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Congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners!

The department extends its warmest congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners. A huge thanks goes to our faculty advisors, Karen Bjorndal and Jamie Gillooly, for their guidance in reviewing and ranking applications, as well as Marta Wayne… Read More

BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ROBERT JOHNSON WINS AWARD

Robert Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Karen Bjorndal’s Lab., received the Archie Carr Best Student Paper Award at the 39th International Sea Turtle Symposium for his paper “Green turtle grazing causes a consistent response in seagrass ecosystem metabolic carbon capture… Read More

Biology Professor receives prestigious fellowship

Biology Eminent Scholar and Professor Robert Holt has been awarded the Batsheva de Rothchild Fellowship from the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.  He will visit Ben-Gurion University, Hebrew University and Tel-Aviv University to initiate new research collaborations with Israeli… Read More

Biology undergrad wins top honors!

Aaron Sandoval, an undergraduate research student in Malcolm Maden’s Lab, won first prize in the Life Science competition at the National Collegiate Research Conference.  His poster described his research on skin regeneration in spiny mice.  Over 200 undergraduate students from… Read More

BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT KELSEY LEWIS WINS AWARD

Kelsey Lewis, a Ph.D. student in Martin Cohn’s lab, won the Best Student Paper Aubrey Gorman Award at the 2019 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in Tampa, FL.  The award is from the SICB Division of Comparative… Read More

BIOLOGY PROFESSOR EMILY SESSA RECEIVES CAREER GRANT

Biology Assistant Professor Emily Sessa will be receiving a highly competitive CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on African ferns.  The continent of Africa contains fewer fern species in general than regions in the Neotropics or… Read More

Graduate Student Kelsey Lewis wins 3MT Competition

Kelsey Lewis is the People’s Choice winner of the UF Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.  3MT is a research communication competition sponsored by the Graduate School that challenges graduate students to make a compelling presentation on their thesis topic and… Read More

PALMER LAB PUBLISHES GLOBAL STUDY ON HERBIVORE-PLANT INTERACTIONS

 The Palmer lab is part of a global study to examine the effects of herbivores on plant biodiversity.  The study, published recently in Nature Ecology and Evolution (2:1925-1932), was written up in Futurity.  This international team of plant and animal… Read More

Climate change research featured

Tao Zhang, a Post-Doc in Jeremy Lichstein’s lab, was featured in The Wire for his research on the response of forests to climate change.  For more information see: https://thewire.in/environment/climate-change-is-reducing-the-ability-of-forests-to-store-carbon  Link to the original article in the April 5, 2018 issue… Read More

Great Science Explained at Fish Code Studios

Biology Associate Professor Jimmy Liao explains the science behind sport fishing in his videos from Fish Code Studios.  See the latest addition at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=N4aZ2UYDWKM&t=28s  Watch how fish respond to lures; why they are found behind rocks in a stream; and… Read More

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.

Biology Professor Vander Zanden Receives Prestigious Award

Biology assistant professor Hannah Vander Zanden has been named an Early-Career Research Fellow by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences.  The award recognizes emerging scientific leaders who share an interest in improving the well-being of coastal… Read More

Recent Biology Ph.D. receives career award

 Dr. Clare Rittschof (Ph.D. 2011, supervised by Jane Brockmann) received the Outstanding New Investigator award from the Animal Behavior Society.  This award recognizes an outstanding contribution in animal behavior by a new investigator.  Clare is an assistant professor at the… Read More

Biology Grad Students Win Awards at National Meetings

Ryan St. Laurent (advised by Akito Kawahara) won the prestigious Harry K. Clench Award for the best student paper given at the joint meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society and the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica in Ottawa Canada.  Mark Sandfoss (advised by… Read More

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Recent News

  • Congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners!

    February 12, 2019

    The department extends its warmest congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners. A huge thanks goes to our faculty advisors, Karen Bjorndal and Jamie Gillooly, for their guidance in reviewing and ranking applications, as well as Marta Wayne… Read More

  • BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ROBERT JOHNSON WINS AWARD

    Robert Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Karen Bjorndal’s Lab., received the Archie Carr Best Student Paper Award at the 39th International Sea Turtle Symposium for his paper “Green turtle grazing causes a consistent response in seagrass ecosystem metabolic carbon capture… Read More

  • Biology Professor receives prestigious fellowship

    February 6, 2019

    Biology Eminent Scholar and Professor Robert Holt has been awarded the Batsheva de Rothchild Fellowship from the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.  He will visit Ben-Gurion University, Hebrew University and Tel-Aviv University to initiate new research collaborations with Israeli… Read More

  • Biology undergrad wins top honors!

    February 1, 2019

    Aaron Sandoval, an undergraduate research student in Malcolm Maden’s Lab, won first prize in the Life Science competition at the National Collegiate Research Conference.  His poster described his research on skin regeneration in spiny mice.  Over 200 undergraduate students from… Read More

  • BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT KELSEY LEWIS WINS AWARD

    January 9, 2019

    Kelsey Lewis, a Ph.D. student in Martin Cohn’s lab, won the Best Student Paper Aubrey Gorman Award at the 2019 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in Tampa, FL.  The award is from the SICB Division of Comparative… Read More

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    Mock Lecture

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  2. Feb 21

    Exit Seminar: Natasha Vitek, “Patterns and drivers of within-species evolution in the Paleocene-Eocene fossil record of Erinaceomorpha (hedgehog-relatives)”

    February 21 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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    Mock Lecture

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    Thomas Givnish, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of BotanyTitle:”TBA”

    March 14 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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    Joel Brown, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Moffitt Cancer Institute,Title:”TBA”

    March 19 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
  6. Mar 21

    Exit Seminar: Robert Johnson, “Effects of green turtle grazing on carbon dynamics in Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadows.”

    March 21 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
  7. Mar 26

    Dale DeNardo, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, “Water, the other physiological currency: insight from squamate reptiles”

    March 26 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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