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Schedule & Location Graduate Student  Examining Commitee

Hybrid Defense on May 18 2026 at 9:00 pm  in SCA 333 and via Microsoft Teams

 


Meeting ID: 299 749 966 012 074
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Cassandra Campbell

Ph.D. Defense

Title of dissertation is; 

Patterns and mechanisms of mangrove expansion in subtropical wetlands under a changing climate 

David Lewis, Ph.D., Susan Bell Ph.D., Christina Richards, Ph.D.,  Camilo Zalamea, Ph.D., Shawn Landry, Ph.D. 

 

Hybrid Defense on May 20, 2026 at 9:30 am in SCA 333 and via Microsoft Teams  

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Meeting ID: 222 819 041 211 677 

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Fargam Neinavaie

Ph.D. Defense

Title of the dissertation is; 

Standardizing and Quantifying the Mechanisms of Mutagenesis in Human Cancer: From Growth Kinetics to Quantum Entanglement 

 

Andrew Kramer, Ph.D., Christina Richards, Ph.D., Diego Santiago Alarcon, Ph.D., Dr. Joel Brown, and Dr. Robert Gatenby.

Hybrid Defense on June 8 2026 at 9:00 am in SCA 333 and via Microsoft Teams  

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Meeting ID: 281 890 543 665 241

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Nathan Dowling 

MS Defense

"House Sparrows Reveal Hidden Reservoirs of Antimicrobial Resistance"

Major Professor:    Diego Santiago Alarcon, Ph.D.

Committee:  Andrew Kramer, Ph.D.  and Lynn Martin, Ph.D.