Natural sciences

This division comprises research and experimental development in natural sciences. Natural sciences refer to scientific disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world, in the field of natural sciences, which includes mathematics and statistics; computer and information sciences; physical sciences; chemical sciences; earth and related environmental sciences; biological sciences; and other natural sciences. Research consists of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development consists of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

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Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)

Applied Animal Biology offers opportunities for advanced study and research leading to a Ph.D. degree in animal physiology, behaviour, welfare, and management of livestock, companion animals, research animals, wildlife species, aquaculture, and on the human-animal relationship. The program is…

Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy (PhD)

UBC research in astronomy and astrophysics covers most areas of current interest in this broad field, including a wide range of theoretical and observational studies in astronomy, and also experimental and theoretical studies in cosmology. Research at optical wavelengths includes searches and…

Doctor of Philosophy in Atmospheric Science (PhD)

Atmospheric scientists use principles of classical physics to study, explain, and predict atmospheric behavior on scales ranging from turbulent eddies through storm clouds to earth’s global circulation. We are motivated by weather-related big societal issues including climate change, air quality,…

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program provides advanced, research-based education that will prepare students for a career in academic, industrial, or professional positions in British Columbia and beyond.  The Program offers MSc and PhD degrees, with the option to transfer from…

Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics (PhD)

The Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics (PhD)is an interdisciplinary program that combines the application of computer technology to the management and analysis of biological data. The result is that computers are being used to organize data generated from experiments into databases, develop new…

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD)

The Botany Department is one of the largest and strongest plant-focused departments in North America with roots extending back to the founding of UBC in 1915. Our departmental community of more than 260 consists of 40 full-time faculty members, several part-time faculty or associates, about 100…

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Finance (PhD)

The PhD Program in Business Administration welcomes applications from individuals planning research-oriented academic careers. As well as gaining access to a world of knowledge and opportunity, Sauder PhD students benefit from the individual attention they receive from faculty members - right from…

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

The graduate program in Cell and Developmental Biology offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees to students undertaking advanced study and research in cell and developmental biology. The program is flexible and is designed to accommodate the diverse backgrounds of students and the broad nature of research in…

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)

In the Chemistry department Faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, undergraduates and staff members work cooperatively in a collegial environment to tackle some of the world's most pressing problems related to energy, health and sustainability. Research areas in the department cover…

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD)

PhD students in the Department of Computer Science may focus their research in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence: computer vision, decision theory/game theory, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent user interfaces, machine learning, natural language understanding and…

Doctor of Philosophy in Genome Science and Technology (PhD)

The Genome Science and Technology graduate program is a trans-disciplinary program that combines genomic research with leading-edge technology development in genome sciences for students pursing an M.Sc. or Ph.D. This program is intended to accommodate the diverse background of students and the…

Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Engineering (PhD)

Our program delivers an interdisciplinary experience, combining principles of geotechnical engineering, hydrogeology and geology, to provide a versatile set of skills needed to solve a wide range of practical problems related to engineering interactions with the earth environment. Faculty members…

Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Sciences (PhD)

Geologists study the materials that make up the earth, the features and structures found on Earth as well as the processes by which these features and structures formed. Our department has a wide range of expertise in geological sciences, including field-based studies (e.g., mineral deposit…

Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics (PhD)

Theoretically, experimentally, and observationally oriented Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programs are offered in a number of key areas of geophysics. Current interests include topics in observational and theoretical glaciology;…

Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

UBC iSchool’s Ph.D. program is a four-year funded program that combines coursework with independent study and research. Students have access to faculty members and advisors and benefit from unique opportunities at a research-intensive university. The Ph.D. program is designed to provide advanced…

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Taubert, Stefan

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other health sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Transcriptomics; Genomics; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription

Teves, Sheila

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Genomics; Epigenetics; Genetics; Genome Science; Molecular Epigenetics (MEG); molecular biology; Transcriptional memory and cellular identity in mouse embryonic stem cells

Todd, Rebecca

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning ; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards; Human Cognition and Emotion, Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking, Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition, Cognition, Emotional learning , Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above, Learning and Memory, Motivation, Emotions and Rewards

Todesco, Marco

Michael Smith Laboratories, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Plant biology; Quantitative genetics (including disease and trait mapping genetics); Biological adaptation; Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Genomics; Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics; Paleogenomics; Genetics engineering; Genetic and molecular basis of adaptation; Plant genomics; Chromosomal structural variation; Crop improvement and bioengineering; Wild sunflowers ecology and evolution; Cannabis diversity and domestication

Tokuyama, Maria

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Virology; Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs); Chronic interaction between viruses and the immune system

Traboulsee, Tony

Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurology; Central nervous system; Biomedical signal processing; Machine learning; magnetic resonance imaging; multiple sclerosis; Neuromyelitls optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD); Myelin Oligodendrocyte Antibody Disorder (MOGAD); Brain MRI; Spinal Cord MRI

Tropini, Carolina

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Microbiology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Physical sciences; Bacteria; Bacteriophages; Bioengineering; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biophysics; Gut microbiota; Inflammatory bowel disease

Tsai, Tai-Peng

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Mathematical physics

Tseng, Michelle

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population ecology; Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Evolutionary impacts of climate change; Biological adaptation; Ecological impacts of climate change; Insect & plankton ecology; Community and evolutionary ecology; Community responses to warming; Urban biodiversity

Tu, Qingshi

Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Earth and related environmental sciences; Systems engineering; Environmental engineering; Biomass (Energy); Sustainable Development; Modelization and Simulation; Biofuels and bioproducts; climate change; Computational modeling; Forest biorefineries; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable bioeconomy; Machine Learning

Turner, Hannah

School of Information, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; cataloguing and classification; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Impacts of New Information Technologies; information practice; museum anthropology; Science and technology studies

Turvey, Stuart

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Immunology; Microbiology; Asthma; Immune System; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Precision Medicine; Primary Immune Deficiencies

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Van Petegem, Filip

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Genetic Diseases; Calcium signaling; Cardiac arrhythmia; electrical signaling; electrophysiology; Epilepsy; Ion channels; Structural Biology

Velenosi, Thomas

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c.; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer molecular targets; Metabolomics; Lipid biology (including lipidomics); Pharmacometabolomics; Pharmacology; Lipidomics; mass spectrometry; Cancer; Stable isotope tracing; Bioinformatics

Vincent, Amanda

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Natural environment sustainability studies; Natural resource management; Wildlife and habitat management

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van Willigenburg, Stephanie

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; algebraic combinatorics; Coxeter group; quasisymmetric function; Schur functions and generalizations; chromatic symmetric function

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Wachs, Anthony

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Fluidization and fluid mechanics; Process control and simulation in chemical engineering; Numerical computation; Fluid mechanics; Particle-laden flows; Non Newtonian flows; Heat and mass transfer; Numerical simulation; High performance computing; Multi-scale modelling

Walji, Nahid

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Waltham, Christopher

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Physical sciences; Musical Acoustics

Wang, Ying

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Drug discovery, design and delivery; atherosclerosis; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Vascular biology; Spatial 'Omics'; Drug repurposing and therapeutic design; Disease modeling; Digital Pathology

Wasteneys, Geoff

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Plant biology; Cell signaling; Hormones and Growth Factors; Molecular Genetics; Cellulose Biosynthesis; Microtubule Dynamics and Organization; Plant Cell Walls in Cell Shape and Tissue Function; Plant Growth and Development; Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress; Trafficking of Membrane Receptors and Transporters

Waterman, Stephanie

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Arctic oceanography; geophysical fluid dynamics; Jets, eddies & scale interactions; Ocean dynamics; Oceanic processes; Scale interactions; Southern ocean dynamics; Western boundary current jets

Watson, Liam

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Topology; Low-dimensional topology; Khovanov homology; Heegaard Floer homology

Weber, Alexander

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Dynamical systems in applications; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering

Weis, Dominique

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Isotope geochemistry; Environmental geochemistry; Earth Structure and Composition; Geodynamics; Chemical Pollutants; Earth Sciences; Geochemistry; High-precision/sensitivity geochemical analyses; Indigenous studies; Oceanic islands and mantle plumes

Welch, William

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computational methods in statistics; Computer experiments; Design and analysis of experiments; Statistical machine learning; Environmental modellign

Werker, Janet

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Critical Periods; Language Acquisition; Language Acquisition and Development; Language and Cognitive Processes; Multisensory Processing; Plasticity; Psycholinguistics; Psychology - Biological Aspects; speech perception; Speech and Language Development Disorders

West, Christopher

Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Systems physiology; Animal physiology, circulation; Integrative physiology; Spinal cord injury; Animal models

White, Rachel

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics; Climate modelling; Atmospheric dynamics; climate change; Extreme weather events; Climate impacts

Whitehead, Lorne

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atomic, molecular, and optical physics; Education; Economics and business administration; Applied optics; Applied physics, especially novel geometrical approaches; Illuminating engineering and display technology; Optimizing innovation and enhancing learning within higher education

Whitton, Jeannette

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Speciation (evolutionary processes); Plant developmental and reproductive biology; Plant evolutionary ecology; Evolution of asexuality; Evolution and consequences of polyploidy; Speciation/ diversification; Species at risk in Canada; Conservation policy

Williams, Ben

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory

Williams, Jennifer

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population ecology; Evolutionary ecology; Ecological mathematical and statistical models; Population Ecology; Ecological and evolutionary processes

Williams, Karla

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer progression and metastasis; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Cancer biology; Metastasis; Tumor and plasma biomarkers; Therapeutic target identification and validation; tumor microenvironment

Winstanley, Catharine

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Computational neuroscience; Traumatic Brain Injury

Wisnovsky, Simon

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer genetics; Tumour immunology; Cellular immunology; Glycomics and glycobiology; Chemical genetics; Systems biology; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genomics; Cancer molecular targets; glycobiology; carbohydrates; Tumor immunology; Functional genomics; CRISPR screening; Glycomics; Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Cell Biology; Cancer

Wolf, Michael

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Synthesis of materials; Physical inorganic chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Polymer chemistry; Photochemistry

Wong, Hubert

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Biostatistical methods; Clinical trial design

Wong, Judy

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Nucleic acids studies; Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Cancer biology; Aging; Genome Instability; Nucleic Acid Structures; Pharmacology; Genetics and Genomics

Wood, Frank Donald

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Computational neuroscience; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; New models and inference algorithms; Probabilistic models; Probabilistic programming; Probabilistic programming systems; Reinforcement learning; Robotics; vision

Wotherspoon, Amy

Faculty of Forestry

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ecological impacts of climate change; Ecosystem function; Global change biology; Forest ecology; silviculture; climate change; Dendrochronology

Wu, Lang

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biostatistical methods; Longitudinal data analysis, mixed effects models, missing data, hypothesis testing, biostatistics

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Yadav, Vikramaditya

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Chemical engineering; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Bioactive Molecules; Biocatalysis; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biomass (Energy); Biomaterials; Bioprocess engineering; Bioremediation; Biotechnology; drug delivery; Drug discovery & development; Medical biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials; Synthetic biology; Technoeconomics; Tissue Engineering; Vaccines

Yadav, Vivek

Faculty of Applied Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Theory and algorithms for meshing techniques; Finite element method; Time-Integrator; Finite element simulation of biological system; Higher-order compact finite difference scheme;

Yang, Tianxi

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Food sciences (including food engineering); Analytical chemistry; Nano-technology; Chemical engineering; Develop novel Point-of-Care tools for food safety monitoring; Design smart nanomaterials for sustainable farming and precision agriculture; Create sustainable and multifunctional packaging materials to improve food safety and quality

Ye, Ziliang

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Physical sciences; Nanomaterials; Optics and Photonics

Yi, Kwang Moo

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer vision in artificial intelligence; Pattern recognition and artificial vision; 3D Computer Vision; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Astronomy Applications of Computer VIsion

Yip, Calvin

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genetic Diseases; Enzymes and Proteins; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Molecular Structure and Sizing; Imaging; Chromatin modification / epigenetic regulation; Molecular etiologies of rare diseases; Regulation of autophagy degradation

Yoon, Dongwook

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; design; Educational Technologies; Augmented reality; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); Educational technology; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Interaction and interface design; Multimodal interaction; Speech, touch, multitouch, stylus, gesture, mixed-reality, 3d interaction; Virtual Reality

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Zahl, Joshua

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; Lie groups, harmonic and Fourier analysis; Harmonic Analysis; Combinatorics; Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry

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Heather (Hezy) Anholt

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

A one health approach to investigating the ecology of East African trypanosomiasis in Malawian wildlife
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Sarah Amundrud

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

The role of predators in mediating the ecological effects of climate change in Costa Rican bromeliad food webs
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Katherine Huerne

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

A Stepping-Stone Towards Equity: Identifying Key Elements of Best-Practice Guidelines for Improving Sex and Gender-Based Analysis in Cancer Research (CIHR topic)
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Ewan Wright

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

The sustainability of the outer space environment
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Deanna Pepin

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Impact of osmotic perturbations on the gut microbiota
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Mia Frier

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Regulation of endosomal protein sorting by Vrl1 and the VINE complex
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Isaiah Betinol

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)

Statistical Models and Machine Learning for the Design and Optimization of Novel Catalysts
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Mohit Pandey

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics (PhD)

Exploration of large chemical spaces with deep reinforcement and active learning
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Abisola Kehinde

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Understanding the metabolic consequences of the systemic alanine depletion in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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Atul Aravindakshan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Built environment, metabolomics, and cancer risk
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Grady Thompson

Student

Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MASc)

Analysis of stochastic directed acyclic graphs
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Cara James

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics (PhD)

Understanding deep-sea mining particulate clouds: predicting environmental impacts, informing regulation and monitoring pollutants
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Alan Knee

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy (PhD)

Gravitational waves from eccentric binaries with LIGO and LISA
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Kaitlyn Zinn

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Cumulative effects of recreational catch-and-release, temperature, and infectious agents on Chinook salmon: from marine environments to spawning grounds
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Alexis Bahl

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography (PhD)

Salp diel vertical migration and its impact on carbon export in the Southern Ocean
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Pardis Semnani

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD)

Causal Inference and Density Estimation
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Zana Mody

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Counting blue carbon for coastal communities: understanding socio-ecological contexts of nature based climate solutions and mangrove restoration
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Rane Simpson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Highly-charged radioactive molecules: Amplifying sensitivity for new physics
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Milos Simovic

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD)

Ecophysiology of yellow-cedar decline

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Virginia (Ginny) Pichler

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Transmission dynamics and phenotype-genotype resistance mapping of mycobacteria
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Arman Hejazi

Agora Energy Technologies Ltd.

Master of Applied Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering (MASc)

Development of a point-of-use water treatment system for organic contaminant degradation
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Pardis Kazemian

Student

Master of Science in Medical Genetics (MSc)

Lipid nanoparticle-mediated delivery of CRISPR gene therapy to the brain
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Evan Warner

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Genome Science and Technology (PhD)

Genomic and epigenomic features of prostate tumors with high metastatic potential

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Helena Koniar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Physics (PhD)

Assessing the Dosimetry and Biodistribution of Actinium-225 for Targeted Alpha Therapy

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Sharada Balaji

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Characterizing white matter: Adventures with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging
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Bonnie Tulloch

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Do the ends justify the memes? Exploring the relationship between youth, internet memes, and digital citizenship
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Sepideh Soukhtehzari

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD)

Identification of polysialylated proteins in breast cancer and correlation with patient prognosis
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Deborah Good

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Timing Pulsars and Detecting Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME
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Asad Hasan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

The causes and consequences of evolutionary adaptation on genetic diversity, differentiation, and extinction risk
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Vanessa Zahner

Student

Master of Science in Oceanography (MSc)

Juvenile pink and chum salmon diets and species interactions
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Natasha Klasios

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Investigating the ecological impacts of microplastics and temperature warming in aquatic ecosystems
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Alexandria Shaw

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Investigating the molecular mechanisms of PI4KA regulation
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Michael Sekatchev

Student

Master of Science in Physics (MSc)

Axion quark nuggets versus excess galactic emissions
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Zitao Chen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Making machine learning reliable, secure and private
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Reid Merrill

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics (PhD)

Fluids and seismicity in northern Cascadia
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Melody Salehzadeh

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Local regulation of glucocorticoids in the nervous and immune systems
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Xunyu Liang

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Dark matter in form of the axion quark nuggets
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Madison Chapel

Student

Master of Science in Bioinformatics (MSc)

Evolution of gene regulatory networks

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Sarah Hanstock

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD)

The BUTOX Study: the role of the gut microbiome and BUTyrate in calcium OXalate kidney stone disease
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Christina Howard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Climate sensitive growth and suitability modeling of Québec tree species
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Dorothy Lin

Student

Master of Science in Medical Genetics (MSc)

The associations between prenatal bisphenol exposures and gestational epigenetic age acceleration in cord blood
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Connor Durfy

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)

Developing homogenous electrocatalysts for carbon dioxide conversion
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Raphael Roccor

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Spinning Straw into Golden Liquids – Making High-value Oils from Biomass Residues
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Baraa Orabi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD)

Design and complexity analysis of novel algorithms for annotation-independent detection of transcriptomic alternative splicing Isoforms using long-read sequencing
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Fatemeh Asadi Zeidabadi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)

Electrochemical degradation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water
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Yuveshen Mooroogen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD)

Geometric underpinnings of uncertainty principles for the Fourier transform
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Emilie Carpentier

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Four dimensional treatment planning for dynamic tumour tracking on a gimballed linear accelerator
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Arun Kumar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Investigating the role of SUMOylation in nuclear protein quality control
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Jake Felker

Student

Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology (MSc)

Investigating the antibacterial response of macrophages to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Caroline Stampliaka

Student

Master of Arts in Anthropology (MA)

An Ethnographic Exploration of Migratory Beekeeping in Greece
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Tessa Blanchard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Developmental Plasticity

French Name

Sciences naturelles

French Description

Cette division comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en sciences naturelles. Les sciences naturelles réfèrent aux disciplines scientifiques relevant de la compréhension, de l'exploration ou de l'évolution du monde matériel, dans le domaine des sciences naturelles, lequel inclut les mathématiques et la statistique; l'informatique et les sciences de l'information; les sciences physiques; les sciences chimiques; les sciences de la terre et de l'environnement; les sciences biologiques; et les autres sciences naturelles. La recherche consiste en l'investigation systématique par l'expérimentation ou l'analyse, afin de réaliser un progrès scientifique ou technologique, comme l'acquisition de nouvelles connaissances sur les fondements des phénomènes et des faits observables. Le développement expérimental consiste à réaliser de nouveaux biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés, ou d'améliorer substantiellement les biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés existants.