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Zhanar Abil
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

  • Office: 410 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6850
  • Email: abilz@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Bottom-up synthetic biology, synthetic life, cell-free synthetic biology, experimental in vitro evolution
  • Profile: Zhanar Abil
  • Website: The Abil Lab

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Charles Baer
Professor

  • Office: 621 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-3550
  • Email: cbaer@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Population and Evolutionary Genetics
  • Website: The Baer Lab
  • Profile: Charles F. Baer

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Xiaofei Bai
Pronouns: he/him/his
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 438 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
  • Phone: 352-294-8447
  • Lab: 435 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
  • Lab Phone: 352-294-5735
  • Email: baixiaofei@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Genetics, Precision Disease Modeling, CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing, Developmental and Cell Biology, Mechanobiology, Lipid Biology, and Live-Cell Imaging
  • Profile: Xiaofei Bai
  • Website: The Bai Lab

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William (Brad) Barbazuk
William (Brad) Barbazuk
Professor & Department Chair

  • Office: 407 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
  • Phone: (352) 273-8624
  • Email: bbarbazuk@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Computational, Comparative and Functional Genomics
  • Profile: William (Brad) Barbazuk

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Karen Bjorndal
Pronouns: she/her
Distinguished Professor

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David C. Blackburn
David C. Blackburn
Pronouns: he/him/his
Museum Faculty, Preeminent Scholar
Associate Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles

  • Office: 262 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1943
  • Email: dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Herpetology, Systematics, Africa
  • Website: The Blackburn Lab
  • Profile: Dr. David C. Blackburn

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Jonathan Bloch
Museum Faculty
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chair of the Department of Natural History

  • Office: 222 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1938
  • Email: jbloch@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Vertebrate paleontology
  • Profile: Jonathan I. Bloch | Home

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Edward Braun
Professor

  • Office: 514 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 846-1124
  • Email: ebraun68@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary and comparative genomics
  • Webpage: Edward L. Braun
  • CV: Edward Braun 2019

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John (Gordon) Burleigh
Associate Professor

  • Office: 218 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2776
  • Email: gburleigh@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Computational phylogenetics

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Liming Cai

Pronouns: she/her

  • Office: Office: 311A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: TBD
  • Email: cail@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Interests: Plant systematics, evolutionary genomics, species interaction
  • Website: Website

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Nico Cellinese
Pronouns: she/her
Museum Faculty – Curator of the Herbarium & Informatics

  • Office: 354 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1979
  • Email: ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Flowering plant evolution, systematics, phylogenomics, diversification, biogeography, phylogeography, phyloinformatics.
  • Profile: Dr. Nico Cellinese
  • Website: The Cellinese Lab

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kchoe
Keith Choe
Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor

  • Office: 321 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0139
  • Email: kchoe@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Animal Physiology and Molecular Biology
  • Department profile: Keith Choe, Ph.D.
  • Website: The Choe Lab

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Martin Cohn
Martin Cohn
Professor – Joint Faculty

  • Office:
  • Phone:
  • Email: mjcohn@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Developmental biology and evolution
  • Website:
  • Biology profile: Martin J Cohn

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Derek Cummings
Derek Cummings
Professor

  • Office: 422 Carr Hall & 106 Emerging Pathogens Institute
  • Phone: (352) 273-6555
  • Email: datc@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Infectious Disease Dynamics, Disease Ecology, Population Biology
  • Website: Infectious Disease DYNAMICS

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E. Christine Davis
Pronouns: she/her
Instructional Professor, Associate Chair; Director, Biology Learning Assistants Program

  • Office: 620 Carr Hall
  • Email: christine.davis@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Inclusive and antiracist teaching practices, collaborative learning, plant diversity, evolution, and systematics; bryology; plant-fungal symbioses
  • Profile: E. Christine Davis
  • Website: Christine Davis

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Norman A. Douglas
Associate Instructional Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator

  • Office: 618A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-2842
  • Email: nadouglas@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant systematics & phylogeography, edaphic endemism, and conservation genetics
  • Website: Norman A. Douglas

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Bryndan Durham
Bryndan Durham
Assistant Professor

  • Office: Cancer & Genetics Research Complex | 404
  • Phone: (352) 294-6312
  • Email: b.durham@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Marine microbiology
  • Website: Durham Lab

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David Duffy
David Duffy
Assistant Professor

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Christopher Dutton

Assistant Professor

  • Office: 510 Carr Hall
  • Email: duttonc@ufl.edu
  • Interests: The role of microbiomes on environmental, animal, and human health. Open source technologies. Conservation. Ecosystem Ecology. Biogeochemistry. Bioinformatics.
  • Website: Christopher L Dutton

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Gareth Fraser
Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor

  • Office: 512 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4758
  • Email: g.fraser@ufl.edu
  • Interests: EvoDevo
  • Profile: Gareth Fraser
  • Website: Fraser Lab

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Stefanie K. Gazda
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Instructional Professor, Biology Online Major Coordinator

  • Office: 214A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0114
  • Email: stefanie.gazda@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Online student engagement, dolphin behavioral and foraging ecology, predator-prey spatial dynamics
  • Website: Stefanie Gazda

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Nicole Gerlach
Pronouns: she/her
Associate Instructional Professor, Coordinator of Introductory Biology

  • Office: 520 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2419
  • Email: ngerlach@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Behavioral ecology; mating behavior and sexual selection
  • Website: Nicole M. Gerlach

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Jamie Gillooly
Jamie Gillooly
Associate Professor

  • Office: 409 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2743
  • Email: gillooly@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Physiological ecology, community and ecosystem ecology, macroecology
  • Website: Gillooly Lab

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Matt Gitzendanner
Matt Gitzendanner
Pronouns: he/him
Museum Faculty
Scientist & Collection Manager

  • Office: 301 C Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1960
  • Email: magitz@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Population genetics
  • Website: Gitzendanner Lab

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Robert Guralnick
Robert Guralnick
Museum Faculty, Preeminent Scholar
Associate Curator of Biodiversity Informatics

  • Office: 358 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1980
  • Email: rguralnick@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Research Interests: Biodiversity focusing on spatiotemporal changes in genetic and species diversity
  • Website: The Guralnick Lab

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Bernard Hauser
Associate Professor

  • Office: 516A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-0009
  • Email: bahauser@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Reproductive biology
  • Profile: Bernard Hauser

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rdholt
Robert Holt
Eminent Scholar & Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology

  • Office: 111 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-6917
  • Email: rdholt@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Theoretical Ecology
  • Website: Robert D. Holt

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Research Assistant Scientist, Meiyan Jin
Meiyan Jin
Research Assistant Scientist

  • Office:
  • Phone:
  • Email: meiyan.jin@ufl.edu
  • Interests: autophagy, membrane trafficking, branched actin assembly, CRISPR genome-editing, cell imaging

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Grace John
Grace John
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 310A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6314
  • Email: gracejohn@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant physiology, functional anatomy, and ecology
  • Website: The John Lab

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Douglas Jones
Douglas Jones
Museum Faculty
Professor & Director

  • Office: 291 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1901
  • Email: dsjones@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Invertebrate paleontology
  • Website: Douglas Jones

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David Julian
Pronouns: he/his
Associate Professor

  • Office: 123 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-5878
  • Email: djulian@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Comparative and ecological physiology
  • Website: The Julian Lab
  • Profile: David Julian

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Akito Kawahara
Museum Faculty
Associate Curator

  • Office: McGuire Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-2018
  • Email: kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Phylogenomics, systematics, evolution and behavior of insects
  • Website: The Kawahara Lab
  • Profile: Akito Y. Kawahara | Home

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Nick Keiser
Nick Keiser
Pronouns: he/him/his
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 622A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4981
  • Email: ckeiser@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Behavioral Ecology, Disease Ecology
  • Website: Keiser Lab

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rkimball
Rebecca Kimball
Pronouns: she/her
Professor

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kowalewski
Michal Kowalewski
Museum Faculty
Professor and Curator

  • Office: Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1944
  • Email: kowalewski@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Paleoecology, taphonomy, geochronology, stratigraphy, quantitative methods, marine ecology, conservation biology, mollusks, brachiopods
  • Website: Michal Kowalewski | Home

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Mathew Leibold
Mathew Leibold
Pronouns: he/him
Professor

  • Office: 627 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-7544
  • Email: mleibold@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Community ecology, aquatic ecology
  • Website: LEIBOLD LAB

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James Liao
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology – UF Term Professor 2016-2019

  • Location: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
  • Phone: (904) 461-4011
  • Email: jliao@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Biomechanics and neurobiology of fish behavior
  • Website: www.liaolab.com
  • Whitney page: James C. Liao, Ph.D.

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Jeremy Lichstein
Professor

  • Office: 317 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-1540
  • Email: jlichstein@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Forest dynamics; biodiversity; carbon cycle; climate change
  • Website: Lichstein Lab

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Ana V. Longo
Ana V. Longo
Pronouns: she/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 412 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4982
  • Email: ana.longo@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Disease Ecology; Microbial Ecology; Amphibians
  • Website: The Longo Lab
  • CV: Ana Longo 2019

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Bruce MacFadden
Bruce MacFadden
Museum Faculty
Distinguished Professor & Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

  • Office: 218 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1937
  • Email: bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Vertebrate paleontology
  • Website: Bruce J. MacFadden | Home

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maden
Malcolm Maden
Professor

  • Office: 326 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-5856
  • Email: malcmaden@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Developmental and Regenerative Biology
  • Profile: Malcolm Maden
  • CV: Malcolm Maden 2019

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Lucas Majure
Lucas Majure
Assistant Curator of the Herbarium

  • Office: 378 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: 352-273-2102
  • Email: lmajure@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant Systematics, reticulate evolution, morphological evolution, biogeography, Flora of the Neotropics
  • Profile: The Majure Lab

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Steven Manchester
Steven Manchester
Museum Faculty
Curator of Paleobotany

  • Office: 214 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1935
  • Email: steven@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant paleontology
  • Link: Steven R. Manchester | Home

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Mark Martindale
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology – Director of the Whitney Laboratory

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Stuart McDaniel
Stuart McDaniel
Pronouns: he/him
Professor
  • Office: 213 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0123
  • Email: stuartmcdaniel@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary genetics
  • Website: McDaniel Lab

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Biology Department
Melissa Meadows
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Instructional Professor

  • Office: 522B Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6310
  • Email: melissa.meadows@ufl.edu
  • Interests:
  • Website:

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Stephen Mulkey
Stephen Mulkey
Assistant Instructional Professor

  • Office: 621 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6313
  • Email: smulkey@ufl.edu
  • Interests:
  • Webpage: Stephen Mulkey

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mutahi
Teresa Mutahi
Associate Instructional Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major

  • Office: 214B Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0115
  • Email: tmutahi@ufl.edu
  • Interests: With an expertise in biology, science and mathematics education, Dr. Mutahi is interested in research and initiatives geared towards biology/STEM curriculum development, diverse learners and active learning strategies in higher education institutions. Another area of interest is enhancing inclusion and success of underrepresented groups in STEM programs.
  • Program Website: UF Biology Major
  • Profile: Teresa Mutahi

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Gavin Naylor
Gavin Naylor
Director of Florida Program for Shark Research

  • Office: Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: 352-273-1954
  • Email: gnaylor@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Molecular phylogenetics, Biogeography, & Comparative anatomy of sharks and rays
  • Webpage: Sharks Rays

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David Oppenheimer
Pronouns: he/him/his
Associate Professor

  • Office: 115 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0121
  • Email: oppenhe@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Cell biology, genetics, and plant development
  • Website: The Oppenheimer Lab

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Larry Page
Museum Faculty
Curator of Fishes

  • Office: 282 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1952
  • Email: lpage@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Systematics, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes; protection of aquatic natural areas.
  • Link: Larry M. Page | Home

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palmer
Todd Palmer
Professor

  • Office: 411 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-6357
  • Email: tmp@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Mutualism, tropical ecology; community ecology; plant-animal interactions
  • Website: The Palmer Lab
  • CV: Todd Palmer 2024

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Gustav Paulay
Museum Faculty
Curator of Marine Malacology

  • Office: 278 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Phone: (352) 273-1948
  • Email: paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Invertebrate evolution & biogeography
  • Website: Gustav Paulay | Home

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josemi
José Miguel Ponciano
Professor

  • Office: 309 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2784
  • Email: josemi@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Stochastic processes in ecology, evolution and population genetics
  • Webpage: José Miguel Ponciano Castellanos

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fep
Francis E. (Jack) Putz
Distinguished Professor

  • Office: 209 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-1486
  • Email: fep@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Conservation Biology, Tropical Forestry, Fire Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Economic Botany, Natural Resource Economics, Plant Ecology, Botany, Plant Biomechanics
  • Webpage: Francis E. (Jack) Putz
  • CV: Francis (Jack) Putz 2022

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David Reed
David Reed
Museum Faculty
Curator of Mammals, Associate Director of Research & Collections, Associate Provost for External Faculty Honors and Awards

  • Office: 350 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1971
  • Email: dreed@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Mammalogy; Host-parasite coevolution
  • Website: David L. Reed | Home

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skrobins
Scott Robinson
Museum Faculty
Eminent Scholar & Katharine Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation

  • Office: 305 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1965
  • Email: srobinson@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Conservation biology; Avian ecology
  • Website: Scott K. Robinson | Home

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jfryan
Joseph Ryan
Pronouns: he/him/his
Whitney Faculty
Associate Professor of Biology

  • Location: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
  • Phone: (904) 461-4046
  • Email: jfryan@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary Genomics using experimental biology and bioinformatic techniques to address questions at the intersection of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and ecology
  • Whitney page: Joseph F. Ryan, Ph.D.

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Christine E. Schnitzler
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Whitney Faculty
Associate Professor of Biology

  • Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience · St. Augustine, FL
  • Phone: (904) 461-4050
  • Email: christine.schnitzler@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary, comparative, and functional genomics; stem cells and regeneration
  • Whitney page: Christine E. Schnitzler, Ph.D.

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Elaine Seaver
Elaine Seaver
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology

  • Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience Room 27
  • Phone: (904) 461-4030
  • Email: seaver@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolution and development of marine invertebrates
  • Whitney page: Elaine C. Seaver, Ph.D.

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Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis
Professor

  • Office: 617 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-9647
  • Email: bsmocovi@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary theory, systematics, and history
  • Website: Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

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dsoltis
Doug Soltis
Pronouns: he/him
Museum Faculty
Distinguished Professor

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Pam Soltis
Museum Faculty
Distinguished Professor & Curator

  • Office: 301 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1964
  • Email: psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Polyploidy and plant phylogenetics
  • Webpage: Pamela S. Soltis | Home

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David Steadman
Museum Faculty
Curator of Ornithology

  • Office: 320 Dickinson Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-1968 or (352) 273-1969
  • Email: dws@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Avian ecology and paleoecology
  • Website: Dr. David W. Steadman

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James Strother
James Strother
Pronouns: he/him/his
Whitney Faculty
Assistant Professor

  • Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
  • Phone: (904) 201-8410
  • Email: james.strother@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Neuroscience, Physiology, Biomechanics, Fishes
  • Website: The Strother Lab
  • Whitney Page: Strother Lab

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Amanda Subalusky
Amanda Subalusky
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 518A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6311
  • Email: asubalusky@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Community and ecosystem ecology; animal effects on ecosystems; aquatic ecology
  • Website: The Subalusky Lab

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Hannah Vander Zanden
Hannah Vander Zanden
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 420 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-0438
  • Email: hvz@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Animal ecology, stable isotope ecology
  • Website: Vander Zanden Lab

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Marta Wayne
Marta Wayne
Pronouns: she/her
Professor

  • Office: 427 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-9925
  • Email: mlwayne@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Host-parasite coevolution; evolutionary genetics and genomics
  • Profile: Marta L. Wayne
  • Website: Under construction – coming soon

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Hua Yan
Hua Yan
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 511A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4983
  • Email: hua.yan@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Social behavior, neural development, chemosensory system, aging
  • Profile: Hua Yan
  • Website: Yan Lab

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Zepeng Yao
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 521 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-1098
  • Email: zepengyao@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Neural circuits; Chemosensation and interoception; Brain-body interactions; Feeding regulation and energy homeostasis.
  • Website: Yao Lab

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Juannan Zhou
Assistant Professor

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