Aaron Klymasz-Swartz
Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)
Physiological development of the amphibian gill; do the gills take on a dominant role for ion regulation before gas exchange as observed in developing teleost fish?
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UBC Science houses a wide range of prestigious NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience and related industry programs: from atmospheric aerosols to high-throughput biology, from biodiversity research and ecosystems services to plant cell wall biosynthesis, from quantum science and new materials to applied geochemistry. The options for enriched graduate training in industry related fields are almost endless.
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UBC Science boasts more than 50 Canada Research Chairs, 12 fellows of the Royal Society of London, and has been home to two Nobel Laureates. Our graduate students have won 15 prestigious Vanier Scholarships.
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Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Computational Sciences and Mathematics
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Genomics and Biological Sciences
Human-Computer Interaction
Life Sciences
Chemistry and Materials Science
Physics
Sustainability
Designed to inspire collaboration and creativity across disciplines, the new Earth Sciences Building (ESB) lies at the heart of the science precinct on UBC’s Vancouver Campus. The $75 million facility is home to Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Statistics, the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences, and the dean’s office of the Faculty of Science. ESB’s updated teaching facilities will help Canada meet the challenges of a transforming and growing resource sector. Just as importantly, the researchers and students working and learning in the new facility will offer a valuable flow of well-trained talent, new ideas, and fresh professional perspectives to industry.
Receiving more than $120 million in annual research funding, UBC Science faculty members conduct top-tier research in the life, physical, earth and computational sciences. Their discoveries help build our understanding of natural laws—driving insights into sustainability, biodiversity, human health, nanoscience and new materials, probability, artificial intelligence, exoplanets and a wide range of other areas.
UBC Science boasts 50 Canada Research Chairs and 10 fellows of the Royal Society of London, and has been home to two Nobel Laureates.
Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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Chau, Albert | Department of Mathematics | Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations |
Chen, Jiahua | Department of Statistics | Statistical theory and modeling; empirical likelihood; finite mixture model; sample survey; asymptotic theory; imputation |
Chen, Jingyi | Department of Mathematics | Algebraic and differential geometry; Differential Geometry, Partial Differential Equations |
Chen, David | Department of Chemistry | Instrumentation |
Cheung, Wai Lung | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Global change biology; Ecological impacts of climate change; climate change; Marine Ecosystems; sustainability; biodiversity; Interdisciplinary |
Choptuik, Matthew | Department of Physics & Astronomy | Theoretical physics, Relativity/Computational Physics |
Chou, Keng Chang | Department of Chemistry | Chemical physics |
Christensen, Villy | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Fisheries management; Global change biology; Ecosystem function |
Chritz, Kendra | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Anthropocene, Onset, tempo, and trajectory of human impacts on biological processes and environmental change |
Clune, Jeff | Department of Computer Science | |
Cohen Freue, Gabriela | Department of Statistics | statistical genomics (focus in proteomics), robust estimation and inference, linear models with endogeneity |
Colliander, James | Department of Mathematics | hamiltonian dynamical systems; partial differential equations; harmonic analysis |
Conati, Cristina | Department of Computer Science | artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, affective computing, personalized interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent interface agents, virtual agent, user-adapted interaction, computer-assisted education, educational computer games, computers in education, user-adaptive interaction, Artificial intelligence, adaptive interfaces, cognitive systems, user modelling |
Condon, Anne | Department of Computer Science | Algorithms; Molecular Programming |
Cooke, Ilsa | Department of Chemistry | Role of icy dust grains in interstellar chemistry; Constraining aromatic and carbon chemistry during star formation; Observational Astronomy |
Coombs, Daniel | Department of Mathematics | Mathematical biology; Cellular immunology; Complex physical systems; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell biophysics; Disease models; Epidemiology; Immune cell signalling; Mathematics |
Correia, Miguel | Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); marine conservation; Syngnathid biology; marine ecology | |
Cronk, Quentin Charles | Department of Botany | Comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology to study plant form |
Crowe, Sean | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Geobiology, biogeochemistry, microbial evolution |
Cytrynbaum, Eric | Department of Mathematics | Bacterial cell division, Microtubule and cellular organization, Wave propagation in excitable media |
d'Arcy, Mitch | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Earth and related environmental sciences; Geomorphology; Climate/palaeoclimate; Sedimentology; Geochronology; remote sensing |
Dake, Gregory | Department of Chemistry | Organic, bioactive, metal as catalyist |
Damascelli, Andrea | Department of Physics & Astronomy | Electronic structure of solids, strongly correlated electron systems, low dimensional spin systems, thin films and nanostructures, transition metal oxides, high-Tc superconductors, linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopies, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, synchrotron based spectroscopies., Electronic structure of novel complex systems in nanostructured materials |
Dao Duc, Khanh | Department of Mathematics | Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation |
Davies, Jonathan | Department of Botany | Phylogenetics & Biodiversity. Development and application of phylogenetic methods in ecology and conservation biology |
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Science.
Year | Citation | Program |
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2023 | Dr. Krekhno investigated mechanisms of pathogenic E. coli-caused infantile diarrhea, providing insights into host-microbe interactions. He employed computational and molecular biology tools to provide the first comprehensive overview of the changes in the regulation of gene expression during infection. | Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Davis studied the effects of temperature and resource availability on ecosystem functioning. She showed that rates of nitrogen supply usually accelerate with warming, and documented two important ecological effects of this pattern. She also identified a key limiting resource in a seagrass ecosystem recovering from decline. | Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Ripoche studied evolved stellar populations, from giant stars to their remnants. He developed new tools to analyze data from X-ray space telescopes, measure distances in space, and identify dead stars, called white dwarfs, in large surveys. His findings will help us better understand the structure and history of our Galaxy and the Universe. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Crescenzo measured the viscosity of airborne aerosol particles formed from the gas emissions from plants. His thesis showed that many of these airborne particles are more viscous than tar pitch, or even solid like glass at many humidities & temperatures. His studies are helpful to improve the accuracy of climate and air quality predictions. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Wang devised and carried out landmark experiments using radio-frequency and millimeter-wave fields to control and probe the evolution of ultracold molecular plasmas. His findings have provided new insights into ultracold neutral plasmas specifically, and into disordered many-body systems in general. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Mehrabifard's research has addressed the problem of human-induced earthquakes resulting from the shift towards cleaner, lower carbon energy resources. By developing a deep understanding of the physics underlying these earthquakes, he has created effective predictive models and identified appropriate mitigation strategies to minimize their occurrence. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Engineering (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Nelson's work focussed on the role of the carbonic anhydrase enzyme within the unique respiratory system responsible for the success of the teleost fishes. Her work advances our understanding of the function, development, and evolution of a respiratory system present in half of all vertebrate species. | Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Pan investigated new conditional inference and prediction methods after fitting a joint distribution based on vine copulas, including prediction of an arbitrary variable given others, prediction of a right-censored response, and prediction of an ordinal or continuous response when some explanatory variables are nominal categorical. | Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Jana rigorously investigated algebraic invariants of two spaces: Classifying space for commutativity and Unordered flag manifolds. Their research explored algebraic topology, employing algebraic methods to analyze shapes. The core of the research lies in the pursuit of simplification through decomposition, marking its fundamental significance. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD) |
2023 | Where do the chemical elements come from? Using the nuclear physics technique of mass spectrometry, Dr. Jacobs investigated potential astrophysical sites where some of these elements are produced. The findings point to binary neutron star mergers as a prime candidate for explaining a range of elemental abundances observed in stars. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |