Department of Integrative Biology
Professor Doris Bachtrog Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Integrative Biology Professor Doris Bachtrog was elected to the American Academic of Arts & Sciences in 2024. She was elected in the Evolution and Ecology section of the Biological Sciences elected members.
IB Participating in Big Give 24
This Thursday, March 14 is Big Give, the annual online giving day when the entire UC Berkeley community comes together to support their favorite departments and programs. Join us this year in our support of the Department of Integrative Biology. Every gift makes a difference. On March 14, follow this link to donate to IB and show your support for our students.
Science Perspective: Amphibian hatchlings find mother’s milk
Integrative Biology Professor of the Graduate School, Marvalee Wake, shares her thoughts on recent findings about amphibians that provide "milk" to their young. Read her perspective in the journal Science here, and read more about the discovery in the New York Times article.
Museums' vertebrate collections go online — in 3D
CT scans of animal skeletons are now available to anyone, including those with 3D printers. Read more here...
Application Now Open: IB Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program
Justice Williams and Stephen Eun Song, 2023 IBSURE interns.
The IB Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (IB SURE) Program has now opened it's application. This program is for undergraduates or recent undergraduates who are considering a graduate degree in the biological sciences. Program runs from May 31 - Aug 9, 2024. Interested students should apply by April 1, 2024. See here for more information.
Sparrows uniquely adapted to Bay Area marshes are losing their uniqueness
Phred Benham, a postdoc in the Bowie Lab.
A new genomic analysis of Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) from around the state — many of them collected as far back as 1889, their specimens stored in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley — shows that over the past 128 years, the Bay Area's sparrow's adaptation to salt water is being diminished by interbreeding with inland sparrows adapted to fresh water. Read More...
Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought
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. Read more...