Today, Eduardo Ramirez Rodriguez successfully defended his PhD thesis “Decoding the signals that shape plant cell walls” Eduardo’s thesis investigated changes to the phosphoproteome that are induced by cell wall signaling and characterized an intracellular kinase that acts in a phosphorelay to receive and then transmit cell wall signals. Eduardo gave a fantastic presentation to a standing-room-only crowd of supporters from the department. Special thanks to his external examiner, Prof. R. Glen Uhrig, from the University of Alberta. Congratulations, Dr. Ramirez Rodriguez!