Integrative Biology Spotlight

Graduate fieldwork requires leading and managing a team, often in unique circumstances (including long hours, remote regions, etc.), and therefore can be challenging even for those with previous leadership or field experience. Recent research from Graduate Integrative Biology Students Katherine Hayes, Trevor Carter, Erin Twaddell (under the supervision of Associate...

Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco (along with a team of scientists at Duke University and the University of Wisconsin) received funding from the Joint Genome Institute/Department of Energy to develop the project ‘ Functional Roles of Secondary Metabolites in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi ’. The study will be led by...

Sara Branco, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, published a Tansley review in the leading journal in the plant sciences (with impact factor of 10.32) New Phytologist , Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi . This work documents how...

Integrative Biology students Trevor Carter and Katherine Hayes, under the supervision of Professor Brian Buma, recently published in Landscape Ecology , “ Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests .” Large scale native spruce beetle...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Timberley Roane and her colleagues recently published, “ Application of the Indigenous evaluation framework to a university certificate program for building cultural awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .” This paper presents a case example of the Indigenous Evaluation Framework as applied to a...

Alum and former Outstanding CLAS Graduate Student Elizabeth Pansing and Integrative Biology Professor Diana Tomback are part of a team that recently published the paper, " Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests ” in the high impact journal, BioScience ...

Brian Buma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Integrative Biology, has a new book out on the basics of environmental science, ecology, and climate change: The Atlas of a Changing Climate . Over half imagery from National Geographic, satellites, historical documents, and data artists, the book takes a basic...

Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology Greg Ragland recently received an NSF CAREER award. The grant, titled, “Beyond differential expression: quantifying transcriptional dynamics and testing for adaptive value of transcriptomic responses at low temperature,” will be a comparative physiology study of transcription temperature in flies from different regions. At present, the...

Current Anatomy TA and 2019 Biology Alum, Deseray Sileo was recently awarded a full-ride scholarship for medical school at the University of California Los Angles. She was offered and has accepted the David Geffen Medical Student Scholarship , and will matriculate to UCLA this fall. This is the highest honor...

Integrative Biology Associate Professor Brian Buma recently coauthored a Tamm Review on the effects of salvage logging in forests around the world . Tamm reviews are an invited, high-profile series of reviews on rapidly changing topics of interest worldwide. Salvage logging is when disturbed forests, like post-fire or post-beetle trees,...