Recent News
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
BIOLOGY PROFESSOR EMILY SESSA RECEIVES CAREER GRANT
December 18, 2018
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
December 3, 2018
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
November 27, 2018
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
October 25, 2018
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