{"id":740,"date":"2025-11-09T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/?p=740"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:13:32","slug":"csenge-petak-successfully-defends-her-dissertation-congratuations-dr-petak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/2025\/11\/09\/csenge-petak-successfully-defends-her-dissertation-congratuations-dr-petak\/","title":{"rendered":"Csenge Petak successfully defends her dissertation! Congratuations, Dr. Petak!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/Drs.Petak_.Pespeni-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Petak is now a postdoc at Max Planck Institute in T\u00fcbingen, Germany working with <a href=\"https:\/\/pallareslab.org\/\">Luisa Pallares studying the evolutionary genomics of complex traits<\/a>! One of Csenge&#8217;s dissertation chapters was just published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2519469122\"><em>PNAS<\/em><\/a>! Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/uvmnews\/news\/one-and-done-not-enough-pnas-study-challenges-traditional-evolutionary-research\">the press release<\/a>! Another is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/726013\">The American Naturalist<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Petak is now a postdoc at Max Planck Institute in T\u00fcbingen, Germany working with Luisa Pallares studying the evolutionary genomics of complex traits! One of Csenge&#8217;s dissertation chapters was just published in PNAS! Check out the press release! Another is published in The American Naturalist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}