{"id":2186,"date":"2024-09-27T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/cell-molecular\/?page_id=2186"},"modified":"2024-09-27T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:26:42","slug":"dissertation-defenses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/cell-molecular\/dissertation-defenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-top newsEvents is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<div data-wp-context=\"{}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/query\" data-wp-key=\"17\" data-wp-router-region=\"query-17\" class=\"wp-block-query alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template 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