Vicky and her committee, from left to right: Dean of Graduate Studies Margaret Kearney, Allen Orr, Vicky Cattani, Daven Presgraves, Trisha Wittkopp (external committee member).

Presgrave’s Lab student Vicky Cattani just successfully defended her dissertation on “Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in Drosophila.”  Congratulations to Dr. Cattani! Vicky will soon be heading off to start a post-doc in Matt Rockman’s lab at NYU.

Toasting Vicky's successful thesis defense.