Upcoming Theses

When a postgraduate student or doctoral candidate completes their studies, he or she is required to produce an academic thesis to be defended in public. This defence, called a dissertation, is the final phase in obtaining the degree after approval by the judging body. Upcoming defences of disputations and the most recent theses at Umeå University can be found in the links to the right.

Dissertations to be defended

May 2013

28 May at 13:00

Robert Helgesson - Computing Science

Dissertation Generalized general logics.

29 May at 09:00

Ayad Amer - Molecular Biology

Dissertation Controlling Substrate Export by the Ysc-Yop type III Secretion System of Yersinia.

29 May at 13:00–15:30

Martin Andersson - Occupational Medicine

Dissertation Asthma in school age. Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.

30 May at 09:00–11:30

Benny Holmberg - Medicine

Dissertation Analysis of risk factors in patients with severe chronic kidney disease. Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.

30 May at 10:00

John Gräsvik - Chemistry

Dissertation Ionic liquids in biorefining - Synthesis and applications.

30 May at 13:00–15:30

Birger Axelsson - Anestesiology

Dissertation Cardiac effects of non-adrenergic inotropic drugs: clinical and experimental studies. Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences.

30 May at 13:00–15:00

Ulla-Maija Pesola - informatics

Dissertation Ulla-Maija Pesola, department of informatics

31 May at 09:00–11:30

Anders Ringnér – Nursing

Dissertation Information to parents of children with cancer. Department of Nursing.

31 May at 09:00–11:30

Kristina Edvardsson – folkhälsovetenskap

Dissertation Health promotion in pregnancy and early parenthood - The challenge of innovation, implementation and change within the Salut Programme.

31 May at 10:00

Anna Dietrich - Ecology

Dissertation Use of phytometers for evaluating ecological restoration.

31 May at 13:00

Florian Nitze - Physics

Dissertation Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium Based Carbon Nanostructures Composites and their Clean Energy Application.

31 May at 13:00–15:30

Jonas Andersson - Radiation Physics

Dissertation Ion recombination in liquid ionization chambers. Department of Radiation Sciences.


June 2013

4 June at 10:00

Junyang Wang - experimentell fysik

Dissertation Dicke narrowing and speed-dependent effects in dispersion signals - Influence on assessment of concentration and spectral parameters by noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry.

4 June at 13:00

Patrik Engström - Molecular Biology

Dissertation Chemical genetics disclose the importance of heme and clucose metabolism in Chlamydia trachomatis pathogeneis.

5 June at 09:00

Lina Lundberg - Molecular Biology

Dissertation Aneuploidy compensatory mechanisms and genome-wide regulation of gene expression in Drosophilia melanogaster.

5 June at 09:00–11:30

Ludvig Backman - anatomi

Dissertation Neuropeptide and catecholamine effects on tenocytes in tendinosis development - studies on two model systems with focus on proliferation and apoptosis.

5 June at 09:00–11:30

Susanna Jakobson Mo - diagnostisk radiologi

Dissertation Nuclear medicine methods in idiopathic Parkinsonism: Pre- and post synaptic dopamine SPECT.

5 June at 09:00

Lan Do Thanh - Chemistry

Dissertation New tools for sample preparation and instrumental analysis of Dioxins in enviromental samples.

5 June at 13:00

Xiaowei Song - Chemistry

Dissertation Iron oxyhydroxide bulk and surface reactivity - A molecular perspective.

7 June at 09:00–11:30

Terese Karlsson - onkologi

Dissertation The expression and molecular functions of LRIG proteins in cancer and psoriasis.

7 June at 10:00

Caroline Zetterström - Chemistry

Dissertation Small Molecules as Tools in Biological Chemistry - Effects of Synthetic and Natural Products on the Type III Secretion System

13 June at 09:00–11:30

Sven Blomqvist - Physiotherapy

Dissertation Postural balance and physical activity among young persons with intellectual disability. Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation. Note - date changed!

13 June at 09:00–11:30

Veronika Sjöberg - immunologi

Dissertation Immune responses in small intestinal mucosa of pediatric celiac diseases patients - impact of the two environmental factors, resident microbiota and oats.

14 June at 09:00–11:30

Susann Backteman-Erlanson – Nursing

Dissertation Burnout, work, stress of conscience and coping among female and male patrolling officers. Susann Backteman-Erlanson, Department of Nursing.

14 June at 10:00–12:30

Karolina Kauppi - Physiology

Dissertation Imaging genetics of hippocampus-based memory functions. Department of Integrative Medical Biology.


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