Articles tagged with: FMS

  • Thesis Defence – Jan 1 – 27 2026

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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Sept 4 – MSc Thesis Defence – Ghazal Khodabandeh

    Ghazal Khodabandeh, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Link Prediction on Distributed Systems” on Thursday, September 4 at 9:30 AM, in MC D404.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Rahnuma Islam Nishat, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.

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  • Sept 2 – MSc Thesis Defence – Nujitha Ransika Wickramasurendra

    Nujitha Ransika Wickramasurendra, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “BERT-Based Intrusion Detection System for RF Jamming Attacks in Vehicular Network” on Tuesday, September 2 at 1 PM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Glaucio H.S. de Carvalho, Supervisor; Shengrong Bu, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.

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  • Aug 20 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Tong Zhang

    Tong Zhang, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Energy Observability in Large Language Models: A Multi-Layered Approach” on Wednesday, August 20 at 11 AM in GSB 305.

    The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner (Brock University); and Yifeng Li , Committee Member

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  • Aug 19 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Seyed Alireza Ezaz

    Seyed Alireza Ezaz, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “TAAF: A Trace Abstraction and Analysis Framework Synergizing Knowledge Graphs and LLMs” on Tuesday, August 19 at 1 PM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Heng Li, External Examiner (Polytechnique Montreal); and Renata Queiroz Dividino, Committee Member.

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  • Aug 29 – PhD Thesis Defence – Ryan Douglas Hallam

    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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