Six graduate students in the Department of Biology received fellowships from the University of Iowa Graduate College for the Spring 2026 semester.

Kara Juhl, a Biology undergraduate student, shares about her recent experience studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, at the CIEE 78th Annual Study Abroad Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Amil Brown, who worked as an undergraduate student in the Forbes Lab in the Department of Biology and graduated with a bachelor's degree in December 2025, reflects on her experience at the University of Iowa.

Sean Strand, a Biology undergraduate student, received the first place People's Choice Award in the 2025 Capture Your Research Photo Contest for his work in the Tootle Lab.

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.