EEB Defenses

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.


Summer 2007

 
Heather Lerner

Heather Lerner
Advisor: Professor David Mindell
“Molecular phylogenetics of diurnal birds of prey in the avian Accipitridae family”

Xiaoxia Wang

Xiaoxia Wang
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
“Molecular evolution in primates”

Winter 2007

 
Mike Fraker

Mike Fraker
Advisor: Professor Earl Werner
"Predation risk perception and the anti-predator behavioral dynamics of larval anurans"

Krista McGuire's dissertation committee

Krista McGuire
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Ectomycorrhizal associations function to maintain tropical monodominance: Studies from Guyana"

Ron Oldfield

Ron Oldfield

Advisor: Professor Emeritus Gerald Smith
“The effects of behavioral interaction on sex determination in the Midas cichlid”

Xionglei He

Xionglei He

Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang

“Genomic studies on gene duplication”

Fall 2006

 
Mary Anne Evans

Mary Anne Evans

Advisor: Professor George Kling

"Phytoplankton ecology in the arctic lakes"

Spring/Summer 2006

 
Prosanta Chakrabarty

Prosanta Chakrabarty
Advisor: Professor Bill Fink
"Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of Greater Antillean and Middle American Cichlidae"

Heok Hee Ng

Heok Hee Ng

Advisor: Professor Bill Fink

"Only Skin Deep: Phylogeny and evolution of epidermal characters in the Sisoridae"

Fall 2005

 
 

Tanya Dewey
Advisor: Professor Phil Myers
"Evolutionary history in North American Myotis: Cryptic variation and conservative morphologies"

Glenn Fox
Advisor: Professor Emeritus Arnold Kluge
"Total evidence and the evolution of Ophidia (Reptilia: Squamata)"

Spring/Summer 2005

 
 

Laura Eidietis
Advisor:  Professor Paul Webb
“A Biomechanical Description of the Anuran Tadpole Startle Response and Implications of Anatomical Diversity”

Steven Albee-Scott
Advisor: Professor Ronald Nussbaum
"The Phylogeny and Phylogeography of the Two False-Truffles, Leucophleps spinispora and Hymenogaster sublilacinus, in the Great Basin, USA"

Kate Teeter
Advisor: Professor Priscilla Tucker
"Patterns of Gene Flow in the House Mouse Hybrid Zone: Comparisons among Loci and between Transects"

Katia Koelle

Katia Koelle
Advisor: Professor Mercedes Pascual
"Host Immunity and Climate Forcing in Cholera Dynamics and Evolution"

Winter 2005

 
Courteau defense

Jacqueline Courteau
Advisor:  Professor Beverly Rathcke
“Direct, Indirect, and Interacting Effects of Deer and Invasive Autumn Olive on Tree Regeneration"

Dowling defense

Ashley Dowling
Advisor:  Professor Barry OConnor
“Molecular Systematics and the Evolution of Parasitism in Dermanyssoid Mites (Acari: Dermanyssoidea)”

Landry defense

Carol Landry
Advisor:  Professor Beverly Rathcke
“Androdioecy in White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa): Maintenance of a Rare Breeding System through Plant-Pollinator Interactions”

 

Keith Pecor
Advisor:  Professor Brian Hazlett
“Some Aspects of the Chemical Ecology of the Crayfish Orconectes virilis and O. rusticus

Reiskind defense

Michael Reiskind
Advisor:  Professor Mark Wilson
“Oviposition Behavior and Larval Ecology of Culex mosquitoes in Southeast Michigan"

Wund defense

Matthew Wund
Advisor:  Professor Phil Myers
“Learning in the Development of Phenotypically Plastic Bat Echolocation”

Fall 2004

 
McCauley defense

Shannon McCauley
Advisor:  Professor Earl Werner
“Species Distributions in Anisopteran odonates:  Effects of Local and Regional Processes”

   


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