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Biology Faculty Aid Efforts to Fight Covid-19
March 24, 2020
Biology professor Ana Longo discussed One Health and research on the corona virus in a column for the Puerto Rican publication ENDI ElNuevoDia.com. Biology professors José Miguel Ponciano and Ana Longo co-authored an article for PlazaPublica on the corona virus… Read More
BIOLOGY GRAD STUDENTS RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS POST-DOCTORAL AWARDS
March 20, 2020
Three Biology graduate students, Andre Naranjo (P. Soltis Lab), Jenna Moore (Paulay Lab) and Pat Milligan (Palmer Lab) have been awarded National Science Foundation grants to support their post-doctoral research. Andre Naranjo received his award from the NSF Interdisciplinary Research… Read More
BIOLOGY GRAD STUDENT PAPER HIGHLIGHTED BY JOURNAL EDITOR
March 16, 2020
A paper authored by Biology Department PhD student John Park and coauthored by two UF faculty (Jeremy Lichstein, Biology; Stephanie Bohlman, School of Forest Resources and Conservation) was selected as an “Editor’s Choice” by the journal Remote Sensing. The study… Read More
NEW RESEARCH FROM ACCSTR EXPLAINS SEA TURTLE FONDNESS FOR PLASTICS
Biology courtesy faculty member and former graduate student Dr. Joseph Pfaller from the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research has published new evidence that sea turtles are attracted to plastics by their smell. Prior to this study it was… Read More
Ponciano Lab Publishes Study on Anthrax
February 28, 2020
An important advance in understanding the population dynamics of infectious disease was published by Biology Associate Professor José Miguel Ponciano in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using field collected data from Namibia on plains zebra and coalescence… Read More