Mar 30, 2020
The following students are presenting dissertation defenses, or proposal defenses, in Spring Quarter 2020. Please look for emails to the clusterall listserv for specific information on joining students' presentations via Zoom.
| Student | Date | Time | Defense Type | Title |
| Benjamin D. Blanchard | April 6 | 10:30am | dissertation | The evolution and ecology of defensive traits in ants |
| Abhimanyu Lele | April 8 | 10:30am | proposal | Gene flow and local adaptation in tropical forest birds |
| Andrew George | April 29 | 9:30am | dissertation | Functional morphology and evolution of the balistiform swimming mode |
| Marcos Costa Vieira | April 30 | 2:30pm | dissertation | Evolution of adaptability and the immune response to influenza and HIV |
| William Koval | May 1 | 1:30pm | proposal | The Douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata, as a model for dynamic variation in animal pathogens |
| Jing-Yi Lu | May 8 | 2:00pm | proposal | Pollinator shifts, floral evolution, and speciation in Aeschynanthus (Gesneriaceae) |
| Roberto Marquez | May 14 | 2:00pm | dissertation | The evolutionary, biogeographic, and genetic origin of color pattern diversity in Phyllobates poison-dart frogs |
| Mark Bitter | May 15 | 1:00pm | dissertation | Exploring the dynamics of rapid adaptation to ocean acidification in the Mediterranean mussel |
| Alexa Lamprecht | May 19 | 9:30am | proposal | Body mass, habitat and limb lengthening: Assessing the evolution of locomotor morphology in ruminant artiodactyls |
| Samantha Gartner | May 22 | 9:00am | proposal | Evolution of biomechanical novelties and the mechanical properties of cranial ligaments in wrasses (Family: Labridae) |
| Weldeyared Reda | May 26 | 9:30am | proposal | Facial development in Australopithecus afarensis: interpreting variation and phylogeny in early hominins |
| Tristan Reinecke | May 28 | 10:00am | proposal | Evaluating the variation in trabecular architecture of long limb bones in extant and extinct species |
| Santiago Herrera | June 4 | 1:30pm | proposal | Accessibility of novel functions in the genotype-phenotype map of an ancient regulatory module |