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In Memoriam: Roberta Park

Submitted by Krystin Ventura on Fri, 12/14/2018 - 13:02

Last week, the campus community lost an esteemed colleague as IB Professor Emerita Roberta “Robbie” Park passed away peacefully at the age of 87. Roberta had been an invaluable member of the Physical Education program for more than sixty years, from her time as an undergraduate to her service as a faculty member and department chair of the Department of Physical Education (later Human Dynamics, which merged with Integrative Biology in 1997).

Acrobatic geckos can even race on water’s surface

Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 12/07/2018 - 08:29

Geckos are renowned for their acrobatic feats on land and in the air, but a new discovery that they can also run on water puts them in the superhero category, says a University of California, Berkeley, biologist.

As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve state’s plants

Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 11:29

“We just have a decade or two given the rapid pace of climate and land-use change,” said Brent Mishler, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and director of the University and Jepson Herbaria. “Our opportunities, even 10 years down the line, are way more limited compared to what they are now. What we are going to save, we are going to save quickly. We don’t have forever to leisurely conserve California.”

Read The IB Fall 2018 Newsletter

Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 10:32

Learn about the birth of the department, building a forest from fossil leaves, museum treasure troves, reconnect with your classmates, and much more!

Destructive snails are invading Bay Area waters. And no one knows what to do

Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 13:05

UC Berkeley doctoral student Emily King is studying the behavior of New Zealand mud snails to find a way to stop their infestation.

The tiny black dots on the soggy leaf that Emily King plucked out of Mount Diablo Creek the other day did not look very threatening, but the UC Berkeley biologist knows well how looks can be deceiving.

Faculty Positions in Life Sciences

Submitted by khansen on Fri, 09/28/2018 - 10:10

The University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for up to five tenure-track positions in the Life Sciences with a potential start date of July 1, 2019.

Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder has been named winner of the very first Milner Prize

Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 07:42

Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley has been named winner of the very first Milner Prize by the Milner Centre for Evolution.

Faculty Position in Vertebrate Paleontology

Submitted by khansen on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 10:57

The Department of Integrative Biology (IB) and the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) at the University of California, Berkeley invite applications for a full time tenure-track position in vertebrate paleontology at the Assistant Professor level. Potential start date is July 1, 2019.
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California’s Birds Are Testing New Survival Tactics on a Vast Scale

Submitted by mjalbe on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 16:12

Check out this New York Times article featuring the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology -- "retracing the steps of a century-old wildlife survey, ecologists find that birds are making remarkable adaptations to climate change."

Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome’s ability to protect against disease

Submitted by mjalbe on Fri, 07/27/2018 - 13:30

New research coming out of Assistant Professor Britt Koskella's lab found that spraying tomatoes with microbes from healthy tomatoes protected them from disease-causing bacteria, but that fertilizing the tomatoes beforehand negated the protection, leading to an increase in the population of pathogenic microbes on the plants’ leaves. Read more...