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Ali Alghamdi Ph.D. Student Dr. Diana Tomback's Lab Department of Integrative Biology When: 10/28/2025 - Time: 11:00 am Where: Science Building 4127 Ecological Restoration in Forest and Aridland Systems: Nature-Based Solutions to Counter Disturbance and Degradation. My dissertation investigates how ecosystems recover when disturbances push them to their resilience limits...

Ryan Jones Ph.D. Degree Candidate Advisor: Dr. Paula Cushing (Denver Museum of Nature and Science) When: Friday, October 17th, 2025, 12:00pm Where: Science Building, Room 2001 A phylogenomic and biogeographic hypothesis for North American solifuge family Eremobatidae (Arachnida: Solifugae) and the resurrection of genus Eremospina Roewer Quantifying and qualifying biodiversity...

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...

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...

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...