Biology Grad Student Receives Botanical Society Award

Biology graduate student Annika Smith (Ph.D. student in the Soltis Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics) has received the 2020 Kaplan Award from the Botanical Society of America. The Donald R. Kaplan Award supports graduate student research in plant… Read More

Biology Professor Receives Diversity Champion Award

Biology Assistant Professor Joe Ryan has been awarded the UF 2020 Graduate Education Diversity Champion Award. This award recognizes a faculty or staff member who has enhanced the graduate environment by promoting diversity and improving cross-cultural understanding and inclusivity. This… Read More

Biology Lecturer is UF Adviser of the Year!

Teresa Mutahi, Biology Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Biology Major, is the 2019-2020 University of Florida Adviser of the Year. This award is UF’s highest recognition for undergraduate advising. It is based on excellence in innovation, professional engagement and… Read More

Biology Grad Student Receives Prestigious Post-doc Award

Biology graduate student Leslie Kollar (McDaniel Lab) has been awarded a National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will be working in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University to study the function and evolution… Read More

Biology Faculty Aid Efforts to Fight Covid-19

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

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

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

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

Schnitzler and colleagues publish paper in Science demonstrating ancient, shared origin of germ cells between Cnidarians and humans.

Germ cells are the cells that create reproductive cells known as gametes (eggs and sperm) in animals. Somatic cells are all the cells not involved in reproduction, such as muscle cells, skin cells, or blood cells. In many animals, including… Read More

Biology Undergraduate Coordinator is CLAS Faculty Adviser of the Year

Teresa Mutahi, Biology Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major, has received the 2019-2020 Faculty Adviser of the Year award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This award recognizes excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in undergraduate advising.… Read More

International Awards in Biology

Each year the International Center and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognize the accomplishments of international students and faculty at the University of Florida. This year members of Biology received many of these special awards. Tom Hladish, Ph.D.… Read More

Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval!

Multiple award-winning Biology undergraduate Aaron Sandoval (CLAS scholarship, Goldwater scholarship) has now won a Marshall scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge for one year and King’s College London for a second year. This is only the second Marshall scholarship awarded to… Read More

Emily Sessa receives new grant from NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $1.2 million to Emily Sessa, who will lead a collaborative, multi-institution team in a study of the “fern spore spike”, a phenomenon in the fossil record in which fern spores are disproportionately highly… Read More

Biology Grad Student Receives Botanical Society Award

Biology Professor Receives Diversity Champion Award

Biology Lecturer is UF Adviser of the Year!

Biology Grad Student Receives Prestigious Post-doc Award

Biology Faculty Aid Efforts to Fight Covid-19

BIOLOGY GRAD STUDENTS RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS POST-DOCTORAL AWARDS

BIOLOGY GRAD STUDENT PAPER HIGHLIGHTED BY JOURNAL EDITOR

NEW RESEARCH FROM ACCSTR EXPLAINS SEA TURTLE FONDNESS FOR PLASTICS

Ponciano Lab Publishes Study on Anthrax

Schnitzler and colleagues publish paper in Science demonstrating ancient, shared origin of germ cells between Cnidarians and humans.

Biology Undergraduate Coordinator is CLAS Faculty Adviser of the Year

International Awards in Biology

Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval!

Emily Sessa receives new grant from NASA

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Biology Grad Student Receives Botanical Society Award

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