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.
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Hung Chao Mike Chang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Energy Distribution of Thermal Electron Emission
Wednesday, 15 May 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Nikola Markovic
Department: Music
Between East and West - The Voice of Miloje Milojevic
Thursday, 16 May 2024 - 9:30am - Room 203
Ian David MacPhail-Bartley
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Control of Molecular Rotation in Superfluid Helium
Thursday, 16 May 2024 - 10:00am - E404, Shaughnessy Building, BC Children's and Women's Hospital, 4500 Oak St
Kayleigh Campbell
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure and Associations with Fetal-Newborn Neurobehaviour and Early Brain Connectivity
Friday, 17 May 2024 - 10:00am - 2012, Ponderosa Commons Oak House, 6445 University Blvd
Donald Jean Poirier
Department: Educational Studies
Community-University Engagement in Canada: Boundary Spanner Practice
Friday, 17 May 2024 - 1:30pm - Zoom
Bryan Fraser
Department: Oncology
Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Type 2 Transmembrane Serine Proteases
Tuesday, 21 May 2024 - 9:00am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Joaquin Henriquez
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Characterization and Functional Perturbation of the Adult Dentition of Leopard Gecko
Tuesday, 21 May 2024 - 10:30am - 14th Floor Meeting Room, Bc Cancer Research Centre, 675 West 10th Ave, Vancouver, V5Z 1L3
Shreya Bendre
Department: Oncology
Fibroblast Activation Protein-Targeted Radioligands for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Wednesday, 22 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Rik Johannes Gerardus Nuijten
Department: Forestry
Characterizing Ecosystem Attributes Relevant for Restoration Assessment in Early Successional Forests Using Drone-Based Remote Sensing Approaches
Wednesday, 22 May 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Luis Alejandro Rojas-Bernal
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Production Network Economies with Household Heterogeneity: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Thursday, 23 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Sabrina Scott
Department: Chemistry
Commodity Polymers to Functional Aminated Materials by Hydroaminoalkylation Postpolymerization Modification
Thursday, 23 May 2024 - 12:00pm - Room 203
Ken Morimoto
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Walking an A/r/tographic Garden: Propositions with Art Education, Curriculum Theory, and Love
Monday, 27 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Francesca Pegorer
Department: Anthropology
The Eye of the Storm: A Postmigrant Perspective on the Atmospheres of Berlin
Monday, 27 May 2024 - 9:30am - D213, Chemistry D Block, 2036 Main Mall
Katherine Dawn Krause
Department: Chemistry
Spectroscopy and Surface Chemistry in the Design of Fluorescent Nanomaterials for Biosensing
Monday, 27 May 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Brandon Marshall Tomm
Department: Psychology
Psychological Consequences of Financial Scarcity
Monday, 27 May 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Mikhail Chernobai
Department: Mathematics
On Problems of Regularity and Existence for Critical Drift Elliptic Equations and Navier-Stokes Equations
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 - 10:00am - Room 200
Jessica Quinton
Department: Forestry
Assessing the Link(s) Between Urban Greening and Gentrification in Canadian Cities
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Atefeh Daemi
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Transfer Learning via Gaussian Process and Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis and its Application in Real-World Industry Data
Thursday, 30 May 2024 - 10:00am - 203, Mathematics Building, 1984 Mathematics Road
Chi Hoi Yip
Department: Mathematics
Topics in Arithmetic Combinatorics
Thursday, 30 May 2024 - 12:30pm - 4223, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd
Jarrett Blair
Department: Zoology
Computer Vision as a Tool to Automate Specimen Classification in Large-Scale Ecological Research
Thursday, 30 May 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Elodie Sauge
Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Pleiotropism of Losartan and its Metabolites Against Cardiopulmonary Diseases: Small Chemical Differences, Major Biological Impacts
Friday, 31 May 2024 - 9:00am - 2108, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave
Shayda Swann
Department: MD/PhD Program
Reproductive Health, Hormones, and Age-Related Conditions Among Women Living with HIV
Friday, 31 May 2024 - 9:00am - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Calvin (Zhuhan) Qiao
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Investigating Cerebellar Involvement in the Adaptability of Standing Balance Control Using a Robotic Platform and Electroencephalography
Friday, 31 May 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Athanasios Kritharis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Development of a Minimal Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System for Industrial Scale Production of Bordetella Pertussis Antigens Fimbriae 2 and 3
Monday, 3 June 2024 - 9:00am - 506, Frank Forward Building, 6350 Stores Road
Mohammad Amin Shadi Diznab
Department: Mining Engineering
Energy Effectiveness of Microwave Preconditioning Applications in Mining
Monday, 3 June 2024 - 10:00am - 337, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Dan Kehila
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Social Evolution of Microbial Metabolism in Some Natural Populations and Laboratory Consortia
Tuesday, 4 June 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Corinne Grunder Bassett
Department: Forestry
Bridging Gaps in Urban Forest Management to Achieve Urban Sustainability Goals
Tuesday, 4 June 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Juanita Chastity Desjarlais-Smith
Department: Educational Studies
Iskotew: Fire - Keeping the Fire Lit Indigenous Iskotwew (Women) Leading in Decolonizing Education Systems
Wednesday, 5 June 2024 - 1:00pm - Room 200
Callista Anne Ottoni
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
"We Dodge Each Other Smiling": Older Adults' Social Connectedness and Everyday Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Thursday, 6 June 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Saori Ogura
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
The Meaning of Traditional Small Grains Cultivation: Generational Wisdom, Well-Being, and Food Security
Thursday, 6 June 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Avril Metcalfe-Roach
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Diet and the Microbiome in Parkinson's Disease
Thursday, 6 June 2024 - 3:00pm - Room 203
Kate Kysow
Department: Psychology
Understanding Hoarding Clean-Outs: A Public Scholar Approach
Friday, 7 June 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Emmy (Amal Ali) Alharbi
Department: Nursing
Adaptation and Validation of the U.S. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2.0 (SOPS): The Saudi Version
Monday, 10 June 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa
Department: Asian Studies
Accessing Power and Knowledge Through Women's Sexual Writing in Modern Japan: Education, Recreation, and the R-18 Literary Prize
Tuesday, 11 June 2024 - 2:30pm - Zoom
Nathalie Suzanne Sagar
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
"It Doesn't Have to be One Thing or the Other" Stories of Second-Generation Bipolar Disorder
Wednesday, 12 June 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Vanessa Bork
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
The Influence of Intergenerational Knowledge on Adult Adoptee Sense of Self
Wednesday, 12 June 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Vincent Guy Clement Billy
Department: Zoology
Diversity of Intestinal Eukaryotes With a Focus on Blastocystis, Its Relationships With Gut Bacteria and Consequences for the Host Health
Friday, 14 June 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Anita Moein
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Quantitative Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling to Optimize Targeted PI3K-AKT-mTOR Oncology Therapeutics Development
Monday, 17 June 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Dayana Gabriela Barragan Altamirano
Department: Forestry
Planning Forests for the Future: Incorporating Multiple Goals in Forest Restoration Initiatives
Monday, 17 June 2024 - 1:30pm - 167, Iona Building, 6000 Iona Dr
Yige Duan
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Worker Mobility, Spatial Labor Markets, and Urban Real Estate Markets
Tuesday, 18 June 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Condurache Matei Vacariu
Department: Chemistry
Synthesis of Tools for Studying the AmpG Pore Protein Involved in Antibiotic Resistance
Thursday, 20 June 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Xiyue Li
Department: Sauder School of Business
Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Monday, 24 June 2024 - 9:00am - 1312, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Peter Grin
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Protease Regulation of Disease: SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro is Secreted and Cleaves Interferon-Lambdas, and MMP12 Regulates Substrates in Age-Related Fatty Liver Disease
Monday, 24 June 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Daniel Aaron Yates
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Advances in Decay Spectroscopy of 160Gd and Developments for Transfer Experiments Using Radioactive Isotope Beams
Monday, 24 June 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Aparna Gopal
Department: Oncology
Understanding the Pathophysiology of Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Lymphoma: From Innate Immune Dysregulation to Therapy Resistance
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 - 12:30pm - D213, Chemistry D Block, 2036 Main Mall
Jerome Sebastian Claveria Lozada
Department: Chemistry
The Development of 18F-Fluorescent-RBF3 PET Tracers, New Radioprosthetic Trifluoroborates, and the Use of Tetrafluoroborate Salts for Organotrifluoroborate Synthesis
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 - 9:00am - 293, Jack Bell Research Centre, 2660 Oak St
Maxim Kobelev
Department: Experimental Medicine
Prostate Cancer Lineage Plasticity is Associated with an Altered MYC/MAX Cistrome Through Super-Enhancer Remodeling
Friday, 28 June 2024 - 12:30pm - 1312, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Sydney Holme
Department: Medical Genetics
Mechanisms that Regulate the Activity of the NRAS Depalmitoylase ABHD17
Friday, 5 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Fanze Kong
Department: Mathematics
Global Well-Posedness and Localized Patterns of Several Reaction-Diffusion Systems Involving Advection
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom
Sebastian Gomez Cardona
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Household Finance