UF Biology researchers, Postdoctoral Associate J. Aaron Hogan and Professor Jeremy Lichstein, published a new study on the response of US forests to climate change in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Department of Biology had a bumper quarter for research output at the end of 2023. Congratulations to all contributors! Click for a list of the research articles published October […]
The Department of Biology’s Stefanie Gazda and Brenda Such (from COIP) published an article on course design for BSC2010/2010L and BSC2011/2011L. These courses were redesigned three times over three years, […]
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Professor Todd Palmer from the Department of Biology, contributed to a new paper out today in Science Magazine. “Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally.”
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Graduate student Manasee Weerathunga, in the Burleigh Lab, wrote an article for the “where I work” careers section in Nature.
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A new manuscript by Biology Graduate Student Steven Byrum (from the Gareth Fraser and Gavin Naylor Labs) has won a Research Promotion Initiative Award, offered by UF Strategic Communications & Marketing.
We are pleased to announce that Biology Faculty member Dr. Gareth Fraser has been granted promotion and tenure by the University of Florida Board of Trustees to Associate Professor of Biology.
Researchers just discovered that the spiny mouse was concealing bony plates beneath the skin over its tail. www.nytimes.com A new study shows that bony plates (Osteoderms) commonly found in the […]
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Title: Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA The paper outlines the relative ease of collecting human DNA nearly everywhere they […]
Dr. Hua Yan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, was awarded a National Institutes of Health R01 grant to study neural development and plasticity that are essential for […]
Biology Post-Doc Alexandra Gulick was recently highlighted in the CLAS Publication of Ytori for December. Below is a link to the article: Rebounding Green Sea Turtle Populations Reshape Coastal Ecosystems
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Dr. Greg Jongsma, a recent UF Biology PhD graduate, has been working with a team of Gabonese and American scientists to launch the Gabon Biodiversity Portal, a public online database […]
Veronica Selden, an undergraduate researcher who graduated in May 2022, and her advisor Dr. Jack Putz, published a study suggesting that southeastern pocket gophers are the first non-human mammalian farmers. […]
We are pleased to announce that Whitney Faculty Dr. Christine Schnitzler was granted promotion and tenure by the University of Florida Board of Trustees to Associate Professor of Biology. She […]
UF Biology Lecturer Stefanie Gazda and Rebecca Hamilton, the graduate student she co-advised with Richard Connor at U. Mass. Dartmouth, have a new paper out in Behavioural Processes on our […]
Drs. Allison Edgar, José Miguel Ponciano, and Mark Martindale published a paper in the Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) – “Ctenophores are direct developers that reproduce continuously […]
The research, conducted by mathematics and botany senior Camille Sicangco, has been accepted for publication in Current Biology and shows the plant exerts force on its own, not just in […]
The 40th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium (ISTS) was held entirely online in March. During the conference, Alan Bolten was posthumously awarded the ISTS Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an individual […]
Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on Earth. In the oceans, microbes capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical transformations of important elements, produce and consume greenhouse gases, and provide the base […]
Department of Biology graduate students, Alexandra Gulick and Renato Bruno (Bjorndal Lab / Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research), received awards for their presentations at the International Sea Turtle […]