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Welcome to the 2023 Spring Seminar Series. Below you will find a calendar list of all our seminars as well as detailed information for each speaker's presentation. We hope you will enjoy our lineup this semester!

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	WEBSITE
Jan 27	Kathy Kelsey	CU Denver	https://kathykelsey.weebly.com/
Feb 3	Mike Logan	University of Nevada Reno	https://www.evolutioninthetropics.com/
Feb 10	Paula Fornwalt	USFS	https://www.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/people/pfornwalt
Feb 17	Megan Bontrager	University of Toronto	https://meganbontrager.github.io/
Feb 24	Alisha Shah	Michigan State University	https://www.thermbio.org/
Mar 3	Jari Willing	Bowling Green University	https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/psychology/people/jari-willing.html
Mar 10	Emma Robinson	CU Denver	https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/display/28470597
Mar 17	William Farfan-Rios	Wake Forest University	https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GvAHsjAAAAAJ&hl=en
Mar 31	Kim Sheldon	University of Tennessee	http://www.biogeographyresearch.org/
Apr 7	Catherine Wagner	University of Wyoming	https://cewagnerlab.com/
Apr 14	Eric Riddell	Iowa State University	http://www.ecophysiology.org/
Apr 21	Zuzana Burivalova	University of Wisconsin	https://www.soundforestlab.org/
Apr 28	Emily Moore	University of Denver	https://emilythegeneticist.com/
May 5	Matt Graham	Eastern Connecticut State University	https://scorpiophilia.wordpress.com/

2023 Spring Seminar Series-Dr. Michael Logan

Jan. 27, 2023

2023 Spring Seminar Series Presents Dr. Michael Logan Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Nevada, Reno WHEN: Feb. 3, 2023, at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom and in person in the North Classroom, Room 1207. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar, please email jacki.craig@ucdenver.edu to...

How To Save the Whitbark Pine

Jan. 20, 2023

Diana Tomback is interviewed in this current article in the HighCountry News; “We’re relying on the bird,” said Diana Tomback, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver who studies whitebark pine. “It will take multiple human lifetimes for whitebark pines’ range to be re-established, and Clark’s nutcrackers’ seed dispersal...

Dr. Diana Tomback and Dr. Elizabeth Pansing interviewed on Whitebark Pine being protected by the Endangered Species Act

Dec. 20, 2022

Dr. Diana Tomback , Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, CU Denver, is a pioneer in research on Whitebark Pine, a widely distributed western forest species in the U.S. and Canada that is facing multiple threats, including exotic disease and climate change. In 2001 Diana became founding director of...

Dr. Michael Moore interviewed in The Washington Post

Nov. 29, 2022

Dr. Michael Moore was interviewed in a light-hearted article about a serious problem in the November 28, 2022 edition of The Washington Post. The article “Less attractive, less picky; How mating is changing in a hotter world ” (Leave it to climate to teach us that looks aren’t everything), is...

Peering Into The Invisible Present: How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now

Nov. 9, 2022

In this article featured on “ The Long Now Foundation ” website, Michael Moore , Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, CU Denver, talked about his first experience finding data for his research on the iNaturalist app - Not surprisingly, scientists have already published more than 2,800 studies...

Alyssa Davidge Featured in Denver Field Ornithologist's "The Lark Bunting"

Jan. 27, 2023

Alyssa Davidge, CU Denver Integrative Biology Master’s candidate was featured on page 15, in Denver Field Ornithologist’s January publication, The Lark Bunting . Alyssa, will be giving a public presentation, “How Historical Redlining Led Denver’s Cooper”s Hawks to Live Where They Do”, during the DFO’s Winter/Spring Program. Alysia is a...

Anschutz Undergraduate Research Summer Program Info Sessions

Dec. 9, 2022

Are you an undergraduate looking for an opportunity to conduct research at CU Anschutz over Summer 2023? Join these upcoming info sessions to learn the specifics about different programs available, upcoming deadlines, and tips for your applications. Monday, December 5, 2022 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Register in Handshake...

Anschutz Undergraduate Research Summer Program Info Sessions

Dec. 2, 2022

2022 Dissemination/Travel Grants

Nov. 28, 2022

Congratulations to Laurel Sindewald (Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Diana Tomback's lab) and Ryan Jones (Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Paula Cushing's lab) for each receiving a $250 Dissemination/Travel Grant. The Integrative Biology Awards, Scholarships, and Outreach (ASO) Committee selected Laurel and Ryan for the grants to help fund conference attendance and...

Zoe Erkenbeck named CLAS Outstanding MS Graduate for Fall 2022

Nov. 11, 2022

Congratulations to Zoe Erkenbeck on being named CLAS Outstanding MS Graduate for Fall 2022. Zoe will be recognized at the fall commencement and at the CLAS reception in Spring, 2023

Congratulations to Zoe Erkenbeck on successfully defending her thesis!

Nov. 7, 2022

The Department is happy to announce that Zoe successfully defended her M.S. Thesis! Zoe is going to graduate this December and then seek employment in a research based position to continue similar work with a Federal Agency such as USGS. Department of Integrative Biology Graduate Thesis Defense Zoe Erkenbeck M.S...

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Hayes on her successful Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

Oct. 7, 2022

Department of Integrative Biology Graduate Dissertation Defense Katherine Hayes Ph.D. Degree Candidate CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology Dr. Brian Buma’s Lab When: November 7, 2022, 3:30p-5:30p Where: Student Commons Building, Room ACAD 1401 Short-interval reburning changes forest composition, carbon, and fire behavior of boreal forests If you want to...

Trevor Carter, Katherine Hayes and Dr. Brian Buma co-author article published in Landscape Ecology

July 19, 2022

Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests Large scale native spruce beetle outbreaks and fires are major disturbances in high elevation forests throughout western North America. These disturbances have independently impacted hundreds of thousands of...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Thesis Defense - Jeffrey Mayfield

July 13, 2022

Congratulations Jeffrey on your successful thesis defense! CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology M.S. Thesis Defense Jeffrey Mayfield M.S. Degree Candidate, Dr. Amanda Charlesworth’s Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology WHEN: July 22, 2022 WHERE: Room SI 2001 at 11:00am "Protein and RNA Interactions of Zygote Arrest Proteins 1...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Thesis Defense - Andrew McDevitt

July 13, 2022

Congratulations Dr. Andrew McDevitt on successfully defending your thesis! CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology PhD Thesis Defense Andrew McDevitt PhD Degree Candidate, Dr, Laurel Hartley's Lab WHEN : July 21, 2022 WHERE : Room SI 1111 at 1:00p "Advancing Understanding of Student-Centered Instruction in Undergraduate STEM by Promoting the...

2022 Spring Integrative Biology Student Excellence Awardees

June 8, 2022

The Department would like to announce the recipients of our 2022 Spring Student Excellence Awards. This year we had four awardees, two graduate students and one undergraduate student in the Research Award category, and one undergraduate student in the Teaching Award category. Students were allowed to submit self-nominations but also...

Denver Cafe Sci on April 27 at Blake St. Tavern

April 22, 2022

Join us at the Blake St Tavern on 27 April 2022 at 6:30pm! Our speaker: Sukumar Vijayaraghavan, PhD The Topic: The Brain is Plastic, yet Biodegradable- Lessons from the Cholinergic System Acetylcholine is a major neurotransmitter in the brain and, coupled with receptors that bind it, forms the brain cholinergic...

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