EEB PhD Defense: Swapna Subramanian
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 2:00–3:00 PM
- LocationHomer Babbidge Library
- DescriptionSwapna's PhD advisor Dan Bolnick says "Her thesis is a wonderful mixture of field natural history of yeasts on our local apple orchards, experimental evolution, and comparative population genomics."
- Websitehttps://events.uconn.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/event/1534821-eeb-phd-defense-swapna-subramanian
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