{"id":3326,"date":"2023-08-21T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:47:01","slug":"joel-sowders-phd-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/2023\/08\/21\/joel-sowders-phd-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Joel Sowders for the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 21, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Joel Sowders successfully completed his Ph.D. journey in the Molecular Plant Sciences program.\u00a0 <!--more--> His thesis, titled \u201cRegulatory mechanisms of purinergic signaling in plant growth and defense,\u201d speaks volumes about his dedication and expertise. Joel&#8217;s defense of his thesis was exceptional and commendable. Special thanks to his committee members, Drs. John Browse, Cynthia Gleason, and Andrei Smertenko.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-396x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-396x278.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-792x556.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-990x695.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel-1188x834.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5928-joel.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3323\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-396x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-396x297.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-792x594.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-990x743.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1446\/2023\/08\/IMG_6630-1188x891.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 21, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Joel Sowders successfully completed his Ph.D. journey in the Molecular Plant Sciences program.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":3320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tanaka-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}