Integrative Biology Spotlight

The Presidential Initiative on Urban Research, sponsored by the CU system to bolster each campus’s unique area of expertise, is intended to support CU Denver’s urban and place-based research and creative work. The winners were selected by the seven deans, with assistance in proposal review from eight faculty. The College...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Timberley Roane is the recipient of the 2020 Chase Faculty Community Service award, recognizing her unrelenting support of the Native American/American Indian community in the education of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).The Chase Faculty Community Service Award is presented annually to a full-time CU...

Brian Buma, Integrative Biology Assistant Professor, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of historical management patterns on future carbon sequestration projects in the US and Canada. The support totals $476,254 over three years and will result in the first spatially explicit carbon...

Integrated Biology PhD Candidate Laurel Sindewald, Professor Diana Tomback, and Geospatial Analyst Eric Neumeyer had a paper published in the journal Forests on August 1, titled "Community Structure and Functional Role of Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) in Treeline Communities in Rocky Mountain National Park". Sindewald is beginning her fourth year...

Incoming Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco has been awarded one of the Mycological Society of America’s most prestigious honors, the 2020 C.J. Alexopoulous Prize. The MSA’s Alexopoulous Prize is given annually to the most outstanding mycologist early in their career. The nominees are evaluated primarily on the basis...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Greg Cronin recently produced a rap video PSA to educate Haitians about COVID-19 pandemic . The PSA encourages people to social distance, wash hands with soap and water, notice symptoms, and avoid contamination. This transdisciplinary effort occurred a decade after he produced a PSA that...

Annelise Rue Johns, PhD student with the Buma lab, has been offered a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to start this coming fall. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its...

John G. Swallow, Professor and Chair Department of Integrative Biology, recently had an invited peer-reviewed commentary published in the Journal of Experimental Biology . “The stalk-eyed fly as a model for aggression – is there a conserved role for 5-HT between vertebrates and invertebrates?” represents a synthesis of the PhD...

Kate Hayes, PhD student Integrated Biology, was recently awarded a GRIN (Graduate Research Innovation Grant ) to expand her work focusing on vegetation succession (and in particular how changes in the post-fire communities alter flammability, testing the overall strength of negative feedback associated with the transition to deciduous species in...

On September 18, Professor of Integrative Biology Diana Tomback hosted Professor Jessica Young and her graduate class in the Masters in Environmental Management/Global Sustainability program at Western Colorado University. The topic for presentation and discussion was restoration of wolves to Colorado. The class meeting was part of a multi-day tour...