Congratulations to Arielle Wolf, Professor of Instruction + ISA Director Lori Adams, Associate Professor Albert Erives, and Professor Bryan Phillips on their publication in Cells & Development! They collaborated with UI undergrad alumna Amanda Adams. Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Associate Professor & CCI Director Michael Dailey, PhD, on his publication in Toxicological Sciences! Dr. Dailey collaborated with researchers from the University of Iowa, University of Missouri, & Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read here: academic.oup.com/toxsci/artic...

On Monday, September 22, our two iBio Graduate Student Seminar speakers will be Thea Tian (Smolikove Lab) & MaKella Steffensen (Forbes Lab). The first seminar will begin at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome, & we hope to see you there supporting our incredible graduate students!

Meet the members of the Eberl Lab! 👂🔬 Professor Dan Eberl is the principal investigator of this lab, which is interested in the molecular and cellular mechanisms of how organisms detect sound, and how they use the information from sounds to direct their behavior. eberl.lab.uiowa.edu

Our seminar this week will be led by Yumi Kim, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. The seminar will begin at 3:30pm on Friday, September 19th, in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome to attend, and we hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Israel Wipf (Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student, Tootle Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

On Monday, September 15, our two iBio Graduate Student Seminar speakers will be Brady Williquett (Manak Lab) and Kelsi Mann (Houston Lab). The first seminar will begin at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome, and we hope to see you there supporting our incredible graduate students!

Meet the members of the Phillips Lab! This lab studies cell fate determination in C. elegans. From left to right: Emily Hirsch (iBio PhD student), Professor Bryan Phillips, Daniela Santos Da Mata (iBio PhD student), Kassandra Sigafus (Biology undergraduate), and Kylie Pyatt (Biology undergraduate).

Our seminar this week will be led by Alex Kleinpeter, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Iowa. The seminar will begin at 3:30pm on Friday, September 12, in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome to attend, & we hope to see you there!

On Monday, September 8, our two iBio Graduate Student Seminar speakers will be Shulin Liu (Fassler Lab) and Christian Weinrich (Forbes Lab). The first seminar will begin at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome, & we hope to see you there supporting our incredible graduate students!

The UI Department of Biology is seeking a Service Core Center Manager. This position will play a pivotal role in supporting cutting-edge scientific research by managing multiple core research facilities within the department. For more info, visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/service...

Join us for our 1st seminar of the semester tomorrow, September 5, at 3:30pm in BBE101! The seminar will be led by Jeffrey Vedanayagam, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. All are welcome to attend!

The University of Iowa Department of Biology is hosting a Homecoming Event for alumni and friends of the department on Friday, September 26th! Join us for a tour and social gathering with current faculty, staff, and students. RSVP here by Monday, September 15th: uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country. All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Shulin Liu (Integrated Biology PhD student, Fassler Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

We had a fantastic time at the 2025 Biology Research Retreat! Events included oral presentations from faculty and graduate students, a poster session, and an awards ceremony. A huge thank you to the Coralville Public Library for hosting us!

Congratulations to Brady Williquett (Integrated Biology PhD student, Manak Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Happy first day of classes, Hawkeyes! We hope everyone has a fantastic semester! 🖤💛

On Monday, August 25th, our two iBio Graduate Student Seminar speakers will be Adrianna Caro (Green Lab) and Emily Hirsch (Phillips Lab). The seminar will begin at 3:30 PM in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there supporting our incredible graduate students!

Celebrate the upcoming school year during the CLAS Welcome Party! Stop by the Pentacrest Lawn to grab a free t-shirt and stickers, as well as enjoy lawn games, cookies, and photos from 3:00-4:30 PM this afternoon. This event is open to all new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students.

Congratulations to Emily Hirsch (Integrated Biology PhD student, Phillips Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Congratulations to Riley McCoy (Biomedical Sciences) & Bhoomika Shettigar (Neuroscience) for winning 2nd & 3rd place, respectively, in the ISA’s poster competition at the 2025 SURC! We also commend Christina Yu (Neuroscience) for receiving the Best “First Time Presenter” Award in the competition. 🎉

Congratulations to Thea Tian (Integrated Biology PhD student, Smolikove Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Congratulations to Joseph Oberlitner (Smolikove Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

The Summer 2025 REU in Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Sciences is officially over and we are thrilled with the undergraduates' work over the summer! To check out the interactive digital posters they created during their time in the program, visit: www.thinglink.com/view/scene/2...

Congratulations to Jie Li (Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student, Tootle Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

On July 30th, several students affiliated with one of our department’s majors, research labs, or programs (e.g., Iowa Sciences Academy) participated in the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Conference.

Congratulations to Ashley Goll (Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student, Tootle Lab) for receiving a 2025 Graduate College Summer Fellowship! 🎉 This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced PhD students to benefit from supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Katheryn Rothenberg (@krothphd.bsky.social) for receiving the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology from the American Association for Anatomy! 👏 Dr. Rothenberg was formally recognized for this award at the Anatomy Connected 2025 Closing Awards Ceremony in March.

Congratulations to Alexys McGuire, M.S., for successfully defending her thesis on July 10th! Alexys was mentored by Assistant Professor of Biology Dan Summers, Ph.D. Let’s give Alexys a huge round of applause for this remarkable achievement! 👏

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dan Summers for receiving the Williams-Cannon Faculty Fellowship! 👏 The fellowship, created through a gift to the UI Center for Advancement from Sue and Frank Cannon, supports faculty research in neurodegeneration and provides $47,500 in research funding.

Congratulations to UI Department of Biology alumnus Hector Sanchez Melendez (B.S. in Neuroscience in Spring 2023 and former Iowa Sciences Academy student) for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award, announced in Spring 2025! 👏

The UI Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in genetics, beginning in the academic year 2026. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2025. For more information about the position & to apply, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

Congratulations to Biology majors Nyla Valencia (Women’s Wrestling), Sydnie Smith (Women’s Track & Field), and Abigail (Abby) Ryon (Women’s Track & Field) for being named to the 2025 Spring Academic All-Big Ten team!

Kristýna Bubeníková, a PhD student from Charles University in the Czech Republic, arrived at the University of Iowa in November 2024 as a Fulbright Masaryk Scholar. In the Forbes Lab, she studied Torymus parasitoid wasps and their evolutionary interactions with oak gall wasps through July 2025.

Meet the members of the GRE (Gene Regulatory Evolution) Lab! 🧬 Associate Professor Bin Z. HE is the principal investigator of this lab, which aims to understand how gene regulatory networks for stress responses evolve and how this may have contributed to species’ adaptation to their environment.

Congratulations to Professor Maurine Neiman (@maurineneiman.bsky.social) for receiving the Global Research Partnership Award from the University of Iowa International Programs! 🎉 In recognition of the increasing importance of globalization in higher education research, the GRPA is intended to...

Congratulations to undergraduate student Rain Johnson (Biology on the Integrative Biology track; Eberl Lab) for receiving the Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) Fellowship for the summer of 2025! 👏 This fellowship is awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR).

Way to go, Emma and Kaylee! 🎉

The UI Department of Biology is seeking a bi-weekly part-time employee to work in the Drosophila Culture Media Lab (Fly Kitchen). This position helps support the department’s research and teaching labs which use Drosophila (fruit flies) in genetics experiments. jobs.uiowa.edu/content/temp...

Congratulations to undergraduate student Olivia Blake (Biology on the Neurobiology track; Eberl Lab) for receiving the Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! 👏 This fellowship is awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR).

Congratulations to Professor and DSHB Director Douglas Houston (@dhouston.bsky.social) for receiving a grant from the National Institutes of Health titled, “DSHB: Innovations in open sharing of antibodies for research”! 👏 The grant is for 4 years in the amount of $2,188,873.

Congratulations to Jessica Miller and Darby Forsyth for receiving 2nd and 3rd place respectively in the 2025 Quick Pitch Challenge! The QPC is a communication competition that challenges undergraduate students to present their research or creative work to a general audience in three minutes.

Congratulations to Bin Z. HE, PhD, for his promotion to associate professor! 👏 Dr. HE joined the Dept. of Biology in 2018. He is the principal investigator of the Gene Regulatory Lab where he and his team use yeast pathogens to investigate how stress response networks are rewired during evolution.

Congratulations to Jerzy Twarowski, Ph.D., for successfully defending his dissertation on June 19th! Dr. Twarowski was mentored by Anna Malkova, Ph.D. Let’s give Jerzy a huge round of applause for this remarkable achievement! 👏

In May, middle school students from Iowa participated in the Project HOPE (Healthcare Occupations Preparation and Exploration) event on the University of Iowa campus. During the event, students had the opportunity to experience career simulations of various healthcare and research occupations.

Congratulations to Kendra Musmaker, Ph.D., for successfully defending her dissertation on June 18th! Dr. Musmaker was mentored by Anna Malkova, Ph.D. Let’s give Kendra a huge round of applause for this remarkable achievement! 👏

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Instruction Brandon Waltz, PhD, & undergrad student Lilly Froehlich for publishing their biology-oriented children’s book, “Water Bear Don’t Care!" 🎉 Illustrated by Lilly, this book is a playful & educational journey into the resilient world of tardigrades.

The J.J. Neiman-Brown Academic Caretaking Fund was established in memory of UI Biology Professor @maurineneiman.bsky.social's son J.J., a kind & inquisitive child who brightened the day of everyone he met with his smile. The fund supports child or other caretaking costs for UI faculty...

The UI Department of Biology is participating in the Summer Food Drive Competition to support the Food Pantry at Iowa! The competition runs now through August 10th. We have a box located in the Biology Administrative Office (BB143) where you can drop off items. Help us stock the Food Pantry at Iowa!