It has been a little over a year since the death of Gabriel Trujillo, a beloved member of the IB community. Gabe was a doctoral candidate exploring the ecology and evolution of plants in the genus Cephalanthus, commonly known as button bush. Gabe was in search of a population of these plants in Sonora, Mexico, when he was killed on 19 June 2023.
Integrative Biology graduate student Robert Leija and the whole Professor George Brooks Lab make a discovery. The study was part of a larger NIH-funded study to determine how well people switch from fat to carbohydrate metabolism as they age. Read the Berkeley News Article.
A new study by IB researchers (Professor Cindy Looy, PhD alum Rosemary Romero, and BA alum Tony Huynh) and collaborators shows that kelp flourished off the Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups of marine mammals, sea urchins, birds and bivalves that today call the forests home.
Integrative Biology graduate students José Adan Arevalo and Emily Lam outside the inflatable escape room that is traveling to museums and libraries around the country to provide a fun way for families to learn about biology and evolution. Arevalo voiced some of the Spanish-language audio used in the game. Read more...
Professor of Integrative Biology, Jack Tseng, and IB graduate student Sergio Garcia Lara, co-authored a paper in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of a series on the evolution of the mammalian skull. The study was based on a database they created of more than 1,000 vertebrate jaws. Read more here...
Photo credit: Ruth Hartnup
IB graduate student Kyle Rosenblad and his faculty mentor, Professor David Ackerly, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently about how Western forests are not adapting fast enough to match the current rate of climate change. Read more about it in the Daily Cal...
Former IB postdoc Brian Swartz and IB professor Brent Mishler, present their new book entitled Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries. It includes 9 chapters containing wide-ranging discussions about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it, integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the six 2022 Vallee Scholars. The Vallee Scholar program continues to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers.
Position Overview
Anticipated start: 7/1/2023
APPLICATION WINDOW: Open August 23, 2022 through Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
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