Student News

The Department would like to congratulate Tyler on his successful defense of his Masters Thesis. Job well done! Tyler Michels Masters Candidate in Dr. Michael Wunder's Lab CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology The mountain plover ( Charadrius montanus ) is a migratory shorebird that breeds in rangelands of the...

The Department is happy to announce... Lamya'a successfully defended her thesis on March 30, 2020, Congratulations Dr. Dawud! Lamya'a Dawud Thesis Defense - March 30, 2020 From Virginia Ware - PhD candidate Lamya’a Dawud’s defense is taking place via zoom on Monday, March 30 th at 1 pm. I’ve provided...

Graduating senior, Matthew Mitchell , has been accepted into a number of medical schools for Fall 2020. They include Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Colorado, University of Pittsburgh, Creighton University, University of Minnesota, and the MD/PhD program at the University of Cincinnati. Matt has not yet decided where...

The Department would like to congratulate Liam on his successful defense of his thesis. Job well done! "City Bees: An Investigation of the Drivers of Bee Abundance and Bee Richness Along a Rural-to-Urban Gradient" This talk will highlight the bee community of the High Line Canal, an urban greenway in...

In early December, two Integrative Biology undergraduate students, Kristin Olson and Vishnusai Kodicherla , and two graduate students, Kate Hayes and Kyle Turchick , (not pictured) presented their research projects in Alaska at the largest earth science conference in the world, the annual AGU meeting in San Francisco, California. As...

Structural Variants in Health and Disease Genomic disorders often occur as a result of structural variants (SVs) that are caused by rearrangements in unstable regions of the human genome. These types of rearrangements can lead to the loss or gain of dosage-sensitive genes. The rearrangement breakpoints often localize to segmental...

Colorado native Elizabeth “Libby” Pansing spent her high school and undergraduate college years on the slopes, competing nationally in slopestyle (jumps and rails), half pipe, and boardercross. Her parents fostered a love of nature that led her to many adventures off the slopes as well: “I spent a considerable amount...

Kyle Turchick hosts a webinar on COSTAL MARGIN WEBINAR SERIES November 14, 2019 Topic: The role of wind and landslide disturbance in temperate rainforests Presenter: Kyle Turchick, University of Colorado Denver You can hear Kyle’s webinar here.

Lamya’a Dawud M.S., a doctoral student in Dr. Sondra Bland's lab with the department of Integrative and Systems Biology and a recipient of the 2019 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award, CLAS Travel Award, and Graduate School Travel Award has recently returned from presenting a poster at the Society for Neuroscience...

Julie Byle M.S., is doctoral student in Dr. Laurel Hartley's lab with the department of Integrative and Systems Biology and a recipient of the 2019 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award. She has just returned from speaking on the panel at the North American Association for Environmental Education national conference in...