Dr. Libby Pansing Director of Forest and Restoration Science at American Forests Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver - Integrative and Systems Biology M.S., University of Colorado Denver – Integrative Biology B.A., University of Colorado Boulder – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Date: May 2nd Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Denver Campus...
The Department of Integrative Biology is proud to celebrate a lifetime honor for our chair, Dr. Diana Tomback, who has just been named as an AAAS Fellow for the class of 2023! The American Association for the Advancement of Science is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and...
“ Climate change is already forcing lizards, insects and other species to evolve – and most can't keep up”, an article written by Dr. Michael Moore and Dr. James T. Stroud, (Georgia Institute of Technology), was published in the current edition of Yahoo News – “The Conversation addresses. The article...
Diana Tomback, former Integrative Biology graduate student Thomas McLaren, and Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologists, publish a chapter on Clark's nutcrackers and whitebark pine in Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park , a 2023 Princeton University Press book. This book is the first to describe...
The Ricketts Conservation Foundation and American Forests in association with Yellowstone National Park hosted an event on September 28, 2023, at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The event publicized conservation work for whitebark pine and highlighted its seed disperser Clark’s nutcracker. This was the unveiling of a...
Axel Espinoza Master's Degree Candidate Committee Members: Dr. Christopher Phiel, Dr. Carlos Infante, Dr. Xiaojun Ren CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025, 10:00am Where: Science Building, Room 4127 (4th Floor Conference Room) Polycomb Repressive Complex Subunit Interactions Underlying Developmental Gene Regulation Polycomb group (PcG) proteins...
Audrey Spencer Ph.D. Candidate Ackerfield & Bruederle Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology | Denver Botanic Gardens When: Friday, April 25th, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00pm Where: North Classroom, Room 3207 Systematics and Biogeography of the Eastern Asian-North American Disjunct Genus, Physocarpus (Rosaceae) The contemporary distributions of species reflect their...
Jillyn Tittle Ph.D. Student Dr. John D. (Nick) Fisk's Lab Department of Integrative Biology When: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Where: Student Commons (ACAD), Room 2504 Modeling the Molecular Dynamics of Engineered Filamentous Phage Systems for Phage Display Applications Bacteriophages , viruses that infect bacteria, are the most...
Derick Singleton Master's Degree Candidate Miller Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Friday, April 18th, 2025, 9:30am - 10:30am Where: Science Building Room 4127 (Conference Room) Inference and Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Freshwater River Microbial Communities Across the United States Antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic...
Congratulations My-Lan Le! Master's Degree Candidate Moore/Hufft Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Friday, April 18th, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00pm Where: North Classroom, Room 3207 Investigating Ecological Drivers of Reproductive Variation in an Endemic Alpine Plant ( Physaria alpina ): Competition, Pollen Limitation, and Habitat Variation Many rare...
Roy Rutherford Master's Degree Candidate Hartley/Alba Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 3:00pm Where: Science Building, Room 4127 (4th Floor Conference Room) Environmental Health in an Urban Greenway: Assessing Urban Wetland Habitat Features and Larval Mosquito Abundances Mosquitoes are ubiquitous in urban wetlands and...
Congratulations Goran Shikak! Master's Degree Candidate Paula Cushing's Lab | Denver Museum of Nature and Science CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology Date: November 22 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Denver Campus – North Classroom, Room 1604 An Investigation of Rehydration Techniques to Restore Dehydrated Museum Specimens and an Integrative...
Joseph Tucker Ph.D. Student Dr. Alan Vajda's Lab Department of Integrative Biology Date: Thursday, September 19th Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm Location: Science Building, Room 4127 Title: Determining Bioconcentration Factors and Physiological Effects on Pimephales promelas by use of a Complex Mixture of Poly- and Per- Fluoroalkyl Substances Historical use of...
Congratulations Gabrielle Brandt! Ph.D. Degree Candidate Dr. Chris Phiel's Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Thursday, July 11th, 2024, 10:00am Where: Science Building, Room 4127 Regulatory mechanisms underlying mESC pluripotency and m 6 A methylation dynamics: AMF and AMFR Pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) hold immense promise in...
Congratulations Trevor Carter! Ph.D. Degree Candidate Dr. Brian Buma's Lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Friday, April 19th, 2024, 12:00pm Where: Science Building, Room 2001 Carbon Dynamics in the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest: An Ecosystem Science Approach Quantifying forest carbon stocks is crucial for policy decisions and the...
Congratulations to Jessica Romero for receiving the 2023 Fall CLAS Outstanding MS Student Award. The Department would like to recognize both of our nominees for the Fall 2023 CLAS Outstanding Graduate. Student Awards, Laurel Sindewald for PhD and Jessica Romero for MS. Both students have contributed positively to the research...
Congratulations to the 2023 Spring Integrative Biology Student Excellence Award recipients. The Department recognizes outstanding graduate and undergraduate students for their accomplishments in teaching or research. Teaching can include any formal teaching-related activities (e.g., teaching assistants, learning assistants, tutors, supplemental instructors, etc.). Research can include scholarly activities that make an...
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...
Don’t Miss the Next Installment of High-Elevation Five-Needle White Pines: Science and Management Webinar Series! Held the 3 rd Tuesday of each month from 12-1 PM MST. Learn more about this year's webinar series. On November 21st, Stephen Huysman will present: Projecting future whitebark pine susceptibility to white pine blister...
