Marcus Elbert Villena, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend the thesis “Graph Attention Mechanisms for Modeling Pathway-Level Importance from Gene Expression” on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. The defence will take place in WH147.
The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Xiaojian Shao, External Examiner (National Research Council); and Tony Yan and Adonis Skandalis, Supervisory Committee Members.
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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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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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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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PhD in Biological Sciences
Ryan Douglas Hallam, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “Investigating β- and γ-secretase function and processing of APP with genetic and pharmacological tools” on Friday, August 29 at 11AM, in CRN 207.
The examination committee includes Philip Sullivan, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Margaret Fahnestock, External Examiner (McMaster University); Newman Sze, Internal External Examiner; Stephen Glasgow and Rebecca MacPherson, Committee Members.
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Wantao (Noah) Xiao, a Doctoral Candidate, will defend his thesis titled “In vitro Transcriptomic Biomarker Discovery for Psychedelic Tryptamines and Its Applications for High-throughput Drug Screening Platform Development” on Tuesday, August 12 at 11 AM. The defence will be held in closed format.
The examination committee includes Wendy Ward, Chair; Charles Després, Supervisor; Javier González-Maeso, External Examiner (Virginia Commonwealth University); Rebecca MacPherson, Internal External Examiner; and Jonathan Simone and Jim Willwerth, Committee Members.
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Danilo Giacometti, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “Physiological and behavioural responses to temperature and humidity in fossorial amphibians” on Monday, June 2 at 11 AM, in PL600F.
The examination committee includes Diane Mack, Chair; Glenn Tattersall, Supervisor; Donald B. Miles, External Examiner (Ohio University); Toby Mündel, Internal External Examiner; Miriam Richards and Kiyoko Gotanda, Committee Members.
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Oscar Villanueva, a Doctoral Candidate, will defend his thesis titled “Advancing detection, genomics, and secretome analysis of oomycete pathogens Phytophthora capsici and Phytopythium vexans to explore mechanisms of pathogenesis and biocontrol solutions” on Tuesday, May 20th, 9:30 AM, in PL600F.
The examination committee includes William Pickett, Chair; Alan Castle and Oualid Ellouz, Co-Supervisors; Edel Pérez-López, Ex
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Doctoral Thesis Defence in Biological Sciences
Arsala Ali, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend her thesis titled “Role of transposable elements in gene regulation” on Thursday, November 14th at 11:00 a.m., in Plaza 600F.
The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Ping Liang, Supervisor; Jinchuan Xing, External Examiner (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey); Ke Qiu, Internal Examiner; and Adonis Skandalis and Charles Després, Committee Members.
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Master of Science Thesis Defence in Biological Sciences
Rushirajsinh Vansiya, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “Plant virus detection and diversity in a mixed tree fruit orchard determined through metagenomic-based analysis of honeybee (Apis mellifera) collected samples” on Friday, Nov. 15 at 2 PM., virtually.
The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Jonathan Griffiths and Miriam Richards , Co-Supervisors; Trevor Charles, External Examiner (University of Waterloo); and Ping Liang, Committee Member.
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