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Desert mosses use quartz rocks as sun shades
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 08/10/2020 - 15:39A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the California desert seek protection from the relentless sun and heat by sheltering under translucent quartz pebbles, essentially using the rocks as sunshades.
The soil under these rocks retains more moisture than exposed desert soil, said Jenna Ekwealor, while enough light leaks through the milky quartz to allow the tiny mosses to remain green with chlorophyll. Mosses actually prefer dim light, making these conditions ideal for growth.
Congratulations to Britt Koskella on your Promotion to Associate Professor
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 16:46Professor Koskella is an evolutionary biologist seeking to understand how interactions among species generate and maintain much of the diversity you see on earth. She is interested in how species interactions influence genetic diversity within populations, diversity between populations, and species diversity at the community level. By combining evolutionary theory on coevolution, population dynamics, and infection genetics, she directly tests the underlying assumptions and predicted outcomes of host-pathogen and microbial interactions through the
Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant awardees announced
Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 10:39The Department of Integrative Biology is one of the winners of the first-ever Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grants. Launched by the office of UC Berkeley Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Bill Allison in the office of Chief Information Officer Larry Conrad, the winning projects, announced today (Thursday, June 25), will share $400,000 in general funds that were earmarked by Conrad in the 2019-2020 school year for information technology (IT
Meet our recent IB PhD graduates!
Submitted by Tanya Sullivan on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 15:05
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our most recent PhD graduates and welcoming them as important members of the IB alumni community! Read more...
Congratulations to UCMP's Director of Education and Outreach, Dr. Lisa White the newly appointed Chair of the AGU s (American Geophysical Union) Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee.
Submitted by rhkayen on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 13:26Dr. White joined the UCMP in July 2012 as Director of Education and Outreach. She comes to the UCMP after a 22-year history at San Francisco State University where she held positions of Professor of Geosciences and Associate Dean of the College of Science and Engineering.
Congratulations to IB's Class of 2020!
Submitted by mjalbe on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 08:48We are so proud of each and every one of you and wish we could celebrate your remarkable achievements in person.
Read the Spring 2020 IB Insight newsletter
Submitted by rhkayen on Wed, 05/20/2020 - 12:53The IB Insight Spring 2020 newsletter is here! Join us in celebrating the extraordinary accomplishments of IB's women in this edition honoring the 150 year anniversary of women being admitted to Cal.
To climb like a gecko, robots need toes!
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 09:47Biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics observed geckos running horizontally along walls to learn how they use their five toes to compensate for different types of surfaces without slowing down.
“The research helped answer a fundamental question: Why have many toes?” said Robert Full, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology.
Congratulations to Julianne Peláez for being selected as a recipient of the 2020-2021 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship!
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 05/04/2020 - 09:51The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition, through a collaborative process involving expert evaluators in both countries.