Biology – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biology Grad Student Receives MBE Award

Ayush Saxena, recent Ph.D. from the Baer Lab, has been awarded the “Best student paper of 2019” by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. The paper entitled “Evolution of the mutational process under relaxed selection in Caenorhabditis elegans” appeared in… Read More

Newsletter SymBIOsis 2020!

UF Biology Spring/Summer 2020 Newsletter is live! Click here to view it now!

Congratulations to this year’s student recipients of the MFT, Thesis, and Biology scholarships!

Spring 2020 MFT Award winners: 1st place: Matei Caeleap 2nd runner up: David Adelhelm 3rd runner ups: Kayli Sieber & Dawson Houghtaling Winners by Topic category: Cell Biology: Matei Caeleap Molecular Biology & Genetics: Matei Caeleap & Sarah Nestler Organismal… Read More

BIOLOGY PROFESSOR WINS HYNES AWARD

Biology assistant professor Amanda Subalusky won the 2020 Hynes Award for New Investigators from the Society for Freshwater Science. The Hynes Award recognizes the freshwater scientist who was senior author of an outstanding primary publication that appeared in print in… Read More

Biology Professor Coauthors Two Papers in Science on Forest Dynamics

Associate Professor Jeremy Lichstein coauthored two recent papers on forest dynamics in the journal Science. The first paper, titled “Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics,” used data from a tropical forest in Panama and a computer simulation model to show… Read More

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

Biology Grad Student Receives MBE Award

Newsletter SymBIOsis 2020!

Congratulations to this year’s student recipients of the MFT, Thesis, and Biology scholarships!

BIOLOGY PROFESSOR WINS HYNES AWARD

Biology Professor Coauthors Two Papers in Science on Forest Dynamics

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

Recent News

Biology Grad Student Receives MBE Award

Newsletter SymBIOsis 2020!

Congratulations to this year’s student recipients of the MFT, Thesis, and Biology scholarships!

BIOLOGY PROFESSOR WINS HYNES AWARD

Biology Professor Coauthors Two Papers in Science on Forest Dynamics

Upcoming Events

Resources

Campus

Website

Featured Posts

Recent News

Upcoming Events