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Seeking Candidates for Service Core Center Manager position

Friday, December 5, 2025
The Department of Biology is seeking candidates for a Service Core Center Manager.

iBio Master's Student Successfully Defends Thesis

Thursday, December 4, 2025
Congratulations to iBio graduate student, Kieran Coffey (Green Lab), on successfully defending his thesis!

Genetics PhD Student Successfully Defends Dissertation

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Congratulations to Genetics PhD student, Julianna Koenig (Summers Lab), on successfully defending her dissertation!

Iowa Biologists' study of snail's evolutionary history could further reveal how animals evolve

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.

Fall 2025 Newsletter Now Available

Thursday, November 6, 2025
Check out the Department of Biology's Fall 2025 Newsletter!

2025-2026 Incoming Graduate Students

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
The Department of Biology welcomed new PhD and MS candidates in our Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program this fall.

New Faculty and Staff join the Department of Biology

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The Department of Biology welcomed several new faculty and staff this fall.

Update: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Genetics position

Thursday, October 30, 2025
The Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Genetics beginning in the academic year 2026.

Former Undergraduate Student's First Author Paper featured in Yale Scientific Magazine

Friday, October 17, 2025
A former undergraduate student's first author paper in eNeuro was recently featured in the Yale Scientific Magazine.
Andrew Forbes (left), professor in the Department of Biology, and postdoctoral researcher Louis Nastasi stand in front of a chalkboard in Forbes' lab. Nastasi drew the wasp on the chalkboard, which also includes potential names for any new parasitic wasp species.

Galls, thieves, and parasites: UI biologists unspool wild world of oak-dwelling wasps

Friday, October 17, 2025
The Forbes Lab is revealing the unknown ecological world of parasitic wasps, which have value to cataloging biological diversity and controlling insect pests in agriculture and forests.