Gladness Elibariki Temu, Assistant Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) recently defended her PhD thesis successfully and was conferred her degree on November 8, 2014. Temu’s PhD thesis is titled “Regeneration, Diversity and RNA Interference Strategies to Enhance Cassava Mosaic Viruses Resistance in Tanzanian Cassava Landraces” and was carried out, also at UDSM.