The Department of Biology studies life at all levels from molecules to the biosphere
to understand the evolution, structure, maintenance and dynamics of biological systems.
Our teaching and research provide the integrative and conceptual foundations of
the life sciences.
News and Events
Sea level rise and coastal forests
Jack Putz recently published an article about the effects of sea level rise on coastal forests around Florida. This article summarizes research by many faculty and students form the department. Click on "More" to read the full article.
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Congratulations to our graduate students!
It's the time of the year when awards, grants and other forms of academic excellence are being recognized. The graduate students of the department received recently quite a few of these recognitions. Grant Godden received a NSF DDIG award to investigate the phylogeny of mints. Mike Gil received the award for the best oral presentation at the Benthic Ecology Meeting. Nicole Botteri received the UF Graduate Student Teaching Award. Congratulations to all of them!
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Congratulations to Todd Palmer
Assistant Professor Todd Palmer was awarded a 5-year NSF CAREER award for his research on the mutualism between acacias and their ant bodyguards in Africa. Acacias can live over 100 years. During their lifetime, the trees associate with various species of ants which all have different effects on their hosts. The goal of this project is to evaluate how the costs and benefits of multiple partnerships integrate over the lifetime of these long-lived trees.
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Congratulations to Keith Choe
Assistant Professor Keith Choe is the recipient of the 2012 New Investigator Award from the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology section of the American Physiological Society. The award will be presented at the Experimental Biology meeting (a huge meeting that includes concurrent meetings of several societies and some 10,000 attendees) in San Diego, April 21-25, 2012. Congratulations to Keith on receiving this honor!
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Congratulations to three graduate students who were given 2012 UF-HHMI Science for Life Graduate Student Awards
Graduate students, Kristine Callis,
Katrina Cuddy and Hannah Vander Zanden received the 2012 UF-HHMI Science for Life Graduate Student Award. These awards recognize the commitment to these students to act as mentors for undergraduate students, to use an interdisciplinary approach to science, and to be successful at publishing their works as well as getting grants, awards and fellowships. Click on "More" to learn more about the Science for Life program.
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