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.

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

Davis wins CLAS Teacher of the Year award

Biology’s outstanding teacher scholars were recognized by three nominations for the CLAS Teacher of the Year competition. Drs. Brad Barbazuk, Keith Choe, and Christine Davis were all nominated, which in itself is a singular honor. Among this stiff competition (which also… Read More

Recent Graduate Student Receives David and Marvalee Wake Award

Dan Paluh recently won the David and Marvalee Wake Award for Best Student Talk in the Division of Phylogenetic and Comparative Biology at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, which took place January 3 to… Read More

Jimmy Liao publishes on a new hydrodynamic principle in PNAS

Dr. James Liao, Associate Professor of Biology and UF Term Professor, has published an important new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In collaboration with past post-doctoral students, colleagues and undergraduates in the REU program at… Read More

David Oppenheimer’s Award Winning Video

Dr. David Oppenheimer’s video on protein movement has won a national BioArt Award from FASEB, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Dr. Oppenheimer’s video shows how, although protein structures are often shown as static images, in real life… Read More

The Department of Biology

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

Davis wins CLAS Teacher of the Year award

Recent Graduate Student Receives David and Marvalee Wake Award

Jimmy Liao publishes on a new hydrodynamic principle in PNAS

David Oppenheimer’s Award Winning Video

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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

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