Recent Defenses

Recent defenses
Below is a list of students and their defense titles. For information about our alumni from previous years, please go to the graduate alumni directory under our Alumni & Friends section.

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Summer 2009

 
Sarah Cobey defense

Sarah Cobey
Advisor: Professor Mercedes Pascual
"Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of influenza viruses"

Akane Uesugi

Akane Uesugi
Advisor: Professor Beverly Rathcke
"Tri-trophic investigation of the evolution of host plant use in a insect herbivore; a case study with a leafminer (Amauromyza flavifrons)"

   

Spring 2009

 
Tim Connallon defense

Tim Connallon
Advisor: Professor L. Lacey Knowles
"Evolutionary consequences of sex linkage and sex-specific selection"

Diego Ruiz Moreno defense

Diego Ruiz-Moreno
Advisor: Professor Mercedes Pascual
"The role of primary and secondary transmission on the dynamics of cholera in endemic areas"

Shalene Jha and dissertation committee

Shalene Jha
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Movement in the matrix: pollination and dispersal processes in a tropical coffee and forest landscape mosaic"

   

Winter 2009

 
Chatfield defense

Matt Chatfield
Advisor: Professor Priscilla Tucker
"Evolutionary dynamics among salamanders in the genus Plethodon"

Marquez defense

Eladio Marquez
Advisor: Professor Phil Myers
"Peeking into the black box: inferring developmental causes of modularity and their evolutionary role"

Zach Miller

Zach Miller
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Plant pathogens and the maintenance of plant species diversity: sledgehammers and small axes"

Weinstein poster

Bret Weinstein
Advisor: Professor Robyn Burnham and Professor Emeritus Richard Alexander
"Evolutionary trade-offs: in time, across space, and between the two"

   

Fall 2008

 
Oneal defense

Elen Oneal
Advisor: Professor L. Lacey Knowles
"Biogeographic and evolutionary mechanisms promoting divergence in Caribbean crickets (genus Amphiacusta)"

Wang defense

Bin Wang
Advisor: Professor Yin-Long Qiu
"Origin and Evolution of Mycorrhizal Symbioses in Land Plants"

Jahi Chappell, Ivette Perfecto, and John Vandermeer

M. Jahi Chappell
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
“From food security to farm to Formicidae: Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Secretaria Municipal de Abastecimento and biodiversity in the fragmented Atlantic rainforest"

   

Summer 2008

 
Nicole Maturen photos

Nicole Maturen
Advisors: Professor George Estabrook and Professor Emeritus Michael Frohlich
"Genetic Analysis of the Evolution of Petaloid Bracts in Dogwoods"

   

Spring 2008

 
Andrea Walther and dissertation committee

Andrea Walther
Advisor: Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil
"A systematic study of North American freshwater limpets (Gastropoda: Hygrophila: Ancylidae)"

Ben-Yang Liao

Ben-Yang Liao
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
"Expression evolution of mammalian genes"

   

Winter 2008

 
Jim Crants defense

Jim Crants
Advisor: Professor Beverly Rathcke
"Pollination and pollen limitation in mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.), a deceit-pollinated spring ephemeral"

Wendy Grus

Wendy Grus
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
"Evolution of the vomeronasal system viewed through specific genes."

Javier Ruiz's Dissertation Committee

Javier Ruiz
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Plant dispersal, seedling recruitment and insect herbivory: evidence from the Dipteryx oleifera system"

Luis Fernando Chaves

Luis Fernando Chaves
Advisors: Professors Mercedes Pascual and Mark Wilson
"Ecological dynamics of vector-borne diseases in changing environments"

   

Fall 2007

 
Ondrej Podlaha

Ondrej Podlaha
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
“Evolution of genes involved in mammalian reproduction and sex determination”

Corinne Richards

Corinne L. Richards
Advisors: Professors L. Lacey Knowles and Ronald A. Nussbaum
“Ecological and evolutionary implications for the conservation of Panamanian golden frogs”

 

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