Eric Bruger, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Christopher M. Waters
Dissertation Title: Quorum sensing and the stabilization of cooperative behavior in Vibrio bacteria
Andrea Dechner, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Dissertation title: Ecology of a carnivore community in an agricultural landscape in the Northeast of Brazil
Rachael Eaton, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Dissertation title: Avian use of cultivated orchards: influences of diet, scale, and sociality on foraging
Carol Fergus, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Patricia Soranno
E-mail: fergusca@msu.edu
Ellen Holste, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
Dissertation Title: The role of mycorrhizal fungi and soil nutrients in tropical reforestation
Lindsay Hunt, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Thesis Title: Effects of Pasture Dairy Farming on Grassland Bird Species in Southwest Michigan
Cara Krieg, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: The form and function of competitive traits in female house wrens (troglodytes aedon)
Michael Kuczynski, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: Individual and ecological sources of variation in sexual signals and mate choice
Rohan Maddamsetti, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation Title: Population genomics of Escherichia coli in nature and the laboratory
Lucas Michelotti, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Jessica R. Miesel
Dissertation Title: Source material and concentration of wildlife-produced pyrogenic carbon influence post-fire soil nutrient dynamics
Beth Miller, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
Dissertation Title: Community composition and coexistance: The effects of temporal variation and environmental forcing on community trait distributions and diversity
Jakob Nalley, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Dissertation Title: Optimizing the productivity and sustainability of algal biofuel systems: investigating the benefits of algal diversity and utilizing brewery wastewater for cultivation.
Sifa Ephraim Ngasala, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Michael D. Gottfried
Dissertation title: The biogeography of Lungfishes with a description of new fossil taxa from East Africa
Jorge Alejandro Rojas Flechas, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Pathology
Advisor: Martin Chilvers
Dissertation title: "Diversity in oomycetes associated with soybean seedling diseases"
Marissa Schuh, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Thesis Title: Influence of switchgrass ecotype, cultivar, & planted stand diversity on herbivores, natural enemy communities, and biological control in bioenergy cropping systems
Tomomi Suwa, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation Title: The role of resource mutualism in plant response and adaptation to abiotic environments
Nicholas Testa, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
Dissertation title: The developmental and molecular-genetic mechanisms of sexual size and shape dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster
Jie Wang, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Pathology
Advisor: Martin Chilvers
Dissertation title: Molecular diagnostics, epidemiology, and population genetics of the soybean sudden death syndrome pathogen, fusarium virguliforme