#  Congratulations November Graduates! 

 





November 16, 2020

 

 

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 Congratulations to our PhD candidates who successfully defended and earned their doctorate November 2020!!

- **Meghan Blumstein** (N. Michele Holbrook Lab), "*The plastic and adaptive potential of sugar storage in temperate trees under climate change"*
- **Liming Cai** (Charles Davis Lab), "*Phylogeny and genome evolution of the flowering plant clade Malpighiales"*
- **Blake Dickson** (Stephanie Pierce Lab), "*Evolution of the tetrapod forelimb and functional morphology of the humerus across water-land transitions"*
- **Zachary Morris** (Stephanie Pierce Lab), "*Cause and consequences of lung loss in salamanders"*
- **Pavitra Muralidhar** (David Haig and Jonathan Losos Lab), "*On the evolution of sex and its consequences"*
- **Kari Taylor-Burt** (Andrew Biewener Lab), "*How to waddle with a paddle: A study of duck hindlimb anatomy, kinematics, and muscle function across behaviors and species"*



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Graduate News ](/news-type/student-news)
- [ 2020 ](/news-year/2020)