Aishabibi Kassymbek, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Reactivity of a Low Valent Gallium Compound” on Monday, January 17, 2022 at 9:30 am, virtually.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Georgii Nikonov, Supervisor; Paul J. Ragogna, External Examiner (Western University); Wendy Ward, Internal External Examiner; Martin Lemaire and Heather Gordon, Supervisory Committee Members.
Chemistry, FMS, Thesis defence
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Doctoral thesis defence in Biotechnology
Dhruval Joshi, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend his thesis titled “A. Regulation of B-/Z-DNA transition in modified oligonucleotides. B. Synthesis of cationic BODIPY analogues for antimicrobial and anticancer applications” on Friday, January 7, 2022 at 1 pm, virtually.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Tony Yan, Supervisor; Maria DeRosa, External Examiner (Carleton University); Thad Harroun, Internal External Examiner; Doug Bruce and Costa Metallinos, Supervisory Committee Members.
Doctoral thesis defence in Biological Sciences
Fereshteh Moradi, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Investigating the Effect of Cell culture Compositions on Mitochondrial Metabolism, Dynamics, and Transcriptome and Proteome of cells” on Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 11 am, virtually.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Jeff Stuart, Supervisor; Jim Uniacke, External Examiner (University of Guelph); Val A. Fajardo, Internal External Examiner; Gaynor Spencer and Rebecca MacPherson, Supervisory Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Luc J. Wasilewicz, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “Investigating the modulation of Drosophila melanogaster body-wall muscle contraction by the neuropeptide DPKQDFMRFamide” on Tuesday, Dec 21, 2021 at 1 p.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Thad Harroun, Chair; Joffre Mercier, Supervisor; Rosa da Silva, External Examiner (Dept. of Biology, McMaster University); and Cheryl McCormick and Gaynor Spencer, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Emilia Rutkowski, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Weighted Graph Compression using Genetic Algorithms” on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021 at 9 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Sheridan Houghten, Supervisor; Ke Qiu, External Examiner; and Brian J. Ross and Joseph A. Brown, Committee Members.
Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence
Biljana Indovski, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend her thesis titled “Structural, Magnetic, Dielectric, and Optical Properties of DyCrO3 and GeNi2O4 Materials” on Friday, Dec 3, 2021 at 2 pm, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Fereidoon S. Razavi and Maureen Reedyk, Co-Supervisors; John Wei, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Melanie Pilkington, Internal External Examiner; Thad Harroun, Supervisory Committee Member.
Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Physics, Thesis defence
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Master of Science thesis defence
Pawel Jocko, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Multi-Guide Particle Swarm Optimisation for Dynamic Multi-objective Optimisation Problems” on Monday, Nov 8, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Kyle Harrison, External Examiner (UNSW Canberra, Australia); and Brian J. Ross and Ali Emami, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Robert Martin, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “The development of a new genetic test for grapevine cultivars using a computational genomics approach” on Friday, Nov. 12 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Ping Liang, Supervisor; Matthew Clark, External Examiner (University of Minnesota); and Debbie Inglis and Jim Willwerth, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Tyler Cowan, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Strategies for Evolving Diverse and Effective Behaviours in Pursuit Domains” on Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Brian J. Ross, Supervisor; Joseph Alexander Brown, External Examiner (Innopolis University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Michael Winter, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Jordan Antonio Mervyn Maslen, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Mixed Media in Evolutionary Art” on Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 at 2 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Brian J. Ross, Supervisor; Stephen Brooks, External Examiner (Dalhousie University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Ali Emami, Committee Members.
