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Congratulations to Dr. Timberley Roane, Department of Integrative Biology Assoc. Professor for being the 2019-20 recipient of the Chase Faculty Community Service Award. The award recognizes a full-time University of Colorado Faculty member who, in addition to his or her university responsibilities, has, pro bono, provided exceptional educational, humanitarian, civic...

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,...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

Dr. Simon P. Lailvaux Virginia Kock/Audubon Nature Institute Chair in Species Preservation University of New Orleans When: Sept. 11th, 2020 at Noon Where: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Symmorphosis in a multivariate world: trade-offs and constraints on lizard whole-organism performance...

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...

Dr. Gavin Jones Research Ecologist USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM When: Sept. 4 th, at Noon Where: Seminar will be presented via Zoom. Title: “It depends”: emphasizing ecological nuance to make science more meaningful for conservation. There is a tendency in applied conservation science to identify simple, parsimonious explanations for...