Faculty News

As Brian Buma moves on to his new position with the Environmental Defense Fund, Mike Wunder will be taking on the Interim Chair position for our Graduate Advisor Committee. Thank you Mike for taking on that added responsibility.

Assistant Professor Sara Branco published a Tansley review in the journal New Phytologist entitled ‘Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi’ ( https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/98WM38S5DPYCAKKT56KD?target=10.1111/nph.18308 ). This work was a collaborative effort with Dr. Hui-Ling Liao (University of Florida) , Dr. Joske Ruytinx (Vrije...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Mosier on her tenure confirmation! Dr. Mosier will be on sabbatical for the fall semester.

Dr. Sara Branco recently co-published an article in New Phytologist , " Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi " as well as an article in Current Biology , " Giant Mobil Elements: Agents of Multivariate phenotypic evolution in fung i".

If you go to the Confluence on any given hot day, you may see people wading into the water. The city doesn’t recommend it, but there’s no firm ban that’s enforced. Alan Vajda, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, who has done academic research on the South Platte going back to...

Integrative Biology is excited to announce that Dr. Brian Buma has been awarded the Excellence in Research and Creative Work award and Dr. Michael Greene has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching award. Congratulations to you both!! Please see a message about the awards from Constancio Nakuma, PhD, Provost and...

The Department of Integrative Biology is happy to announce that the Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands (ESIL) certificate program, run by our own Dr. Timberley Roane , faculty member in environmental microbiology, is in its third year. The ESIL certificate provides academic, cultural, social, and professional support for Indigenous and...

Research led by scientists at CU Denver was recently funded by the National Science Foundation. Kathy Kelsey (GES) and Brian Buma (Integrative Biology) are Principal Investigators on a 5-yr, $3.6M grant titled: Collaborative Research: Co-defining climate refugia to inform effective management of mountain headwater systems. This project is focused on...

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 ...

Dr. Buma 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 science view of how the climate works with a highly...