Currently Open Research Projects
| Position Title | Supervisor(s) | Faculty | Research Classification |
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| Health Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowships – TRUSTSPHERE (2 openings) | Matthias Goerges | Faculty of Medicine | Health information systems (including surveillance), Medical and biomedical engineering, n.e.c., Computer systems engineering, Human computer interaction, Data mining |
| Postdoctoral position in Developmental Epigenetics | Matthew Lorincz | Faculty of Medicine | Epigenetics and epigenomics, Developmental genetics (including sex determination), Developmental genetics (including sex determination) |
| Process-based evaluation of streamflow vulnerability to climate change across North America (PhD) | Ali Ameli | Faculty of Science | Physical and catchment hydrology, Hydrogeology, High dimensional data analysis, Environmental impacts, Water resources infrastructure engineering |
| Process-based evaluation of streamflow vulnerability to climate change across North America (MSc) | Ali Ameli | Faculty of Science | Physical and catchment hydrology, High dimensional data analysis, Water resources infrastructure engineering |
| PhD positions in Chemistry available in the Huan lab | Tao Huan | Faculty of Science | Analytical spectrometry |
| Funded PhD Positions (Young People, Substance Use, Harm Reduction/Substance Use Care) | Danya Fast | Faculty of Medicine | Social and cultural anthropology, Medical anthropology, Urban sociology and community studies, Sociology and social studies of health, health systems and health care, Social and cultural geography, Health geography, Health equity, Health care effectiveness and outcomes, Knowledge translation and implementation science in health, Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c. |
| Postdoctoral fellow position in metabolomics and systems biology at the University of British Columbia | Tao Huan | Faculty of Science | Analytical spectrometry, Metabolomics |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships in Pharmacogenomics, Bioinformatics, and Clinical Pharmacology with a Focus on Adverse Drug Reactions to Cancer Treatment | Colin Ross | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Genomics |
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Faculty Members Recruiting Students
This list shows a selection of faculty members who are currently looking for new graduate students. They may have specified particular projects they wish to fill. Please ensure to review the departmental profile of each faculty member to learn more about their research interests and to ensure a good fit to your intended studies at UBC.
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Mitchell | Tamara | Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Artistic and Literary Theories; Political Ideologies; Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture; Neoliberalism, Globalization, (Post-)National Politics; Political Philosophy, Critical Theory; Border and Diaspora Studies; Contemporary Central American Literature and Culture; Digital Humanities; Sound Studies | Any time / year round |
"Noisy Narrative" Latin American Literary Soundscapes" (Digital Humanities, Sound Studies, Literary Analysis) Unbounded: Latin American Literature in the Age of Technological Globalization (book project) |
| Milner-Bolotin | Marina | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Science, technology and engineering curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Educational Technologies; educational innovation; Educational technology; physics education; STEM education; STEM teacher education; Science and Knowledge; teacher education; Teacher and Student Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Teaching and Learning Systems; Technological Innovations | 2022 |
Physics education, STEM education |
| Milloy | Michael-John | Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical cannabis; overdose; HIV disease; people who use drugs; Substance use disorder | 2021, 2022 |
Graduate trainees and post-graduate-level fellows are invited to express their interest in working on two funded studies involving the health of marginalized people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: 1. The AIDS Care Cohort to evaluate Exposure to Survival Services (ACCESS): This United States National Institutes of Health-funded open observational prospective cohort... Read More |
| Miller | Bradley | Historical studies; British Empire History; Canadian history; Criminal Justice History; International Law and International Relations; legal history; North American History; Political History | Any time / year round |
Canadian History; North American History; British Empire History; Legal History; Political History; Criminal Justice History; International Law and International Relations |
| Mercer | Sterett | Special education and disability; Educational psychology; curriculum-based measurement; academic intervention; written expression | 2021 |
Development and evaluation of curriculum-based measurement tools in basic academic skill areas. Evaluation of academic interventions for students with learning difficulties. |
| Menzies | Charles | Social sciences; Indigenous studies; Natural Resource Management; Maritime Anthropology; Western Europe; Ethnographic Film | 2021 |
Indigenous students engaged (and/or interested) in community based research, decolonizing practices, and process that support Indigneous authority and jurisdiction are encouraged to connect with Professor Menzies to discuss potential applications to graduate study. Settler students intersted in exploring the relations of power and inequality within contepmorary capitalist society and settler... Read More |
| Menkis | Richard | Canadian history; Historical memory; Jewish history; Holocaust studies | 2021 |
Historical writing, historical memory and identities of Canadian Jews Canadian responses to the Third Reich and to the Holocaust
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| McCormick | Kelly | Humanities and the arts; Modern Japan; History of Visual and Material Culture/Photography; History of Technology; History of Gender and Sexuality | 2022 |
Modern Japan; 20th century visual and material culture |
| Mayor | Thibault | Biochemistry; Genomics; Aging; Cell Biology; Neurodegenerative diseases; Proteasome; Protein Degradation; Protein Folding; Proteomics; Proteostasis; Ubiquitin; Yeast Genetics | Any time / year round |
The main lab focus is protein quality control and how misfolded proteins are triaged within the cell. In the next years, we want to establish several new projects and here are some examples: |
| Mayer | Ulrich | Geology; groundwater contamination; groundwater remediation; hydrogeology; low-temperature geochemistry; mine waste management | Any time / year round |
Development of multicomponent reactive transport modeling tools for multiphase systems |
| Masse | Louise | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity | 2021 |
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| Martin Ginis | Kathleen | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; exercise behaviour change science; Spinal cord injury; participation; disability; psychological well-being | 2021 | |
| Marshall | Katie | Animal physiology, environmental stress; Environmental Change; Marine biodiversity; Population Ecology; invertebrates and temperature adaptation | 2021, 2022 |
Population variation in enzyme activity, metabolic rate |
| Marshall | Hallie | Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison |
See my areas of research interest. |
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| Marshall | Sheila | Social work; Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.); Parent-Child Relationships; adolescent social identity; adolescent well-being; parent-adolescent interactions |
Adolescent social identity; adolescent relationships with non-parental adults; adolescent well-being |
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| Marshall | Christopher Warren | Cinema studies; Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Film, television and digital media; Religion and religious studies; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions | Any time / year round |
I am interested in Greek and Roman poetry and its receptions, and most of my scholarship has focused on ancient theatre. I look at how genre and structure (including metre and other formal elements) can shape a literary work and how it is perceived and understood by its original audience, and by subsequent audiences. My research falls into four broad categories: Greek and Roman Theatre and... Read More |
| Manges | Amee | Health sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Public and population health; Epidemiology; Molecular epidemiology; Public health |
Human microbiome research and molecular epidemiology |
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| Maharaj | Anil | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c.; Pharmacometrics; Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics; Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology | Any time / year round |
Master’s and PhD Students Potential Projects: |
| Madden | Kenneth | Aging Process; Cardiovascular Diseases; Diabetes; Community Health / Public Health; Exercise interventions; Sedentary Behaviour; Syncope; Falls Prevention; Infodemiology; Machine Learning | Any time / year round |
Dr. Ken Madden holds the Allan M. McGavin Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal. His lab has examined the effect of exercise interventions in older adults with Type 2 diabetes, the ability of different forms of exercise to impact arterial stiffness in subjects at high cardiometabolic risk, and the impact of... Read More |
| Madden | John | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; artificial muscle; electrochemical devices; electronic skin; Functional and Intelligent Materials; medical devices; smart materials; supercapacitors; wearables | Any time / year round |
We are developing new wearable technologies for medical, robotic and consumer applications. |
| MacLean | Karon | Computer and information sciences; Information Systems; design of user interfaces; haptic interfaces; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction |
Human-robot interaction, user interface design, interactive sensing |
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| Macfarlane | Allison | Research, science and technology policy; science and technology policy; energy policy, regulation; nuclear energy, nuclear waste management | Any time / year round |
Nuclear waste management and disposal, nuclear energy policy and regulation issues. |
| Lynn | Francis | Diabetes; ß-cell development; ß-cell biology; Human pluripotent stem cells; CRISPR/Cas; transcriptional regulation | Any time / year round |
Research in the Lynn lab is targeted at understanding the insulin-producing pancreatic β-cell, how it fails during diabetes mellitus and how we can make surrogate cells to cure diabetes. We use a variety of models to study the regulatory pathways important for embryonic β-cell genesis and function. The current focus of research in the lab is understanding how DNA-binding transcription factors... Read More |
| Loutzenheiser | Lisa | Educational Context; Sexuality; Gender Epidemiology; Social Contexts; Teacher Education; Ideology and Social Policy; Epistemology and Methodology; Thought Schools (education); anti-oppressive education; queer studies; curriculum theory; Youth Studies; curriculum policy; qualitative methodologies; ethnography; Gender Studies; social inequality; sexuality education; alternative education; marginalized youth; LGBT2SQ; Race Studies in Education | 2021 |
Marginalized youth;SOGI Policy and Implementation; Queer and poststructural theories[Critical race theory;Gender;Sexuality;Education; Intersectionalities. |
| Lorincz | Matthew | Genetic medicine; Developmental Genetics; genomics; chromatin; Development; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; Gene regulation |
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| Loewen | Christopher | Membranes and Organelles; Lipid Signalling; Lipid Traffic; Membrane Contact Sites; Genetic Networks; Systems Biology; Super Resolution Microscopy; Cell polarity; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Golgi; Membrane Diffusion Barriers; Cell Biology; Autism; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Cancer Cell Metabolism | Any time / year round |
We currently have projects in the areas of genetic networks, cell signalling, membrane contact sites, cell polarity, cancer metabolism and autism. We use multiple model systems to study these topics including budding yeast for genetic network analysis, model human cell lines for cell signalling and microscopy, and knockout mouse genetic models for in vivo functional analysis. |
| Loewen | Peter | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Cardiovascular diseases; Arrhythmia; Thrombosis and Embolism; Heart Failure; Pharmacoepidemiology; stroke; Health Care Technologies; Professional Practices; Hematology; decision making; adherence to medication; atrial fibrillation; clinical prediction rules; healthcare communication technologies; hospital pharmacy practice; knowledge translation of evidence to patient care; patient complexiometry; patient decision aids; patient education; pharmacy practice; prediction of stroke and bleeding in atrial fibrillation patients; quality of care, quality drug therapy; Shared decision-making; stroke prevention therapy; use of mobile technology for clinical decision-making | 2021 |
In the above domains, to be worked out with excellent candidates. |
| Liu-Ambrose | Teresa | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Age and Risk Factors; Cognitive Aging; Cognitive Neuropsychology of Aging; Fall prevention; Healthy Aging; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Mobility; Physical Activity; rehabilitation; Sleep | Any time / year round |
Increasing precision in exercise prescription to promote cognitive and brain health. The neural interplay between cognitive function and mobility. The relationship between sleep and cognitive function. Preventing falls in high-risk older adults. |
| Lindsey | Charles | Economics and business administration; Inventory and distribution logistics; Advanced traveler information systems; climate change; Economic Policies; Financing transportation infrastructure; Parking policy; Public transit; Queuing; Road pricing; Traffic congestion; Transportation Systems | Any time / year round |
Traffic congestion, Road pricing, Financing transportation infrastructure, Public transit, Advanced traveler information systems, Parking policy, Climate change |
| Lim | Chinten James | Cell Signaling and Cancer; Leukemia; Immunotherapy; Chemotherapy; tumour cell biology; mechanisms of drug resistance; integrin cell adhesion and migration; tumour microenvironment; pediatric oncology | Any time / year round |
Integrin cell adhesion in chemotherapeutic resistance. Immunogenic cell death. Cardiomyocyte biology. Pediatric oncology. |
| Li | Shyh-Dar | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); biopharmaceutics; drug delivery; nanomedicine; pharmaceutics | Any time / year round |
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| Li | Linda | Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis; digital media; E-health; Health Care Technologies; Health services research; Implementation Science; Knowledge translation; Patient Engagement; Patient help-seeking experiences; Patient self-management; rehabilitation; Rehabilitation Care and Services; Rehabilitation and lifestyle interventions in arthritis management; Shared decision-making | Any time / year round |
Visit the Arthritis, Joint Health & Knowledge Translation Research Program website for a current list of Dr Li's research projects: http... Read More |
| Lester | Richard | Infectious Diseases; Telemedicine; Teleinformatics; Tuberculosis; Ethics and Health; AIDS / HIV; Health Care Technologies; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Native Health; Digital health; Mobile health (mHealth); Precision Public Health; Patient-centered care; Global Health | Any time / year round |
Global digital health for patient engagement in care. Work in Canada, Africa and globally. Quantitative and qualitative studies, implementation research, and digital health policy and ethics. Especially among scaling interventions to benefit vulnerable populations. |
| Lee | Jae-Hyeok | Plant biology; Molecular Genetics; evolutionary genetics; cell and molecular biology of cellular differentiation; evolution of developmental mechanisms; molecular genetics of microalgae for robust biomass production | Any time / year round |
Our work aims to explore evolutionary potential of microalgae using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a model system. 1) Functional genomics projects to improve photosynthetic productivity of microalgae under stressors like excess light and poor nutrient. 2) Molecular genetics projects to analyze mutants defective for sexual development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 3) Comparative genomics projects... Read More |
| Leavitt | Blair | Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Alzheimer's disease; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Ataxia; Dementia; Experimental Therapeutics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Gene regulation; Gene Silencing and Gene Editing; Gene Therapy; Huntington disease; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Medical Genetics; Mouse models of disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurogenetics |
Mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases |
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| Lazrak | Ali | Finance and Accounting; Economic Phenomena on an Individual or Organizational Level; Asset pricing, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Household portfolio choice |
Different research projects in the finance area are available |
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| Laronde | Denise | Cancer; oral cancer screening; malignant transformation; early detection; oral premalignant lesions | 2021 |
oral cancer screening early detection markers of progression |
| Lange | Philipp | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Pathology (except oral pathology); Cell Signaling and Cancer; mass spectrometry; pediatric cancer; personalized medicine; post translational protein modification; Proteomics | Any time / year round |
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| Lamers | Yvonne | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins | Any time / year round |
My enthusiasm for research draws from my interest in the biochemistry and physiology of nutrition-related diseases and in targeted and population-based strategies of chronic disease prevention and optimal health promotion. My research focuses on micronutrients and specifically B-vitamins and their kinetics and functions in human metabolism. B-vitamins are required for normal cell growth and... Read More |
| Lallous | Nada | Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer progression and metastasis; Cancer molecular targets; Biochemistry; Biophysics; Cancer biology; Therapeutics; Protein research; Drug resistance; transcription factors | 2021 |
Expression, purification and biophysical characterization of various prostate cancer targets. |
| Laffin | Christina | Humanities and the arts; premodern Japanese literature; medieval Japanese history; women's writing; Japanese women's history; travel writing; autobiography; Japanese poetry; Literacy; socialization; wet nursing; narratology | Any time / year round |
Heian and Kamakura-era literature, late Heian and medieval women's history |
| Kwakkel | Erik | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Audiovisual, Visual, Audio and Written Communications; Codicology; Communication Contexts; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Digital Humanities; History of Libraries; History of the Book; Medieval Manuscripts; Paleography; reading | 2021 |
Manuscript studies; History of the Book; History of Reading; History of Libraries; Materiality of Information (Book Design); Digitization in Rare Books and Special Collections environment; Digital Humanities where it intersects with the History of the Book. |
| Kuo | Calvin | Biomechanical engineering; Medical devices; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Sensing human motion; How humans make sense of their own motion; Sensorimotor Neutrophysiology; Wearable Sensing; Musculoskeletal Modeling | 2021 |
Cardiac arrest sensing and emergency response. |
| Kubota | Ryuko | Specialized studies in education; critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching | Any time / year round |
Historical study on meta discourse on language and language learning among Japanese students in China from 1900-1945. |
| Kruecken | Reiner | Physical sciences; Elementary Particles; Neutrino Physics; Nuclear Astrophysics; Nuclear Physics; Universe Structure |
Structure and Dynamics of Rare Isotopes relevant for the synthesis of the heavy chemical elements in the universe Detector Technologies for the next generation neutrinoless double beta-decay search experiment nEXO |
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| Kronstad | James | Bioinformatics; Immunology; Microbiology; Plant biology; Fungal diseases of plants; Genomics and Proteomics; Medical Mycology; Molecular Genetics; Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; Plant-Microbe Interactions | Any time / year round |
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| Kopp | Janel | Genomics; Modeling cancer; Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development | Any time / year round |
Tumor biology |
| Klinkenberg | Brian | Geomatics; Biogeography; Bioinformatics; Environmental Health; Geographic Information Science; Environmental Remote Sensing; Spatial Analysis; Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Citizen Science Initiatives | Any time / year round |
Please view my home page for a listing of current projects. |
| Klein Geltink | Ramon | Pathology (except oral pathology); Metabolism; Immunotherapy; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Auto-Immune Diseases; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Adoptive cellular therapy; Immunometabolism; T cell function | Any time / year round |
My research program at UBC/BCCHRI aims to better understand how the immune system can be used to treat childhood diseases. In children with cancer, the immune system is no longer able to rid the body of cancerous cells. In children with autoimmune diseases the immune system gets rid of healthy cells of the body. We are particularly interested in the metabolism of immune cells. Cellular... Read More |
| Klein | Peter | Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Video and New Media; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Large International Projects; Media and Democratization; Global Journalism; Innovation in Journalism; Documentary Production; Investigative Reporting | Any time / year round |
Investigative reporting on global supply chains |