Alex will present her thesis, "An Evaluation of Genomic Prediction in Barley Preliminary Yield Trials".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Steffen Graether
Advisor - Dr. Lewis Lukens
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Flavio Schenkel
Departmental Examiner - Dr. Istvan Rajcan
Andrew will present his thesis, "Sampling Requirements for Standardized Insect Biodiversity Monitoring Vary with Abundance". Another copy is attached for your review, along with the Defence Guidelines.
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Chris Caruso
Advisor - Dr. John Fryxell
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Dirk Steinke
Departmental Examiner - Dr. Bob Hanner
Keoni will present his thesis, "Navigating turbulence: the effects of eddy size on the swimming performance of walleye (Sander vitreus) larvae".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Cort Griswold
Advisor - Dr. Joe Ackerman
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Yingming Zhao
Departmental Examiner - Dr. Karl Cottenie
Lucie will present her thesis, "Let’s Talk About the Wasps and the Bees: A Diet and Climate Perspective".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Jinzhong Fu
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Andrew MacDougall
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Dirk Steinke
Departmental Examiner - Dr. Andrew Young
Elias will present his thesis, "Thyroid hormones regulate skeletogenesis and metamorphosis in diverse echinoderms (sea urchins, sea stars, and brittle stars)".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Georgia Mason
Advisor - Dr. Andreas Heyland
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Terry Van Raay
Additional Examiner - Dr. Glen Van Der Kraak
External Examiner - Dr. Vance Trudeau (University of Ottawa)
Kaitlyn will present her thesis, "Detection of Antibiotic Residues in Milk Using Near-Infrared Spectra and Machine Learning Modelling".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Steffen Graether
Advisor - Dr. Dan Tulpan
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Ricardo Ventura
Departmental Examiner- Dr. Flavio Schenkel
Colin will present his thesis, "Environmental Determinants of Phenology in High Latitude Plants".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Dan Grunspan
Advisor - Dr. Andrew MacDougall
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Christina Caruso
Additional Examiner - Dr. Edeline Gagnon
External Examiner - Dr. Isla Myers-Smith (University of British Columbia)
Jianfei will present his thesis, "Experimental studies on the effects of soil nutrients, AM fungi and drought on the evolution of root morphology and function".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Cortland Griswold
Advisor - Dr. Hafiz Maherali
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Brian Husband
Additional Examiner - Dr. Steve Crawford
External Examiner - Dr. Courtney J Murren (College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Pria will present her thesis, "Environmental and ecological factors, but not agricultural activity, are associated with brain form in a wild
stream fish".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Kevin McCann
Advisor - Dr. Fred Laberge
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Ryan Prosser
Additional Examiner - Dr. Sarah Alderman
External Examiner - Dr. Barbara Zielinski (University of Windsor)
Josip will present his thesis, "Applying Multivariate Decision Trees to Visualize, Select Features, and Gain Insights into Biodiversity Genomics Datasets ".
The examination committee includes:
Chair - Dr. Sarah Adamowicz
Advisor - Dr. Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Advisory Committee Examiner - Dr. Stefan Kremer
Additional Examiner - Dr. Andrew Hamilton-Wright
External Examiner - Dr. Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University