graduate student – Department of Biology

PhD Student Yun Ye Ho Awarded Grant from Society of Systematic Biologists for Work on Ground-Fruiting Figs

November 5, 2025
graduate student, student awards, Yun Ye Ho

PhD student Yun Ye Ho (Gardner Lab) received a Graduate Student Research Award ($3,000) from the Society of Systematic Biologists for proposal entitled "Underground Underdogs: unveiling the phylogenetics and pollination biology of Southeast Asian earth figs, Figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae), in Borneo." Yun Ye's research focuses on the...

Natalie Saxton Awarded Coleopterists Society Graduate Research Enhancement Award

September 23, 2025
graduate student, Natalie Saxton, student awards

PhD candidate Natalie Saxton was recently awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement award from the Coleopterists Society to support travel to the Queensland Museum, Australia to study dung beetle specimens. Saxton's proposal titled "Reevaluating generic limits in Aptenocanthon Matthews (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)" outlines an integrative taxonomic method using genomic-scale data...

Graduate Welcome 2025!

August 28, 2025
graduate student, orientation week, welcome luncheon

Biology kicked off the 2025-2026 Academic Year by hosting our annual Graduate Welcome Luncheon on Thursday, August 21. Graduate students, staff, and faculty had the chance to meet and mingle in between training, meetings, and planning for the year. Department Chair Dr. Michael Benard gave a few remarks, touching...

Qiannan Ma Publishes First Graduate Paper in FASEB Journal

July 10, 2025
graduate student, Qiannan Ma

Qiannan Ma, a PhD candidate in the Atit lab, published her first paper from her graduate work in the lab in the Journal Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Her paper titled "Wnt Activation in Mature Dermal Adipocytes Leads to Lipodystrophy and Skin Fibrosis via ATGL-Dependent Lipolysis", which highlights...

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