Congratulations to Mengjie Fan who has successfully completed his studies, defended his thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Mengjie’s project was: Optimising photosynthetic performance, marketable yields and berry quality using blue light.
Congratulations to Hayden Tempest who has successfully completed his studies, defended his thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Hayden’s project was: Radio-tagging earwigs to understand the breakdown in successful woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), control.
Congratulations to Catherine Chapman who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Catherine’s project was: Carbon sequestration potential of apple rootstocks: the role of root recalcitrance, rhizodeposition, and the rhizosphere microbiome.
Congratulations to Ece Moustafa who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Ece’s project was: Improving cane crop resilience by overcoming the legacy effects on photosynthesis during the recovery from short-term combined stresses.
Congratulations to Cindayniah Godfrey who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Cindayniah’s project was: Resistance and susceptibility in interactions between apple and woolly aphids.
Congratulations to Winnie Swann who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Winnie’s project was: Optimising the light recipe for maximum photosynthesis, yield and quality in strawberry.
Congratulations to Lauren Farwell who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Lauren’s project was: The epidemiology and management of Cladosporium on raspberry.
Congratulations to Samantha Lynn who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Samantha’s project was: Identifying novel powdery mildew susceptibility and resistance genes in strawberry. Samantha has secured employment with a pharmaceutical company in North Kent.
Congratulations to Eithne Browne who has successfully completed her studies, defended her thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of Eithne’s project was: Is there more to raspberry root rot that Phytophthora rubi? Eithne has secured employment as a research scientist working for Teagasc investigating the potato, faba bean and barley microbiome.
Congratulations to George Onoufriou who has successfully completed his studies, defended his thesis and been awarded a PhD. The title of George’s project was: The augmented agronomist: Synthesis of AI, ML and robotics to assist decision support
