Department News

Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, and Dan Hernández, Professor and Chair of Biology, have recently published a paper in the journal Restoration Ecology titled Community-level assisted migration for climate-appropriate prairie…

Dan Hernández, Professor and Chair of Biology, co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Trait-based filtering mediates the effects of realistic biodiversity losses on ecosystem functioning. The…

Rika Anderson has received an NSF CAREER award for her work on “Temporal dynamics of microbial and viral function and adaptation in hydrothermal vents”. This funding will support Rika’s research program…

Mike Nishizaki, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his project “Collaborative Research: RUI: Microscale interactions of foundation species with their fluid environment: biological…

Daniel Hernández, Chair of Biology, and Kaitlin Libbey ’19 recently published a paper in Ecosystems, titled “Depth Profile of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation over Two Decades in a Prairie…

If you tune in to Bloomberg’s Moonshot docu-series, you might see a familiar face! Rika Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology was interviewed for an episode called “Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson is…

Raka Mitra and collaborators publish review in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

If interested, you are encouraged to apply for and enroll in Molecular Biology (BIOL 382) this winter! In the course we will investigate the molecular mechanisms of the Central Dogma…

Rika Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology, along with Chris Parsons ’17, Caleb Rosen ’20, and Katherine Mateos ’21, have published a paper in Geobiology entitled “Radiation of nitrogen-metabolizing enzymes tracks environmental transitions…

The Iowa Bird That Inspired Antonín Dvořák’s American String Quartet in 1893: Controversy over the Species’ Identity and Why It Matters