New Phi Beta Kappa inductees
Eleven CLAS Biology majors and one Zoology major were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society. These students have exceptional GPAs (3.75 for graduation candidates; 3.90 for […]
Art of Biology
Eleven UF Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History graduate students will be participating in an art installation at the Hippodrome Theater titled “Art of Biology”. The formal gallery opening is on Friday, November 13th from 6-8pm and the photos […]
Mike Gil leads international study on coral reef degradation in high-tourism area of Mexico
Mike Gil, recent Ph.D. graduate in Biology, along with American and Mexican collaborators, just published a new study in this month’s issue of the journal Marine Biology. The team’s work […]
Pedagogy and International Education
Zoology Ph.D. alumna Dr. Catalina Pimiento has published an article in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach about her pedagogical innovations to promote international science literacy in a blended learning class taught […]
UF Faculty Working on the Tree of Life
UF scientists Doug Soltis, Brian Drew, Ruchi Chaudhary, and Gordon Burleigh contributed to a multi-institutional effort to construct a tree of life describing the relationships among ~2.3 million species. The […]
UF Biology faculty, David Oppenheimer, coauthored Getting In: The Insider’s Guide to Finding the Perfect Undergraduate Research Experience with UF research scientist, Paris Grey.
Getting In was written for undergraduates in STEM who are considering undergraduate research as part of their curriculum. Getting In was written to help students start their search by first […]
Alabama hunters are killing huge gators off the Gulf Coast. Is that a good thing?
UF alligator biologist and lab coordinator for the Department of Biology Dr. Kent Vliet discusses the drawbacks of hunting large gators. Read the article in the Washington Post here.
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UF Biology faculty receive NSF grant to study moss-microbial symbiosis
UF Biology faculty Stuart McDaniel and José Miguel Ponciano (with scientists from Northern Arizona University and University of Colorado) were awarded an NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant to study the […]
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Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape
Does shark predation change sea turtle movements? Surprisingly, no! This paper is co-authored by Mike Frick, Teaching Lab Specialist, Department of Biology, UF.
Empty Bench Syndrome
Paris Grey’s article, Empty Bench Syndrome, beautifully captures the bittersweet nature of academia in that our goal as educators is to make our students leave us. Her article made the […]
Are humans causing a sixth mass extinction?
UF Biologist Todd Palmer says yes, but it’s not too late to reverse the trend… yet. The paper “Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction” appears in Science Magazine. […]
Congratulations to the winning team! Assistant Professor Emily Sessa and co-PIs awarded NSF Grant.
Dr. Emily Sessa and co-PI’s Dr. Gordon Burleigh, Dr. Stuart McDaniel, and Dr. Christine Davis have received notice that a proposal titled “Collaborative Research: Building a Comprehensive Evolutionary History of Flagellate […]
Associate Professor Sixue Chen named Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor
Recognition goes to Associate Professor Dr. Sixue Chen who his being named a Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor! Dr. Chen, has also received a CLAS term […]
Jack Ewel, Emeritus Faculty, elected as Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation
Joining the ranks of Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, et al., Jack Ewel has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of ATBC! This is the highest honor conveyed by the […]
Creating Scientific Knowledge
In this invited “Soapbox Essay“, Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt explains how we arrive at explanations for scientific phenomenon using climate change as an example. He uses a metaphor of […]
Systematic Reviews of Forestry & Landscapes Management Workshop
Biology’s Jack Putz and Claudia Romero organized a Systematic Reviews of Forestry & Landscapes Management Workshop in collaboration with the Florida Climate Institute and the REDD+ Forest Policy & Economics […]
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Congratulations to Jake Ferguson and José Miguel Ponciano!
Grad student Jake Ferguson and Biology faculty member José Miguel Ponciano recently had an article appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/112/9/2782.abstract “Environmental stochasticity” is an important […]
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Congratulations to Charles Baer on recent paper “Scaling, Selection, and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mitotic Spindle”
Mitosis, the precise division of the nucleus, is required for multicellular life. Unsurprisingly then, mitosis has remained essentially the same over approximately two billion years of evolution. However, the individual […]