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

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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

Biology Ph.D. Rebecca Stubbs wins Early Career Award

The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) selected recent Biology Ph.D. Rebecca Stubbs (Ph.D. 2018 co-advised by Nico Cellinese and Doug Soltis) as the 2018 recipient of the George R. Cooley Award, considered one of the most prestigious early-career honors… Read More

Biology Professor to Head SMBE

Professor and Chair Marta Wayne is the new president-elect of the Society for the Study of Molecular Biology and Evolution. The SMBE is an international organization that promotes research and collaboration by molecular evolutionists. Congratulations Marta!

New research grant in Emily Sessa’s Lab

Assistant Professor Emily Sessa has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation grant to support her research on ferns, Understanding the effects of ploidal level on responses to global change in plants. This research will examine how genome duplication (polyploidy)… Read More

Nature paper from the Burleigh Lab

Jay McEntee, a post-doctoral fellow in Gordon Burleigh’s lab, published an important new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The paper, “Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation,” examines the relationship between the rate of evolutionary change… Read More

Biology Professor Smocovitis receives Mellon Grant

Biology Professor Betty Smocovitis is leading one of the four interdisciplinary groups that will conduct Research into Teaching sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and organized by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. The group… Read More

Symbiosis Spring/Summer 2018 issue is online

We hope you enjoy the first digital issue of SYMBIOSIS, the Biology newsletter for Spring/Summer 2018. We’ve had a busy spring semester in the Department of Biology! As most of you know, UF achieved Top 10 status among public research… Read More

Keon Wimberly awarded a Porter Fellowship

Keon Wimberly, a graduate student in Keith Choe’s lab, has been awarded a Porter Physiology Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the American Physiological Society. This national fellowship program awards only eight fellowships annually for study leading to a Ph.D. in physiological sciences… Read More

UF student earns Goldwater Scholarship

Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval, a biology major student who has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Mr. Aaron Sandoval, a member of the UF Honors program has been conducting research at the Cancer and Genetics Institute… Read More

Dean’s Interdisciplinary Speaker Series 2018

“Paradise in the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities” PROFESSOR WILLIAM MARTIN Evolutionary Biologist and Professor at the Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Talk and Panel Discussion “Life out of Paradise: Where Did We Ultimately Come From,… Read More

Biology Postdoc publishes Nature paper on forest response to climate change

Biology Postdoc Tao Zhang and Assistant Professor Jeremy Lichstein published a major paper in Nature on the response of forests to climate change. They examine changes in forest biomass using systematic forest inventories from the 1980s and 2000s across the… Read More

Akito Kawahara next to the butterfly tree

Akito Kawahara Publishes A New Evolutionary Tree of Butterflies

Associate Professor of Biology and Curator Akito Kawahara and his colleagues have published the first comprehensive evolutionary tree of butterflies. The team analyzed 352 genetic markers from 207 butterfly species representing all butterfly families and subfamilies and 98 percent of… Read More

Recent Biology Ph.D. receives career award

The Department of Biology

Biology Grad Students Win Awards at National Meetings

Biology Ph.D. Rebecca Stubbs wins Early Career Award

Biology Professor to Head SMBE

New research grant in Emily Sessa’s Lab

Nature paper from the Burleigh Lab

Biology Professor Smocovitis receives Mellon Grant

Symbiosis Spring/Summer 2018 issue is online

Keon Wimberly awarded a Porter Fellowship

UF student earns Goldwater Scholarship

Dean’s Interdisciplinary Speaker Series 2018

Biology Postdoc publishes Nature paper on forest response to climate change

Akito Kawahara Publishes A New Evolutionary Tree of Butterflies

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Recent Biology Ph.D. receives career award

Biology Grad Students Win Awards at National Meetings

Biology Ph.D. Rebecca Stubbs wins Early Career Award

Biology Professor to Head SMBE

New research grant in Emily Sessa’s Lab

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