Mery Perez presents her qualifying exam seminar on “Indigenous Music Festivals as Communication for Social and Environmental Change: The Case of Nicaragua’s Unidos Por Bosawas Festival” for her PhD in rural studies. Everyone is welcome. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Paul Chorley, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "A Model for Sustainable Design: An Urban Agriculture Autoethnography." The adviser is Prof. Robert Brown. Time: 1 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Abdalla Albeely, an M.Sc. candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will defend his thesis on "Termination of Ribosomal RNA Transcript by RNA Polymerase I in Schizosaccharomyces pombe." His advisers are Profs. Andrew Bendall and Ross Nazar. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 2315

Dylan Harding, an M.Sc. candidate in the Department of Plant Agriculture, will defend his thesis on "Effects of Bacterial Endophytes from the Genus Zea on Non-native Host Species in the Context of Application to Biological Weed Control." All are welcome to attend. Time: 9 a.m. Location: Crop Science, Room 202

Maureen Mundia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will defend her thesis on "Analysis of the Genetic Requirements for Rad51-mediated 3’ Polymerization During DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination." The adviser is Prof. Mark Baker. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511

Laura Williams, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "Floral Lawns: Developing and Evaluating a Residential Lawn Alternative for Southern Ontario." The adviser is Prof. Robert Brown. All are welcome to attend. Time: 10 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Keith Cutten, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Exploring the Evolution of Golf Course Architecture." The adviser is Prof. Robert Brown. Time: 3:45 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Scott Cafarella, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Urban Open Space Planning in Southern Ontario: Lessons From the Red Hill Valley Project." The adviser is Prof. Karen Landman. All are welcome to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Chevonne Carlow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will defend her thesis on "Analysis of the Vitis CBF Genes and Their Potential Roles in Both the CBF and Stomatal Development Pathways." Her adviser is Prof. Annette Nassuth.  Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 2315

Farouq Ayiworoh, a master's student in capacity development and extension in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "An Exploratory Case Study of HIV/AIDS Related Stigma in Rural Ghana." The adviser is Prof. Helen Hambly Odame. All are welcome to attend. Time: 9 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Alexander Waffle, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Urban Agricultural Hot Spots: Taking Advantage of the Urban Heat Island for Production of Warmer-Climate Crops." The adviser is Prof. Robert Brown. Time: 1 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Calen Hamelin, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "The Potential of Lost Space: Identifying, Classifying and Transforming Urban Food Void Space." The adviser is Prof. Larry Harder. All are welcome to attend. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Tim O'Brien, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as Remote Sensors: An Effective Interpretation Tool for Wetland Mapping." The adviser is Prof. Cecelia Paine. All are welcome to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 202

Kearney Coupland, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "Models of Good Design: The Role of Landscape Architects in Public Interest Design."  The adviser is Prof. Karen Landman. All are welcome to attend. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Adina Bujold, a PhD candidate in the Department of Pathobiology, will defend her thesis on "Role of Actinobacillus suis Adhesions in Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Tonsils of the Soft Palate of Swine." The adviser is Prof. Janet MacInnes. Examination committee: Prof. Eva Nagy, chair Prof. Janet MacInnes, Pathobiology Prof. Marc Coppolino, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Allison Taziar, an M.Sc. thesis candidate in the Department of Plant Agriculture, will defend her thesis on "The Suitability of Sulfentrazone and Pyroxasulfone for Ontario Dry Bean Production." All are welcome to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Crop Science, Room 202

Shirene Singh, a PhD candidate in the Department of Pathobiology, will defend her thesis on "Enhancement of Avian Influenza Virus Vaccines in Chickens Through Identification and Application of Novel Mucosal Adjuvants." The adviser is Prof. Shayan Sharif. Examination committee: Prof. Patrick Boerlin, chair Prof. Shayan Sharif, Pathobiology Prof. Eva Nagy, Pathobiology Prof. Byram Bridle, Pathobiology Prof. Arshud Dar, VIDO,

Scott Mazurkewich, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will defend his thesis on "Characterization of the 4-carboxy-2-hydroxymuconate hydratase and the 4-carboxy-4-hydroxy-2-oxoadipate/4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-oxoglutarate aldolase from Pseudomonas putida." His adviser is Prof. Stephen Seah. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511

Martin King, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, will defend his thesis on "Scientific Explanation: Towards a Neo-Deductivist Account." His adviser is Prof. Andrew Wayne. Time: 10 a.m. Location: MacKinnon Building, Room 346

Corey Dawson, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "The Role of Landscape Architecture in Landform Grading: Terrain Complexity Index." The adviser is Prof. Robert Corry. All are welcome to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Christian Stewart, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Path as Place: Exploring the Concept of Place in Toronto's Grade-Separated Pedestrian Network."  The adviser is Prof. Nathan Perkins. All are welcome to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Megan Thomas, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "Connecting Youth With Nature: Exploring the Viability of a Nation-Wide Youth Conservation Program in Canada". The adviser is Prof. Sean Kelly. All are welcome to attend. Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room

Interested members of the University community are invited to attend the final oral examination of Olutobi Oluwole, Department of Biomedical Sciences, who will defend her thesis on "Testis Specific Protein Y Encoded and Genome Wide Copy Number Variation and Changes in Individual Bulls." Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: http://www.uoguelph.ca/campus/map/biomedicalsci/ OVC Biomedical Sciences, Room 1642

Han "Joe" Yao, a master of science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis on "A study of the mechanical forces induced by low-energy (10-100 eV) electron irradiation of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111)." Time: 10 a.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511

Zhenhua Xu, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will defend his thesis on "The Role of Anthocyanins and the GATA Transcription Factors GNC and CGA1 in the Plant Response to Stress." The adviser is Prof. Steven Rothstein. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511

Leah Soroka, a PhD candidate in rural studies in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "How Foresight Can Operationalize the Notion of Sustainability." The adviser is Prof. Al Lauzon. All are welcome to attend. Time: 1 p.m. Location: Landscape Architecture, Room 143

Casey Ford, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, will defend his thesis on "The Logic of Vanishing: Becoming in Hegel and Deleuze." His adviser is Prof. Peter Eardley and co-adviser is Prof. Jay Lampert. Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: MacKinnon Building, Room 346

Brittany Pequegnat, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis on "Polysaccharide Vaccines for Enteric Pathogens: The Next Generation Multivalent Diarrhea Vaccine." Time: 10 a.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511

Sherri Tedford, an M.Sc. student in the Department of Plant Agriculture, will defend her thesis on "Management of Cercospora leaf spot in sugar beet and aerobiology of Cercospora beticola Sacc." Her adviser is Prof. Art Schaafsma. Time: 8 a.m. Location: Ridgetown Campus

Tim Carter, Department of Biomedical Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis on "Telomere patterning in matched donor and reprogrammed cell populations." Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: OVC Main Building, Room 1642 (seminar/defence) and Room 3648 (examination/defence)