INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND PARTNERS HOLD THE FIRST SPICE CEREMONIAL HARVESTING

The Institute of Biology, with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute of UPD,
Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Institute of Plant Breeding, UPLB,
embarked in a project funded by the DOST-PCIEERD in 2018 to establish a smart indoor farm for
food production. This project aptly called SPICE – Smart Plant Production In Controlled
Environment, recently had the ceremonial harvesting of crops from one of three developed
facilities with a fully controlled environment set up.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DOCTORAL EXAMINATION OF ERIKA MARIE A. BASCOS, PHD IN BIOLOGY CANDIDATE

The Institute of Biology invites you to the Doctoral Examination of Erika Marie A. Bascos, PhD Candidate in defense of her dissertation “Rafflesia consueloae Taxonomy, Vegetative Development, Scent Profiling, and Molecular Detection of Infection in Vine Hosts” for the degree of Ph.D in Biology. The Doctoral Examination will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 2:00 P.M. Philippine Standard Time.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MASTER’S EXAMINATION OF ERIKA JANE A. ANGELES, MS MICROBIOLOGY CANDIDATE

The Institute of Biology invites you to the Master’s Examination of Erika Jane A. Angeles in defense of her thesis “Diversity of Earthworms Across and Elevational Gradient in Mt. Sawtooth and its Neighboring Highlands in the Zambales Mountain Range, Philippines” for the degree of M.S. in Biology via Zoom on Thursday, 26 August 2021, 9:00 A.M. Philippine Standard Time.