PhD defence by Ana Cuesta-Maté
"Eating symbioses: how humans have assimilated into million-year-old symbioses"
Please join us for Ana Cuesta-Maté's PhD defence of her thesis with the interesting title "Eating symbioses: how humans have assimilated into million-year-old symbioses".
Ana will present her work on the acetic acid bacteria that are in charge of the fermentation of kombuchas, vinegars or sourdoughs, and found in social insects and plants. Ana's interdisciplinary work contributes to understanding the roles of these bacteria in their environments, and how these niches forged them to be proficient at making our ferments.
Ana was co-supervised by Veronica Sinotte, Rob. R. Dunn and Jonathan Shik.
The assessment committee is chaired by Hannes Schroeder from EcoEvo, with Margaritha López-Uribe from Penn State and Joshua Evans from DTU as external assesors.