November 2008

Defense of Dissertations

Flavia Carneiro Brito, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. L. Kos) successfully defended her dissertation entitled: “Melanocytes in the developing and adult atrioventricular valves of the murine heart” on November 7th.

Jeremy Moynihan, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. J. Francisco Ortega) successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Dioon Lindl. (Zamiaceae): Perspectives from phylogeny and a population study of D. edule” on November 10th.

Defense of Theses

Karen Laubengayer, M.S. candidate (major advisor: Dr. J. Francisco Ortega) successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Aiphanes minima (Gaertn.) Burret (Arecaceae): A morphological analysis of the Lesser Antillean Species Complex.” on Novemebr 6th.

Defense of Proposals

Beyte Barrios Roque, M.S. student (major advisor: Dr. S. Koptur) presented her thesis proposal entitled: “ Fire, flowering, and fragmentation: The effect of seasonal fires on the reproductive biology of pineland allamanda (Angadenia berteroi), a rare shrub of the pine rocklands.” on November 10th.

Krustin Kuehl, M.S. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Richardson) presented her thesis proposal entitled: “Differences in susceptibility of black band disease (BBD) of two species of the host coral Diploria on Bermuda reefs. “ on November 17th.

Vanessa Haley, M.S. student (major advisor: Dr. C. Layman) presented her thesis proposal entitled: “Understanding bonefish spawning movement around Andros Island, The Bahamas.” on November 21st.
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Presentations at Meetings

Zack Jud, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. C. Layman) presented two invited talks at the International Bonefish and Tarpon Symposium in Dania, FL, entitled "The diet of age-0 tarpon in Indian River Lagoon mosquito control impoundments: Examining dietary composition in relation to size and habitat," as well as "Otolith microchemistry and otolith morphometrics of juvenile tarpon." Zack was also selected to present a simplified version of his first talk at a community outreach meeting in Key Largo, FL, during the final day of the conference.

Claude-Henry Volmar, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. O. Weeks) presented the following poster at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington DC:

C.-H. VOLMAR, G. AIT-GHEZALA, J. FRIELING, D. PARIS, M. J. MULLAN. The granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) regulates amyloid ß (Aß) production.

In the News

Steven Whitfield’s, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. M. Donnelly), work was the theme of a news article entitled “A frog’s foe” by Lucie Guo that appeared in the November issue of The Scientist.

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