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Cassondra Vernier

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Yehuda Ben-Shahar

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of nestmate recognition cue production in the European honey bee, Apis mellifera

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Vitas Wagner

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: A Gnotobiotic Mouse Model for Studying the Effect of Human Gut Community Ecology on a Pathobiont, Bacteroides fragilis

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Katherine Waselkov

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: Population genetics and phylogenetic context of weed evolution in the genus Amaranthus

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Marshall Wedger

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: Weedy rice as a model system for the study of microevolutionary interactions in agricultural contexts

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David Weisrock

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Molecular phylogenetic studies of speciation and phylogeny in salamanders; macroevolutionary and microevolutionary perspectives

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Kathryn Williams

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Justin C. Fay

Thesis Title: Evolution of Ecological Dominance of Yeast Species in High-Sugar Environments

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Lauren Woods

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Tiffany M. Knight

Thesis Title: The influence of metacommunity size on species diversity across spatial scales

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Sara Wright

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: Cyanogenesis and the genetics of local adaptation in white clover (Trifolium repens L.)

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Guoqin Yu

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Evolution of Endosprem Starch Synthesis Pathway Genes in the Context of Rice (Oryza Sativa) Domestication