Upcoming Thesis Defenses!

This summer has been quite productive for a few of our graduate students. Here are some upcoming thesis defenses happening this summer, hope to see you all there!

Anthony Geneva (Co-Advisors: Rich Glor and Dan Garrigan)
Friday, August 7, 10:00 AM, Hutch 473
“Integrative analyses of speciation in Anolis lizards”

Yasir Ahmed, (Advisor: Allen Orr)
Tuesday, August 11, 11:00 AM, Hutch 473
“The genetics of species differences in the Drosophila virilis group”

EEB Seminar Today!

BingshuangToday Binshuang will be presenting some work from his dissertation research. His talk is titled “Characterization of the locus controlling wing dimorphism in male pea aphids”. See you all in Hutch316 at 3pm! Happy hour to follow!

EEB seminar Friday, Dec. 5th- Dr. Ellen Martinson

Dr. Ellen Martinson will present a talk titled talk is titled EllenMartinson“Microsporidial endochitinase gene recruited as a venom protein in parasitoid wasps” at 3pm in HH316 on Friday, 12/5. Dr. Martinson earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona working on fig wasps. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Werren lab at the University of Rochester working on the evolution of parasitoid wasp venom.