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Emmy Johnson M.S. Thesis Defense

Emmy Johnson Master's Degree Candidate Advisor: Dr. Laurel Hartley CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Friday, October 10th, 2025, 12:00pm Where: Science Building, Room 2001 Impacts of Professional Development on Perceptions and Emotions of Graduate Teaching Assistants as Mentors in Biology CUREs (Course-Based Undergraduate Research) through the framework of...

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Alex Moss PhD Dissertation Defense

Alex Moss Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Dr. Michael Greene CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology When: Friday, October 10th 2025, 9:00am Where: Science Building, Room 4127 (4th Floor Conference Room) Follow the leader: Group recruitment in the "greedy" ant T etramorium immigrans Urban environments are one of the fastest growing environments...

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Axel Espinoza M.S. Thesis Defense

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...

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Audrey Spencer Ph.D. Defense

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...

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Jillyn Tittle Comprehensive Exam

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...

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Derick Singleton M.S. Defense

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...

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My-Lan Le Successfully Defends Master's Thesis!

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...

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Roy Rutherford Successfully Defends Master's Thesis!

April 3, 2025

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...

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Goran Shikak Successfully Defends Master's Thesis!

Nov. 7, 2024

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...

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Joseph Tucker Comprehensive Exam

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...

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