Bhoomika Shettigar, majoring in Neuroscience, and Riley McCoy, a Biomedical Sciences student, attended the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference held November 15-19, 2025, at the San Diego Convention Center. Riley and Bhoomika are students in the Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) and shared their experiences with attending SfN.

The Department of Biology is seeking candidates for a Service Core Center Manager.

Kristina Venzke, Associate Director of the Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA), celebrated her 25 years at the University of Iowa. The Department of Biology is the administrative home of ISA, which has a range of programs supporting undergraduate students interested in research and scientific communication. Congratulations Kristina!

Congratulations to iBio graduate student, Kieran Coffey (Green Lab), on successfully defending his thesis!

Congratulations to Genetics PhD student, Julianna Koenig (Summers Lab), on successfully defending her dissertation!

University of Iowa biologists have traced the snail’s evolutionary history through its genome and discovered that the species recently duplicated all of its genetic material — a finding that could further reveal how major evolutionary shifts in animals occur.

Check out the Department of Biology's Fall 2025 Newsletter!

The Department of Biology welcomed new PhD and MS candidates in our Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program this fall.

The Department of Biology welcomed several new faculty and staff this fall.

The Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Genetics beginning in the academic year 2026.