Jie Li a PhD student in the Cell and Developmental Biology Program and a member of the Tootle Lab, received a Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for the Spring 2025 semester.

University of Iowa researchers have found and confirmed a gene that allows female fruit flies to get on the same frequency as courting males. Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual, meaning that canceling the gene could in theory control mosquito population growth.

The Department of Biology is accepting applications for an instructional track faculty position beginning in August 2025.

iBio PhD Student, Dakota Thompson, received the Iowa Recruitment Fellowship from the UI Graduate College.

Israel Wipf, a fourth-year graduate student in Tina Tootle's lab in the Department of Biology, won the 2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition, in which graduate students share their research in three minutes or less to a general audience.

Biology Undergraduate student, Jasmyn Hoeger, received the Student Poster Award at the Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center's 50th Anniversary Symposium.

The Department of Biology's most recent newsletter is now available.

Jorge Moreno is on a dizzying life ascent. The University of Iowa alumnus was born into a migrant family and entered Iowa as a first-generation student. After faltering initially, he has earned multiple degrees and now is a research scientist attempting to unlock the molecular secrets to immortality

The Department of Biology is inviting applications for an instructional track faculty position (non-tenure track) beginning August 2025. This position will primarily contribute to administration and instruction in the neurobiology courses.

Professor Sarit Smolikove was featured in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' "Meet the Researchers." Learn more about Dr. Smolikove and her research on understanding DNA damage repair, which is directly related to cancer formation and cancer therapy.