Jeff Benca's computer rendering of the long-extinct lycopod, Leclercqia scolopendra, and accompanying article has been chosen as the cover of March’s centennial issue of the American Journal of Botany. ​Bencas is a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's Lab.  
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Congratulations to members of Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's lab, who presented 6 talks, 2 posters and won several awards at the recent Botanical Society of America meeting.
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Nicholas Matzke, a graduate student in Professor John Huelsenbeck's lab, is the focus of a recent Berkeley NewsCenter article on his research estimating the dates when bacteria invaded early one-celled eukaryotes, a process which led to a symbiotic relationship that resulted in today's mitochondria (in animals) and chloroplasts (in plants).

Dwight Springthrope, an Integrative Biology Graduate Student and a CiBER-IGERT Trainee, received the Judge's Award for this year's Best IGERT Video Poster!  View Poster  |  Read More

Growing up in land-locked Colorado, my childhood experiences involved more snowmen than sand-castles. Although my interactions with the ocean were limited, my fascination with the marine world grew exponentially with every exposure. After becoming SCUBA certified at the age of 15, diving became an integral part of my life, leading me to become an instructor in Zanzibar, Tanzania. After living in Africa and Australia, I conducted research on artificial coral reef systems in Indonesia, assessing the relationship between structural characteristics and diversity.

Berkeley NewsCenter has an in-depth profile of Jeff Benca, an IB graduate student in Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's lab.
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