INREF and KNAW-SPIN progress
All students are writing their PhD books! Hence, we are in harvest time. We expect dozens of new exciting papers that will move the front forward and together form a solid foundation for a new phase in Panama disease research.
Jaye de la Cruz, first INREF PhD student graduated
On October 23rd, 2017, Jaye de la Cruz successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Panama disease in banana and neoliberal governance: towards a political ecology of risk”. Jaye was supervised by Dr Kees Jansen and her promotor was Prof. Philip McNaughton. Her thesis casts a different light on a major plant disease in a major crop and underscores the complexity of international action to reduce its risk, particularly by illuminating the power relationships in the sector.
Forthcoming PhD graduations
We fixed the dates for three students, most other will fix their dates soon likely for graduation in November and December 2018.
On June 6th, Ms. Caucasella Diaz Trujillo, Mexico, will defend her PhD thesis titled “Functional genetics and genomics of the banana black Sigatoka pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis”. The ceremony is at the Wageningen University and Research auditorium, Building 362, General Foulkesweg 1, 6703 BG Wageningen, and start at 13:30.
On October 16th, Ms. Nadia Ivone Ordóñez Román, INREF PhD student, will defend her thesis titled “A global genetic diversity analysis of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, the Panama disease pathogen of banana”. The ceremony is at the Wageningen University and Research auditorium, Building 362, General Foulkesweg 1, 6703 BG Wageningen, and start at 16:00.
On October 29th, Ms. Nani Maryani Martawi, KNAW-SPIN student, will defend her thesis titled “Fusarium wilt of banana in Indonesia: genetic diversity and phylogeny of causal fungi”. The ceremony is at the Wageningen University and Research auditorium, Building 362, General Foulkesweg 1, 6703 BG Wageningen, and start at 11:00.
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