Articles tagged with: Thesis defence

  • Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Defence – Tahereh Afsharvosoughi – May 26

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    Tahereh Afsharvosoughi, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend her thesis titled “Structural, Magnetic and Vibrational Studies of Entropy Stabilized Oxides” on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 11 a.m., in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; David A. Crandles, Supervisor; Jiri Hlinka, External Examiner (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences); Martin Lemaire, Internal External Examiner; Maureen Reedyk and Fereidoon Razavi, Committee Members.

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  • Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Defence – Danielle Williams – May 27

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    Danielle Williams, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend her thesis titled “Discovery of a novel cytochrome P450, (+)-vincadifformine 19-hydroxylase (V19H), distinguishes separate branch pathways forming aspidosperma-type monoterpenoid indole alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus roots” on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 9 a.m., in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Vincenzo De Luca, Supervisor; Peter J. Facchini, External Examiner (University of Calgary); Rebecca MacPherson, Internal External Examiner; David Liscombe and Feng Li, Supervisory Committee Members.

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  • Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Defence – Nico Bonnano – June 11

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    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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  • Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence – Shasha Hu – June 2

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    Shasha Hu, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Metarhizium robertsii interactions with Phaseolus vulgaris (Haricot Bean)” on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 3 p.m., in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Michael Bidochka, Supervisor; Travis Glare, External Examiner (Lincoln University, New Zealand); Rick Cheel, Internal External Examiner; David Liscombe and Alan Castle, Supervisory Committee Members.

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  • Master of Science Thesis Defence – Bahareh Yavarizadeh – May 4

    Master of Science thesis defence

    Bahareh Yavarizadeh, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will defend her thesis titled “Some New Estimators in Linear Mixed Models with Measurement error” on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 11:30 a.m., in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; S. Ejaz Ahmed, Supervisor; Xuewen Lu, External Examiner (University of Calgary); and Jan Vrbik and Pouria Ramazi, Committee Members.

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  • Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Defence – Ivor Smajlagic – April 30

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    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 – April 27

    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 – April 21

    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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  • March 4 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Eunike Hilson

    Master of Science thesis defence

    Eunike Ilona (Ilona) Hilson, a Master of Science candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend her thesis titled “Analysis of cellular responses to microwave irradiation in E. coli and change of oxygen level and culture medium in human cancer cell lines using RNA-seq based transcriptomic profiling” on Thursday, March 4, 2021, at 9 a.m. in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Ping Liang, Supervisor; Qianqian Zhu, External Examiner (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, NY); and Jeffrey Stuart and Hongbin (Tony) Yan, Committee Members.

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  • March 12 – Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence – Steven C. Gayder – Biotechnology

    Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence

    Steven C. Gayder, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend his thesis titled “Interactions and Population Dynamics Between Erwinia amylovoraPantoea agglomerans, and their Bacteriophages for Effective Phage Therapy” on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1 p.m., in virtual format.

    The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Alan Castle and Antonet Svircev, Co-Supervisors; Jason J. Gill, External Examiner (Texas A&M University); Ana Sanchez, Internal External Examiner; Jeffrey Atkinson and Jonathan Griffiths, Committee Members.

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