News & Events

Below is a partial list of the dates and speakers for the 2020 Fall Seminar Series. Please check back to this website for an update to the speakers for November.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation
29-Aug	Charissa de Bekker	University Central Florida
4-Sep	Gavin Jones	USDA Forest Service
11-Sep	Simon Lailvaux	University New Orleans
18-Sep	Jason Vogel	University Florida
25-Sep	Ben Wolfe	Tufts University
2-Oct	Bala Chaudhary	DePaul U
9-Oct	Anya Brown	University Florida
16-Oct	Katie Ferris	Tulane University
23-Oct	Jessie Uheling	Oregon State University
30-Oct	Rachel Vannette	UniversityCaliforniaDavis
6-Nov	TBA
13-Nov	TBA
20-Nov	TBA
27-Nov	Thanksgiving
5-Dec	Spring Behrouz	Vincere Biosiences

2020 Spring Seminar Series

May 8, 2020

The 2020 Fall Semester Seminars and Graduate Student Seminars will again be held via Zoom. Please keep checking this page and the News and Events page for further information including seminar speakers, presentations, times and Zoom links.

2020 Spring Seminar Series - Dr. Isabel R. Schlaepfer

May 1, 2020

Who: Dr. Isabel R. Schlaepfer. Title: CPT1A: An old Actor in Metabolism Auditioning for New Cancer Roles. When: Friday, May 8, 2020 at Noon. Where: Seminars are being presented at noon via Zoom: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/434850347 , Meeting ID: 434 850 347. Dr. Isabel R. Schlaepfer University of Colorado School of Medicine...

2020 Spring Seminar Series - Dr. Matthew Kauffman

April 17, 2020

Who: Dr. Matthew Kauffman. Title: " Ecology and Conservation of Ungulate Migrations in the American West" When: Friday, April 24, 2020 at Noon. Where: Seminars are being presented at noon via Zoom: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/434850347 , Meeting ID: 434 850 347. Matthew Kauffman U.S. Geological Survey Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research...

Integrative Biology Professors present lecture in the COVID-19: Colorado & Beyond summer lecture series

July 14, 2020

On July 6 th , Assistant Professor Annika Mosier, Senior Instructor Laurel Beck, and Associate Professors Amanda Charlesworth and Laurel Hartley presented the lecture “The Ecology and Biology of COVID-19” in the COVID-19: Colorado & Beyond free summer lecture series from CLAS: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/cpe/covid-19-colorado-beyond Dr. Annika Mosier Dr. Laurel Beck Dr...

Brian Buma and Craig Welch on National Geographic Podcast, "The Tree at the End of the World"

July 14, 2020

In January of 2019, Dr. Brian Buma, Ecologist and Assistant Professor with CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology, gathered a team he described as, “… a really solid team of Chilean scientists. There was botanists. We had an archaeologist. We had some camp managers extraordinaire, bird ecologists—we basically had a...

Members of Wunder and Hartley Labs Publish in Royal Society Open Science

June 10, 2020

Scott Yanco, Andrew McDevitt, Mike Wunder and Laurel Hartley, in collaboration with Clive Trueman of the University of Southampton, recently published a review in the journal Royal Society Open Science : “A modern method of multiple working hypotheses to improve inference in ecology”. One-hundred and thirty years ago Thomas Chamberlin...

Brian Buma and Lukasz Pawlik publish a review article

May 15, 2020

Brian Buma and Lukasz Pawlik of Poland (a CU Denver visiting scholar with Buma, in summer 2019), published a review article on how the evolution of trees may have impacted the terrain and climate of the Devonian period, a timeframe with mass extinctions and swings of climate. Several other Polish...

Andrea Lorenz accepted to CU Medical School

July 31, 2020

Congratulations to Andrea Lorenz, a former student in Dr. Charlesworth’s General Cell Biology class, for being accepted into Medical School at CU Anschutz.

Maria Nikulkova's MS Thesis Defense

July 19, 2020

MS student Maria Nikulkova’s thesis defense will be taking place via Zoom on Thursday, July 23 rd at 10 am . Maria will be telling us about the great work she has been doing in Dr. Chris Miller’s lab during her thesis talk titled “Novel Genomes Reveal Phylogenetic Breadth and...

Kristy Rushin accepted in to CU Denver Business School MBA Program

July 19, 2020

Kristy Rushin, former student of Dr. Cheri Jones, has been accepted into the CU Denver Business School 11 month MBA program for the 2020 Fall Semester. Congratulations Kristy on this accomplishment

Kristin Olson accepted into the University of Alaska -Fairbanks PhD program

July 14, 2020

Kristin Olson, a CU Denver Biology student who worked with the Buma lab on an NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) project in Alaska, has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and will be starting in Fall 2020. She will work on permafrost...

Isha Kanu accepted into the MS in Creative Technology and Design Program at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute

July 2, 2020

The Department would like to recognize Isha Kanu, a former student in Dr. Amanda Charlesworth's lab, for being accepted into the MS in Creative Technology and Design Program at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute. Congratulations on all your hard work to achieve this accomplishment!

Alexander Visser accepted to Johns Hopkins dual Biotech Masters/MBA program

June 15, 2020

Alexander Visser, a former student of Dr. Cheri Jones and Dr. Lisa Johansen, has been accepted into the Johns Hopkins dual Biotech Masters/MBA programs for the 2020 Fall semester. Alexander was a student in Dr. Jones' Principles of Ecology and Parasitology courses and, Dr. Lisa Johansen's General Biology, Cell Biology...

2020 Graduate Student Seminar Series - Jantina Toxopeus

April 24, 2020

When: Tues. April 28 th , 12:30p Where: ZOOM: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/96053642226 Dr. Jantina Toxopeus Postdoctoral fellow Department of Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver Challenging the hallmarks of insect diapause: A case study in Rhagoletis pomonella Most temperate insects overwinter in diapause, a dormant state characterized by developmental arrest, metabolic rate...

2020 Spring Graduate Seminar - Kyle Turchick

April 10, 2020

Event Information Who: Kyle Turchick. Title: " Investigating the role of relative differences in disturbance frequency on old-growth forest biomass stocks in the temperate rainforest of southeast Alaska". When: Tuesday, April 14th, at 12:20p. Where: Zoom: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/837666569 . Kyle Turchick Masters Candidate, CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology The mountain...

2020 Spring Graduate Student Seminar - Dr. Chris Kotalik

March 9, 2020

Event Information Who: Dr. Chris Kotalik, Title: "Applying mesocosm and field research of acid mine drainage effects on stream communities to inform current USEPA aquatic life criteria", When: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 12:20p. Where: SI 1086 Dr. Chris Kotalik Postdoctoral Researcher Colorado State University. Mineral extraction in the western...

2019 Fall Graduate Seminar - Emily Scott

Nov. 18, 2019

Event Information Who: Emily Scott What: 2019 Fall Graduate Student Seminar When: Monday, Nov. 18th, at Noon Where: SI 1086 Emily Scott Masters Candidate, Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver Effect of Serotonin on Mating Success in Male Teleopsis dalmanni Successful mating is one of the most important behaviors to...

2019 Graduate Student Seminar - Lamya'a Dawud

Nov. 8, 2019

Event Information Who: Lamya'a Dawud What: 2019 Fall Graduate Student Seminar When: Monday, Nov. 18, at Noon Where: SI 1086 Lamya'a Dawud Doctoral Candidate, Integrative and Systems Biology, University of Colorado Denver Social buffering in a novel social fear conditioning procedure in male and female rats Social fear is a...

From Cafe Sci

April 3, 2020

We here at the Café Sci are encouraging people to donate blood. We may all be a little restless, but we’re not powerless to help. The need is enormous right now as people are social-distancing at home. You could really make a difference for those in need, and it's a...

Cafe Scientifique 1, March 11, 2020

March 6, 2020

Denver Café Scientifique 1 at Blake St. Tavern! Place, date, time: Blake Street Tavern on Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 6:30 p Our speaker: Mike Nelson, Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, Channel 7 weatherman The Topic: Colorado's Crazy Climate: the Whats, Whys and Hows! The TV meteorologist is as...

Research Interdisciplinary Exchange

Feb. 21, 2020

Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment Thursday, March 12 * Student Commons Room 1401 * 11:00am to 12:30pm * Lunch Served * Featuring: Dr. Dale Stahl, Dr. Alan Vajda and Dr. Christy Briles ** Dale Stahl, Assistant Professor of History Can infrastructure make a nation? The history of environmental engineering...

Denver Cafe Scientifique 1 - Feb. 18, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

Denver Café Scientifique 1 at Blake St. Tavern! Place, date, time: Blake Street Tavern on Tuesday 18 February 2020 at 6:30 PM. Our speaker: Dr. Jay Schneiders, Consulting Neuropsychologist The Topic: "Minding the Body: Looking at Mind-Body Interactions from Both Directions" In this Cafe Sci, we’ll consider ways the mind...

Denver Cafe Scientifique 1 - Nov. 12, 2019

Nov. 8, 2019

Event Information Who: Drs. Gabriele Pfister and Frank Flocke, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder What: Denver Café Scientifique 1 at Blake St. Tavern! When: Monday, Nov. 12, 2019 at 6:30pm Where: Blake Street Tavern The Topic: "Clean mountain air- or not? Air quality in the Colorado Front Range" In...

We wish there was more room to share all the Seminars, News and Events in the Department but you can find more by clicking the links below for some archived articles from 2019 and 2020!

2019 ARCHIVE

EVENTS

CU Denver Biology Club presents “Come Run With The Pack” with Mike Phillips 10/24/2019

Integrative Biology hosts Mr. Mike Phillips 10/25/2019

STUDENT NEWS

2019 Fall Semester IB Graduate Student Travel Awards 10/15/2019

Lamya’a Dawud presents at the Society for Neuroscience 2019 National Conference 11/20/2019

Kyle Turchick hosts webinar on COASTAL MARGIN WEBINAR series 11/22/2019

Libby Pansing goes from competitive snowboarder to biology PhD 12/11/2019

CU Denver Integrative Biology faculty, alumni & Students get involved with Urban Wildlife Information Network & CU Boulder Center for Sustainable Landscapes & Communities 12/1/2019

2019 Fall Graduating Masters & PhD Students 12/20/2019

FACULTY NEWS