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  • April 23 – PhD Thesis Defence – Gabriele Delle Monache

    Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | By

    Gabriele Delle Monache, a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Polynuclear Clusters of Heterometallic 3d/4f and Homometallic 3d Single Molecule Magnets: Syntheses, Optical and Magnetostructural Studies” on Thursday, April 23rd at 11:15 AM.

    The examination committee includes David Butz, Chair; Melanie Pilkington, Supervisor; Chris Kozak, External Examiner (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Gavin Hester, Internal External Examiner; Martin Lemaire and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.

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  • April 14 – MSc. Thesis Defence – Nicholas Holditch

    Friday, April 10, 2026 | By

    Nicholas Holditch, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend his thesis titled “Investigating Lipase Stability in Hydrophobic Solvent at Extreme Temperatures: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Candida Antarctica Lipase B in Polydimethylsiloxane” on Tuesday, April 14 at 9:30 AM, in WH147.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Thad Harroun and Peter Berg, Co-Supervisors; Régis Pomès, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Edward Sternin, Committee Member.

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  • March 4 – PhD Thesis defence – Melanie Denommé Stauder

    Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | By

    Melanie Denommé Stauder, a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Analyzing common husbandry practices and potential indicators of welfare in Pogona vitticeps ” on Wednesday, March 4 at 10 AM, in Plaza 600F.

    The examination committee includes Michael Owen, Chair; Glenn Tattersall, Supervisor; Noam Miller, External Examiner (Wilfrid Laurier University); Dustin Duncan, Internal External Examiner; Cheryl McCormick, Gaynor Spencer, and Georgia Mason (University of Guelph), Committee Members.

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  • Jan 28 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Hedieh Lotfian

    Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | By

    Hedieh Lotfian, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend the thesis titled “Catalytic and Non-Catalytic Hydroetherification-type Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds” on Wednesday, January 28 at 12 PM, in Plaza 601C.  

    The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Sherry Chemler (University at Buffalo), External Examiner; and Georgii Nikonov and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.

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  • Thesis Defence – Jan 1 – 27 2026

    Thursday, January 01, 2026 | By

    MSc in Biological Sciences

    Jacob Wiebe, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend the thesis titled “Physiological Oxygen and Media Conditions Influence Breast Cancer Hallmarks in Vitro” on Monday, January 19 at 9:45 AM, in Plaza 601C.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Jeff Stuart, Supervisor; Rebecca MacPherson (Department of Health Sciences), External Examiner; and Tony Yan and Ping Liang, Committee Members.

    MSc in Physics

    Rachit Kapoor, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend the thesis titled “Quantum Magnetism Under Disorder: A Study of the Bismuth Rare-Earth Germanates” on Monday, January 19 at 11:30 AM, in Plaza 600F.

    The examination committee includes Maureen Reedyk, Chair; Gavin Hester, Supervisor; Pat Clancy (McMaster University), External Examiner; and Ganesh Ramachandran and Jasneet Kaur, Committee Members.

    MSc in Biological Sciences

    Chanille Ubias, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend the thesis titled “Investigating the Post-Translational Modification of Notch1 Intracellular Domain: From Proteolytic Cleavage to Mass Spectrometric Profiling” on Tuesday, January 20 at 11 AM, in Plaza 601C.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Newman S-K. Sze (Department of Health Sciences), External Examiner; and Val Andrew Fajardo and Rebecca MacPherson, Committee Members.

    MSc in Chemistry

    Donya Shahmoradi, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend the thesis titled “Conjugation of oligonucleotides for drug delivery via a linker derived from Meldrum’s acid and A capture-release method to synthesize long oligonucleotides” on Thursday, January 22 at 2 PM, in Plaza 600F.

    The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Tony Yan, Supervisor; Russell D. Viirre (Toronto Metropolitan University), External Examiner; and Jianbo Gao and Dustin Duncan, Committee Members.

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  • Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series presents: New insights into the mechanisms and functions of mitochondrial derived vesicles.

    Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | By

    Prof. Heidi McBride, PhD FRSC
    Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
    Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

    November 7, 2025 from 13h00–14h00 EST
    Room RFP 214/215

    Dr. McBride is a Professor at McGill University in the Montreal Neurological Institute. Her work focuses on the molecular mechanisms and function of mitochondrial dynamics. She has contributed to our understanding of the fundamental behavior of the mitochondria, including fusion, fission, and the generation of mitochondrial derived vesicles (MDVs).

    This seminar will focus on her recent work studying how mitochondrial derived vesicles play key regulatory roles contributing to cellular transitions, including metabolic, immune pathways, and cell death transitions. The discussion will include new work on MDV roles in Parkinson’s disease pathways that highlight the role of the mitochondria as a unique signaling platform in the cell.

    Undergraduate and graduate students are free to attend a trainee lunch with Dr. McBride from 11h45–12h45 prior to the seminar in room MC F237.

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  • Nov 4 – STAT 5P99 Presentation – Srushti Dhavalkumar Desai

    Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | By

    Srushti Dhavalkumar Desai, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will present the MRP (STAT 5P99) titled “Graph-Theoretical Analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain: Weighted vs. Binary Representations” on Tuesday, November 4 at 11:30 am, in MC D404.

    The examination committee includes William Marshall, Supervisor; and Xiaojian Xu, Supervisory Committee Member.

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  • Oct 17 – Master of Science thesis defence – Nadia Karimzadeh

    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | By

    Nadia Karimzadeh, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend the thesis titled “Scalable and Reliable GNN-based

    Network Traffic Management in Software-Defined Vehicular Networks” on Friday, October 17 at 10am, in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Robson de Grande, Supervisor; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, External Examiner; and Renata Dividino, Committee Member.

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  • Oct 20 – Doctoral Thesis Defence – Chemistry

    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | By

    Doctoral thesis defence in the Department of Chemistry

     

    Zackery C. Watts, a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “N,N,O- and O,N,O- Diarylazo Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, and Pathways to Spin Crossover Conductors” on Monday, October 20th, 1:30 PM, in PL600F.

     

    The examination committee includes Litsa Tsiani, Chair; Martin Lemaire, Supervisor; Michael Shatruk, External Examiner (Florida State University); David Crandles, Internal External Examiner; and Art van der Est and Melanie Pilkington, Committee Members.

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  • Sept 16 – PhD Thesis Defence – Marvel Megaly

    Friday, September 12, 2025 | By

    PhD in Biological Sciences thesis defence

    Marvel Megaly, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis “Investigating the role of Notch signalling during mesoderm development and cell proliferation” on Tuesday, Sep. 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The defence will take place in CAIRNS 207.

    The examination committee members are Kimberley Gammage, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Allan Albig, External Examiner (Boise State University); Rebecca MacPherson, Internal Examiner; and Gaynor Spencer and Robert Carlone, Advisory Committee.

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