Integrative Biology Spotlight

Why Life-Changing Scholarship Opportunities at CU Denver Were Only the Beginning for Scott Cao ’17

Sara Branco (Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) to support SPORES, a mentorship program for underrepresented undergraduate students. This project is a collaboration with Clark University, Purdue University, and...

Sara Branco, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, is the senior author of a paper in New Phytologist , a leading journal in plant science. The publication is an important contribution that points out the need for genus-level model systems for studying the ecology and evolution of plant mutualistic fungi and...

Sara Branco, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, was selected as a Fellow for the Mycological Society of America (MSA). This important distinction recognizes Dr. Branco’s outstanding contributions to the field of fungal evolution and genetics, as well as her extensive work in Diversity and Inclusion. Dr. Branco...

Research by Michael Moore (Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology), along with two CU Denver students, is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . PNAS selected it as an article they will be promoting to the press. Here is Dr. Moore's summary of the article: "Species require special...

Diana F. Tomback, Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, recently accepted a nomination to be one of a dozen people on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Whitebark Pine Recovery Team . Tomback is now on four working groups associated with this effort (Restoration, Nutcracker, Monitoring, Indigenous) and co-chair...

Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco was recently awarded a $1,169,284 Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Director’s Science Program grant entitled ‘ Myco-Ed: Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery’ . This multi-institution effort lead by the JGI and involving the Arizona Genomics Institute, CU Denver, CU Boulder,...

On March 22nd, American Forests hosted the screening of the video, Hope and Restoration , at the National Press Club in Washington DC, followed by a panel discussion. The purpose was to showcase the video on restoring whitebark pine, now a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act, which was...

In July, Integrative Biology Professor Diana F. Tomback, representing the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation (WPEF) and the University of Colorado Denver, held a picnic event to celebrate and thank Joe Ricketts for his on-going support for the Yellowstone Clark's Nutcracker Research Project. This project is a collaboration among Yellowstone National...

New research from a team including Integrative Biology Associate Research Professor Brian Buma reports on finding the world's southernmost archaeological site, a hunting camp from between 260–460 years BP, that represents the furthest south extension of humanity prior to the industrial age. Published in the Cambridge journal Antiquity , “...