Mr. Benjamin Cinget, research student under the supervision of Professors Jean Bousquet and Jean Beaulieu of the Canada Research Chair in Forest and Environmental Genomics, successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Study pan phylogéograhique balsam fir (Abies balsamea ) and its relationship with subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) in western Canada. "In the photo we see him surrounded by his thesis review committee, from left to right, Professor André Desrochers, president of the defense, Jean Beaulieu, Benjamin Cinget, Professor Jean Bousquet Damase Khasa and CEF-Laval video and rear, Professor Selvadurai Dayanandan of Dep. Univ biology. Concordia and Professor Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Correa of the Institute of Ecology of the Autonomous University of Mexico. Benjamin Congratulations!