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| October 12, 2007. Stacey Simon successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Using Synthetic Gene Clusters to Model R Gene Evolution by Meiotic Recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana." Co-Advisors: John McDowell and John Jelesko. |  |
| July 30, 2007. Amanda Stiles successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Identification and Characterization of Late Pathway Enzymes in Phytic Acid Biosynthesis in Glycine max." Advisor: Elizabeth Grabau. |  |
| April 10, 2007. Cecilia Vasquez-Robinet successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Relationships Between Expression of Heat Shock Protein Genes and Photosynthetic Behavior During Drought Stress in Plants." Advisor: Ruth Grene. |  |
| April 9, 2007. Shrinivasrao Mane successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Use of Bioinformatics to Investigate Abiotic Stress in Arabidopsis and to Design Primers for Pathogen Detection." Advisor: Ruth Grene. |  |
| March 12, 2007. Myoung-Hui Yun successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Effect of Ozone on Net CO2 Assimilation and PSII Function in Plants with Contrasting Pollutant Sensitivities." Advisor: Boris Chevone. |  |
February 27, 2007. JiaHuai Hu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Phytophthora nicotianae: Fungicide Sensitivity, Fitness, and Molecular Markers." Advisor: Chuanxue Hong and Erik Stromberg. (First video conference defense in department history since a committee member was in another University)
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February 1, 2007. Wenyan Zhang successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in Regulation of Ascorbate Metabolic Pathway(s) in Arabidopsis thaliana." Advisor: Boris Chevone.
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January 26, 2007. Mike Reidy successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Carole Cramer.
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| 2006 | |
| December 14, 2006. Daniel Ricker successfully defended his M.S. Thesis, "Elucidating Influence of Temperature and Environmental Stress on Turfgrass Response to Mesotrione and Evaluation of Potential Synergistic Admixtures to Improve Mesotrione Efficacy." Advisor: Shawn Askew. |  |
December 6, 2006. Jianyun Liu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Plant-derived IL-12 and Ricin B- IL-12 fusions." Advisor: Carole Cramer.
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| September 25, 2006. Eric P. Hogan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Population biology of Cryphonectria parasitica infected with Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 on American chestnut trees." Advisor: Gary J. Griffin |  |
| May 11, 2006. David S. McCall successfully defended his M.S. Thesis: "Influence of isolate, host cultivar, and heat stress on virulence of Rhizoctonia zeae on tall fescue". Advisor: Anton Baudoin (succeeding Houston B. Couch). |  |
April 11, 2006. Jeannine Flagg successfully defended her M.S. Thesis: "Cross-species translocation of mRNA from host plants into the parasitic plant Cuscuta pentagona". Advisor: James Westwood. |
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