UW Oshkosh Biology Department

The UW Oshkosh Department of Biology has faculty with expertise ranging from microbes to mammals, from physiology to paleontology, from behavior to bioinformatics.

News & Announcements

31 August 2023: Please click here to view the first Biology department newsletter!

4 August 2023: Biology major Brittany Dupree and her mentor Dr. Jessica Lucas publish on the biometry of stomatal pores in corn. (Lucas & Dupree 2023, MicroPubl. Biol.)

27 June 2023: Members of the Stelzer lab use fourier-transformed infrared spectrometry to identify plastic particles in Wisconsin watersheds.

27 April 2023: Congratulations to biology students Geryd Steffek and Brian Conway, who received best presentation awards for their research at the UWO Celebration of Scholarship!

1 March 2023: Dr. Laura Ladwig contributes to research that predicts how plant communities will change over time in savannah ecosystems. [Ahler et al. 2023, Plant Ecol.]

13 January 2023: Members of the Mitchell lab contribute to the genome project of the western corn rootworm, one of the most serious pests of corn in the United States. [Coates et al. 2023, BMC Genomics]

11 November 2022: Dr. Morgan Churchill contributes to research that used cranial shape to identify social behavior, parental care, and herbivory as major drivers of evolution among placental mammals. [Goswami et al. 2022, Science]

7 October 2022: Dr. David Krause leads a study revealing the evolutionary history of anaerobic growth in yeasts [Krause & Hittinger 2022, Mol. Biol. Evol.]