University of Florida Homepage (opens in new tab)

Biology

Faculty

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

To update you profile information for this page please use the Faculty Update Form by CLICKING HERE.

A

Zhanar Abil
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑

B

Charles holding a pike caught in Toronto
Charles Baer
Professor

Top of page ↑

Xiaofei Bai
Pronouns: he/him/his
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 438 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
  • Phone: 352-294-8447
  • Lab: 435 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
  • Lab Phone: 352-294-5735
  • Email: baixiaofei@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Genetics, Precision Disease Modeling, CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing, Developmental and Cell Biology, Mechanobiology, Lipid Biology, and Live-Cell Imaging
  • Profile: Xiaofei Bai (opens in new tab)
  • Website: The Bai Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

William (Brad) Barbazuk
William (Brad) Barbazuk
Professor & Department Chair

Top of page ↑

bjorndal
Karen Bjorndal
Pronouns: she/her
Distinguished Professor

Top of page ↑

ebraun
Edward Braun
Professor

Top of page ↑

gburleigh
John (Gordon) Burleigh
Associate Professor

  • Office: 218 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2776
  • Email: gburleigh@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Computational phylogenetics

Top of page ↑

C

LimingCai
Liming Cai

Pronouns: she/her

  • Office: Office: 311A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: TBD
  • Email: cail@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Interests: Plant systematics, evolutionary genomics, species interaction
  • Website: Website

Top of page ↑

kchoe
Keith Choe
Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor

Top of page ↑

Martin Cohn
Martin Cohn
Professor – Joint Faculty

  • Office:
  • Phone:
  • Email: mjcohn@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Developmental biology and evolution
  • Website:
  • Biology profile: Martin J Cohn

Top of page ↑

D

christine.davis
E. Christine Davis
Pronouns: she/her
Instructional Professor, Director, Biology Learning Assistants Program

Top of page ↑

douglas
Norman A. Douglas
Associate Instructional Professor

  • Office: 618A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-2842
  • Email: nadouglas@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant systematics & phylogeography, edaphic endemism, and conservation genetics
  • Website: Norman A. Douglas (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Bryndan Durham
Bryndan Durham
Assistant Professor

  • Office: Cancer & Genetics Research Complex | 404
  • Phone: (352) 294-6312
  • Email: b.durham@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Marine microbiology
  • Website: Durham Lab

Top of page ↑

David Duffy
David Duffy
Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑

Christopher Dutton

Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑

E

F

Gareth Fraser
Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor

Top of page ↑

G

Stefanie Gazda thumbnail
Stefanie K. Gazda
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Instructional Professor, Biology Online Major Coordinator

  • Office: 214A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0114
  • Email: stefanie.gazda@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Online student engagement, dolphin behavioral and foraging ecology, predator-prey spatial dynamics
  • Website: Stefanie Gazda (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

ngerlach
Nicole Gerlach
Pronouns: she/her
Associate Instructional Professor, Coordinator of Introductory Biology

  • Office: 520 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2419
  • Email: ngerlach@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Behavioral ecology; mating behavior and sexual selection
  • Website: Nicole M. Gerlach (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Jamie Gillooly
Jamie Gillooly
Associate Professor

  • Office: 409 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-2743
  • Email: gillooly@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Physiological ecology, community and ecosystem ecology, macroecology
  • Website: Gillooly Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

H

bernard
Bernard Hauser
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator

Top of page ↑

rdholt
Robert Holt
Eminent Scholar & Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology

Top of page ↑

I

J

Research Assistant Scientist, Meiyan Jin
Meiyan Jin
Research Assistant Scientist

  • Office:
  • Phone:
  • Email: meiyan.jin@ufl.edu
  • Interests: autophagy, membrane trafficking, branched actin assembly, CRISPR genome-editing, cell imaging

Top of page ↑

Grace John
Grace John
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 310A Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6314
  • Email: gracejohn@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Plant physiology, functional anatomy, and ecology
  • Website: The John Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

david
David Julian
Pronouns: he/his
Associate Professor

Top of page ↑

K

Nick Keiser
Nick Keiser
Pronouns: he/him/his
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 622A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4981
  • Email: ckeiser@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Behavioral Ecology, Disease Ecology
  • Website: Keiser Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

rkimball
Rebecca Kimball
Pronouns: she/her
Professor

Top of page ↑

L

Mathew Leibold
Mathew Leibold
Pronouns: he/him
Professor

  • Office: 627 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-7544
  • Email: mleibold@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Community ecology, aquatic ecology
  • Website: LEIBOLD LAB

Top of page ↑

jliao
James Liao
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology – UF Term Professor 2016-2019

Top of page ↑

Jeremy Lichstein
Professor

  • Office: 317 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-1540
  • Email: jlichstein@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Forest dynamics; biodiversity; carbon cycle; climate change
  • Website: Lichstein Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Ana V. Longo
Ana V. Longo
Pronouns: she/hers
Associate Professor

Top of page ↑

M

maden
Malcolm Maden
Professor

  • Office: 326 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-5856
  • Email: malcmaden@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Developmental and Regenerative Biology
  • Profile: Malcolm Maden
  • CV: Malcolm Maden 2019

Top of page ↑

mqmartin
Mark Martindale
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology – Director of the Whitney Laboratory

Top of page ↑

kmcculloch
Kyle J McCulloch
Assistant Professor

  • Location: Carr 422
  • Phone: TBD
  • Email: k.mcculloch1@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Animal light sensing systems, sensory systems, evolutionary development, neurophysiology, animal behavior

Top of page ↑

Stuart McDaniel
Stuart McDaniel
Pronouns: he/him
Professor

Top of page ↑

Biology Department
Melissa Meadows
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Instructional Professor

  • Office: 522B Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6310
  • Email: melissa.meadows@ufl.edu
  • Interests:
  • Website:

Top of page ↑

Stephen Mulkey
Stephen Mulkey
Assistant Instructional Professor

Top of page ↑

mutahi
Teresa Mutahi
Associate Instructional Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major

  • Office: 214B Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-0115
  • Email: tmutahi@ufl.edu
  • Interests: With an expertise in biology, science and mathematics education, Dr. Mutahi is interested in research and initiatives geared towards biology/STEM curriculum development, diverse learners and active learning strategies in higher education institutions. Another area of interest is enhancing inclusion and success of underrepresented groups in STEM programs.
  • Program Website: UF Biology Major (opens in new tab)
  • Profile: Teresa Mutahi (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

N

Gavin Naylor
Gavin Naylor
Director of Florida Program for Shark Research

Top of page ↑

O

oppenhe
David Oppenheimer
Pronouns: he/him/his
Associate Professor

Top of page ↑

P

palmer
Todd Palmer
Professor

Top of page ↑

josemi
José Miguel Ponciano
Associate Chair, Professor

Top of page ↑

fep
Francis E. (Jack) Putz
Distinguished Professor

Top of page ↑

Q

R

jfryan
Joseph Ryan
Pronouns: he/him/his
Whitney Faculty
Associate Professor of Biology

  • Location: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
  • Phone: (904) 461-4046
  • Email: jfryan@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary Genomics using experimental biology and bioinformatic techniques to address questions at the intersection of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and ecology
  • Whitney page: Joseph F. Ryan, Ph.D. (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

S

cs
Christine E. Schnitzler
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Whitney Faculty
Associate Professor of Biology

  • Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience · St. Augustine, FL
  • Phone: (904) 461-4050
  • Email: christine.schnitzler@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolutionary, comparative, and functional genomics; stem cells and regeneration
  • Whitney page: Christine E. Schnitzler, Ph.D. (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Elaine Seaver
Elaine Seaver
Whitney Faculty
Professor of Biology

  • Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience Room 27
  • Phone: (904) 461-4030
  • Email: seaver@whitney.ufl.edu
  • Interests: Evolution and development of marine invertebrates
  • Whitney page: Elaine C. Seaver, Ph.D. (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

bsmocoviti
Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis
Professor

Top of page ↑

dsoltis
Doug Soltis
Pronouns: he/him
Museum Faculty
Distinguished Professor

Top of page ↑

psoltis
Pam Soltis
Museum Faculty
Distinguished Professor & Curator

Top of page ↑

James Strother
James Strother
Pronouns: he/him/his
Whitney Faculty
Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑

Amanda Subalusky
Amanda Subalusky
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 518A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 294-6311
  • Email: asubalusky@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Community and ecosystem ecology; animal effects on ecosystems; aquatic ecology
  • Website: The Subalusky Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

T

Scott Taylor
Pronouns: he/him/his
Instructional Assistant Professor

  • Office: 417 Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 846-3949
  • Email: sm.taylor@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Neurobiology, genetics, physiology, developmental biology, immunology, virology; understanding the mechanisms that govern neurogenesis, neuronal regeneration, and neuroinflammation in the brain and retina

Top of page ↑

U

V

Hannah Vander Zanden
Hannah Vander Zanden
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑

W

Marta Wayne
Marta Wayne
Pronouns: she/her
Professor

  • Office: 427 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-9925
  • Email: mlwayne@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Host-parasite coevolution; evolutionary genetics and genomics
  • Profile: Marta L. Wayne
  • Website: Under construction – coming soon

Top of page ↑

X

Y

Hua Yan
Hua Yan
Associate Professor

  • Office: 511A Carr Hall
  • Phone: (352) 273-4983
  • Email: hua.yan@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Social behavior, neural development, chemosensory system, aging
  • Profile: Hua Yan
  • Website: Yan Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Zepeng Yao
Assistant Professor

  • Office: 521 Bartram Hall
  • Phone: (352) 392-1098
  • Email: zepengyao@ufl.edu
  • Interests: Neural circuits; Chemosensation and interoception; Brain-body interactions; Feeding regulation and energy homeostasis.
  • Website: Yao Lab (opens in new tab)

Top of page ↑

Z

Juannan Zhou
Assistant Professor

Top of page ↑