The photograph on the April 2 cover of Science magazine features an image of an octopus mating captured by the late Roy Caldwell, professor emeritus of integrative biology at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. Read the tribute to Professor Caldwell in Science, contributed by Robert Full, Eileen A. Lacey, Tony Morelli, and Michael Caldwell.
UC Berkeley News: One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide: Moisés Expósito-Alonso with the two lead authors of the new study, Tatiana Bellagio and Xing Wu (holding a tray of Arabidopsis seedlings).
UC Berkeley News: Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don't: “It’s just a really amazing example of the power and beauty of convergent evolution, where in nature we have two organisms filling the same ecological role, but when you look in detail, they’re achieving that outcome in two completely different ways,” said Rauri Bowie, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and a study author.
Maro, Corl and Dudley published a paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science, coauthored with their Berkeley colleagues, Rauri Bowie and Jimmy McGuire, both professors of integrative biology and curators in the campus’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Check it out on UC Berkeley News.
Sarahi Arriaga Ramirez is an associate specialist at the Ornithopterus Organismal Dynamics Lab in IB. In collaboration with the Morphing Matter Lab, Arriaga Ramirez led a study on phantom crane flies and robotics that was recently featured in Science News. She presented her findings at the Global Physics Summit in Denver on March 17.
IB PhD candidate, Aleksey Maro, used novel urine analysis to prove wild chimps ingest significant ethanol.
Dr. Moisés Expósito-Alonso, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and Assistant Professor, wins the Genetics Society of America Early Career Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics.
Congratulations to Monica Albe on winning the 2025 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Award!
Dr. Daniel Okamoto, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, presents Zombies of the Nearshore: Sea Urchins in a Changing Ocean at Wonderfest.
Ammon Corl, a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, is highlighted in The New York Times for leading research that revealed the genetic variation behind the side-blotched lizard's unique rock-paper-scissors evolutionary game. Read the full article here.