{"id":43581,"date":"2017-02-15T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43581"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:28:28","slug":"math-science-phd-thesis-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/math-science-phd-thesis-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"Math &#038; Science PhD thesis defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Math &amp; Science PhD candidates will defend their theses next week.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry PhD candidate Van Hung Mai will defend his thesis Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 9 a.m. in CRN207. His thesis is titled<em> Half-sandwich Complexes of Ruthenium Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis and Application to Catalysis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His examination committee members are: Dr. David Ditor, Chair; Dr. R. Tom Baker (University of Ottawa), External Examiner; Dr. Georgii Nikonov, Supervisor; Dr. Kirill Samokhin, Internal Examiner; Dr. Martin Lemaire and Dr. Heather Gordon; Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelbaset Yagubi in Biological Sciences will defend his PhD thesis Friday, Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. in CRN207. His thesis is titled <em>Phage-mediated biological control of Erwinia amylovora:\u00a0The role of CRISPRs and exopolysaccharide<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee members are: Dr. Adam MacNeil, Chair; Dr. Jeffrey Jones (University of Florida), External Examiner; Dr. Alan Castle and Dr. Antonet Svircev, Supervisors; Dr. Ana Sanchez, Internal Examiner; Dr. Charles Despres and Dr. Ping Liang; Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Math &#038; Science PhD candidates will defend their theses next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43583,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581\/revisions\/43583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}