Integrative Biology Spotlight

Buma publishes on linking paleo and contemporary ecology studies

Nov. 29, 2018

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrated Biology, and colleagues recently published “The value of linking short and long-term perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience.” in Landscape Ecology (Buma B, Harvey B, Gavin D, Kelly R, Loboda T, McNeil B, Marlon J, Meddens AJH, Morris JL, Raffa K, Shuman B, Smithwick...

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Buma publishes on soil carbon stocks

Nov. 15, 2018

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrated Biology, and colleagues recently published, Large, climate-sensitive soil carbon stocks mapped with pedology-informed machine learning in the North Pacific coastal temperate rainforests in Environmental Research Letters . This international work spanned Alaska and Canada, covering the most biomass dense ecosystem on the continent at...

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Mastin publishes in Botany

Sept. 20, 2018

Integrated Biology alum Jared Mastin (BS 2013, MS 2017) has published " Climatic Niche Modeling Reveals Divergence between Cytotypes in Eutrema edwardsii (Brassicaceae )" in the journal Botany . Mastin and co-authors Leo P Bruederle (Professor Emeritus, Integrative Biology) and Peter Anthamatten (Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences) provide evidence...

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Charlesworth receives NIH funding for new research

Sept. 6, 2018

Amanda Charlesworth, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, received an R15 award from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health for 3 years to study "Maternal control of zygotic genome activation by the RNA-binding proteins, Zar1 and Zar2". After fertilization, the embryo does...

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Phiel Lab (highlighted for teaching) discovers new facet of stem cell biology

Sept. 6, 2018

New research from Integrative Biology Associate Professor Christopher Phiel (and colleges) Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) activity regulates mRNA methylation in mouse embryonic stem cells describes an intersection between these components in the regulation of m6 A by GSK-3. The research found that that protein levels for the RNA demethylase, FTO...

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Pansing featured in Fire Science newsletter

June 21, 2018

Integrated Biology PhD student and GRIN fellowship recipient Libby Pansing’s doctoral research (working with PI and advisor Professor Diana Tomback), Effects of climate change and climate-altered fire regimes on whitebark pine populations , was featured in the Firescience.gov newsletter May 4.

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Hartley and Bruederle host CURE Mobile Institute

June 21, 2018

Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, are designed to integrate a research project into a science laboratory course, thereby providing a large number of students in introductory courses with a research experience. Laurel Hartley, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, and Leo P. Bruederle, Professor of Integrative Biology, co-hosted one of...

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Tomback hosts Rocky Mountain Wolf Project

May 11, 2018

Diana F. Tomback, Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, hosted The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project ’s semi-annual all-coalition meeting on campus May 7th. Tomback is on the Science Advisory Board of this coalition whose mission is outreach and education about the ecological importance of the gray wolf, as well...

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Additional CLAS Graduate program ranks in US News & World Report

April 12, 2018

Last week we announced the rankings of the Department of Integrative Biology (#98) and Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences ranked (#117 and #83) but failed to include our Clinical Health Psychology program, which was ranked 87th nationally. Congratulations!

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Le publishes on multicultural science education

April 12, 2018

Paul T. Le, PhD Candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, recently published Towards a truer multicultural science education: how whiteness impacts science education in Cultural Studies of Science Education with co-author Cheryl Matias from the School of Education and Human Development.

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