Variation Contributing to Placental Insufficiency and Fetal Growth Restriction
Friday, 9 April 2021 - 9:00am
Abdulrahman Ben Hasan
Department: Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
On Sustainability and Financial Return of Fishery Resources
Friday, 9 April 2021 - 12:30pm
Flora Yi Lun To-Miles
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
The Health-Promoting Potential of Occupations: An Exploratory Study of Adults With and Without Inflammatory Arthritis
Wednesday, 14 April 2021 - 9:30am
Yongwei Wang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Adversarial Deep Learning on Digital Media Security and Forensics
Wednesday, 14 April 2021 - 2:00pm
Nathalie Linnea Helene Sandell
Department: Zoology
Experiments of Sexual Selection and Ploidy-Specific Effects of Mutations in Yeast
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 - 9:00am
Baris Ahmet Yorumez
Department: History
Socialism with a Melancholy Heart: The Red-Collars and the Making of Reform Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1945-1968)
Friday, 23 April 2021 - 12:30pm
Jie Wu
Department: Forestry
Adapting Mechanical Pulping as a Possible Pretreatment/Front-End for an Enzyme-Based Biorefinery