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Faculty Position in Vertebrate Paleontology

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

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 adapta

Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome’s ability to protect against disease

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 patho

How Stress Changes Your Brain: An Interview With Professor Daniela Kaufer

What is stress? According to IB's Professor Daniela Kaufer, stress can be a healthy response to a perceived threat.