Aliona Baradzenka, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Synthesis and Reactivity of Low Valent Silicon and Phosphorus Compounds” on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m., in Plaza 600F.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Georgii Nikonov, Supervisor; John D. Protasiewicz, External Examiner (Case Western Reserve University); Maureen Reedyk, Internal External Examiner; Tony Yan and Costa Metallinos, Committee Members.
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Juana Goulart Stollmaier, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Enzymatic Studies of Bromocyclohexadienediols & Semi-Synthesis of Narciclasine Analogues” on Tuesday, July 26 at 1 p.m., in Plaza 600F.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Jeffrey Atkinson, Supervisor; David Gonzalez, External Examiner (Universidad de la República (UdelaR)); Francine McCarthy, Internal External Examiner; Paul Zelisko and Melanie Pilkington, Committee Members.
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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.
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Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence
Anton Dmitrienko, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Reactivity of Aluminum Carbenoid with Unsaturated Substrates” on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 1 p.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Georgii Nikonov, Supervisor; Eric Rivard, External Examiner (University of Alberta); David Crandles, Internal External Examiner; Martin Lemaire and Heather Gordon, Committee Members.
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Nico Bonnano, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Design of Redox-active Ligands: In Pursuit of Stable Radicals, their Complexes, and Assembly of Paramagnetic Coordination Clusters” on Friday, June 11, 2021 at 11 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Martin Lemaire, Supervisor; Tim Storr, External Examiner (Simon Fraser University); Maureen Reedyk, Internal External Examiner; Tomas Hudlicky and Georgii Nikonov, Committee Members.
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Ivor Smajlagic, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Synthesis of Cyclopropenium-Appended Organocatalysts and Applications” on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 1 p.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Michael K. Denk, External Examiner (University of Guelph); Francine McCarthy, Internal External Examiner; Arthur van der Est and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.
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Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence
Guan (Alex) Wang, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Dynamic DNA Nanotechnology for Probing Single Nucleotide Variants and DNA Modifications” on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 11 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Feng Li, Supervisor; Hanadi Sleiman, External Examiner (McGill University); Jeff Stuart, Internal External Examiner; Melanie Pilkington and Georgii Nikonov, Committee Members.
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Master of Science thesis defence
Bhavana Uppalapati, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Synthetic Approaches to C-1 Derivatives of Pancratistatin” on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 9:30 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Tomas Hudlicky, Supervisor; James McNulty, External Examiner (McMaster University); and Hongbin (Tony) Yan and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.
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Master of Science thesis defence
Connor Li, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “IMPROVING BWA-MEM WITH GPU PARALLEL COMPUTING” on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Ke Qiu and Ping Liang, Co-Supervisors; Yifeng Li, External Examiner (Brock University); and Sheridan Houghten and Robson de Grande, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Yasaman Hosseini, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Synthesis and Evaluation of Trans-bilayer Cross Linking Phospholipids Based on Click (Azide-alkyne) Chemistry” on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Jeffrey Atkinson, Supervisor; Vincenzo De Luca, External Examiner (Brock University, Dept. of Biological Sciences); and Feng Li and Tomas Hudlicky, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Brenden Matthew Carlson, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Hydroamidation of Vinyl Ethers by Acid-Catalyzed
Multicomponent Isocyanide Addition” on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Ryan Hili, External Examiner (York University); and Melanie Pilkington and Costa Metallinos, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Ngan (Nan) Tran, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “N–Phenyl Pyrroloimidazolone Derivatives for Stereoselective Birch Reduction and Chiral NHC–Iridium Complexation” on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. The defence will take place virtually.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Costa Metallinos, Supervisor; Ian Pottie, External Examiner (Mount St. Vincent University); and Tomas Hudlicky and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.
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