News: Integrative Biology

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Research

Scientists on the Trail of Central Texas’ Elusive Satan Fish

The fish are part of a project to monitor the overall ecological health of Central Texas aquifers and better understand how water flows through them.

X-ray image of a fish from above and from the side

Features

Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within...

This image shows the turbulent gas structures in a three-dimensional, multi-physics supercomputer simulation during the formation of such massive clusters, with the red-to-violet rainbow spectrum representing gas at high-to-low densities.

Research

Cracking the Code: Why Flu Pandemics Come At the End of Flu Season

Graduate student Spencer Fox and his colleagues found strong evidence that the late timing of flu pandemics is caused by two opposing factors.

Hypothetical seasonal flu epidemic spread (not based on real or simulated data) is depicted here

Research

UT Austin and Texas A&M Scientists Seek to Turn Plant Pests into Plant Doctors

Sap-sucking pests could deliver gene therapy to plants under attack from diseases, droughts or floods

Oleander aphid.

Research

Why Poison Frogs Don’t Poison Themselves

The answer might provide clues for developing better drugs to fight pain and addiction

This frog was captured at a banana plantation in the Azuay province in southern Ecuador in August 2017.

Research

Project Explores Fate of Coral Reefs and Related Life

Researchers around the world, including UT Austin's Misha Matz, published a paper which could help predict the future of coral reefs in a changing environment.

A coral reef

Features

Meet Six Incredible Women from UT Austin Science History

From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of...

Illustration of the six women in the article by Jenna Luecke.

Research

Overuse of Antibiotics Brings Risks for Bees — and for Us

A new study suggests antibiotics could play a role in colony collapse disorder.

Honey bees on a hive with pink or green dots painted on their backs

Accolades

Professor Mike Ryan Receives Lifetime Career Award

“Mike Ryan is one of the most influential animal behaviorists working in the world today, and as such is highly deserving of this lifetime award.”

Mike Ryan

Accolades

Mathew Leibold Named Fellow of Ecological Society of America

Mathew Leibold, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, was elected a fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

Matthew Leibold at a table in front of a bookshelf