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2020 Fall Seminar Series Calendar.

9/7 - LABOR DAY CAMPUS CLOSED

9/11 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Simon Lailvaux

9/18 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Jason Vogel

9/25 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Ben Wolfe

10/2 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Bala Chaudhary

10/9 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Anya Brown

10/16 - 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Katie Ferris

10/23 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Jessie Uheling

10/30 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Rachel Vannette

11/6 - 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Lucas Silva

11/13 - 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Stephen Mondo

11/20 - 2020 Fall Seminar Series - Matt Johnson

11/23-29 FALL BREAK

11/26 – THANKSGIVING CAMPUS CLOSED

12/4 – 2020 Fall Seminar Series – Spring Behrouz

12/12 - END OF FALL SEMESTER

12/25 - 1/1 WINTER BREAK CAMPUS CLOSED

Information about the individual speakers can be found below.

2020 Fall Seminar Series - Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary

Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary Asst. Professor, Environmental Science and Studies DePaul University, College of Science and Health WHEN: Oct. 2nd, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Trait-based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Dispersal is a fundamental process...

2020 Fall Seminar Series - Dr. Benjamin Wolfe

Dr. Benjamin Wolfe Associate Professor Department of Biology, Tufts University WHEN: Sept. 25 th , 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Delicious rot: ecology and evolution of fermented food microbiomes Advances in DNA sequencing technologies have allowed us...

2020 Fall Seminar Series - Dr. Jason G. Vogel

Sept. 11, 2020

Dr. Jason G. Vogel Assistant Professor, ProForest – Proactive Forest Health and Resilience Team Member University of Florida School of Forest Resources & Conservation WHEN: Sept. 18 th , 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Carbon Cycling...

Department of Energy Awards $1M to CU Denver-Led Team for Computational Biology

Sept. 24, 2020

CU Connections, Sept. 24, 2020 issue The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million in funding for six new research projects in computational biology, $1,049,639 of which goes to Chris Miller , associate professor in CU Denver’s Department of Integrative Biology , and his collaborators—Farnoush Banaei-Kashani from CU Denver,...

World's southernmost tree and forests newly documented and published by Brian Buma

Sept. 11, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Buma, Asst. Professor at UC Denver Integrative Biology on the peer reviewed paper officially announcing “The world's southernmost tree and the forests at the extreme tip of South America” . You can read the full article here .

Brian Buma awarded grant from the National Science Foundation

Sept. 4, 2020

Brian Buma 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 maps of the entire...

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...

Emily Scott, MS Thesis Defense

Sept. 3, 2020

MS student Emily Scott’s thesis defense will be taking place via Zoom Thursday, September 3 rd at 1 pm . The title of Emily’s thesis is “Effect of Serotonin on Mating Success in Teleopsis dalmanni ”. The public portion of Emily’s defense will begin promptly at 1 pm. If you...

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!

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