Integrative Biology focuses on integration across biological levels, with the organism as a center point and moving up (populations, communities, ecosystems) and down (physiology, cell, genome)
Advantage: option/flexibility to expand into different biological realms
Half of our graduate students have faculty from different streams in their advisory committee, illustrating the integrative nature of the department
Acknowledges the history of the department, with the integration of the botany and zoology departments in the early 2000s