Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sixue Chen, Biology’s newest American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow! AAAS awards Fellow status to “a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching, and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating […]
The Department of Biology and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is proud to announce Dr. Connie Rich has been recognized the 2021-2022 CLAS College Teaching Award! The 2021-2022 College Teaching/Advising Awards honor the exceptional teachers and advisors in each college for the difference they make in students’ lives. Congratulations to Dr. Connie Rich!
Department of Biology Professors Malcolm Maden (PI) and Brad Barbazuk (Co-PI) have been awarded $1M from NSF Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) to study heart regeneration using single-cell RNAseq in spiny mice, Acomys. The grant ‘Investigating cardiac repair in a new adult mammalian model for regeneration, the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus’ is for 3 years. For more […]
Department of Biology and Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience Graduate Student, Elias Lunsford (from the Liao Lab) won the Best Student Paper competition at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting last week in the Division of Neurobiology, Neuroethology and Sensory Biology! His in-person talk described how he used first principles to upend a longstanding assumption […]
Cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto), the dominant species acrossmany wild and domesticated landscapes on the southeasterncoastal plain and the state tree of both Florida and SouthCarolina, is threatened by an introduced pathogen (16 SrIV-Dphytoplasma) transmitted by a native insect (Haplaxius crudus).Larvae of this plant hopper thrive in turfgrass thatch […] Read More
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A new study led by Department of Biology postdoctoral associate Christopher Dutton, sheds light on the Hippo “meta-gut” – pools of hippo excrement that act as an extension of the hippo gut – allowing microbes and bacteria to be shared among congregating animals. This work has been Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The team includes UF Assistant Professor […]
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New research published in Science shows that as populations of people gain immunity to dengue, it drives evolutionary pressures that select for viral evolution—and newly susceptible hosts.
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Daniel Paluh, a Ph.D. candidate in David Blackburn’s lab, has been awarded a 2021 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). The Fellowship will fund Dan’s postdoctoral research on the developmental and molecular mechanisms of convergent tooth loss in frogs in the Fraser lab, Department of Biology, University of Florida. This project is […]
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Dr. Gareth Fraser, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, was awarded a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant through the Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) program to study the evolution of shark skin teeth from genotype to phenotype to prototype. This work, in collaboration with scientists at Harvard and Yale, will link the fields […]
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Biology graduate student Moein Rajaei, along with co-authors from UF, Eastern Washington University and Northwestern University, recently published a paper in Genome Research titled ” Mutability of mononucleotide repeats, not oxidative stress, explains the discrepancy between laboratory-accumulated mutations and the natural allele-frequency spectrum in C. elegans“. https://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.275372.121 Abstract: Important clues about natural selection can […]
Dr. Teresa Mutahi, Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major, has been awarded a NACADA Certificate of Merit of the Outstanding New Advisor Award – Primary Advising Role. NACADA is the international association that promotes quality academic advising in higher education. The NACADA Global Awards Program for Academic Advising honors individuals and institutions […]
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Biology graduate student Keon Wimberly (Ph.D. student in Keith Choe’s Lab) is the winner of the 2021 UF Genetics Institute Graduate Student Showcase! The students involved in this virtual conference were from UFGI-affiliated labs. They presented 3-minute talks on their research using one slide. Keon was recognized for his talk, “Identification of a novel kinase in cell stress.” […]
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ESA Honors Four Biology Alums The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has honored four Biology Department graduates with special awards. Elected as 2021 Fellows of the ESA are Becky Ostertag (Putz Lab Ph.D. 1998; now Professor of Biology at University of Hawaii, Hilo) and Amy Zanne (Chapman Lab, Ph.D. 2003; now Associate Professor of Biological […]
A publication from Biology Professor Derek Cummings’ Lab is being recognized as one of the most frequently read articles from Nature Communications in 2020 (Life and Biological Sciences). The article “A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity” is also one of the top 50 SARS-CoV-2 publications […]
Three Biology undergraduate students from Malcolm Maden’s Lab, Nicole Serrano (BS 2017), Monica Bermudez (BS 2019) and Aaron Sandoval (BS 2019) have co-authored a study published in the Journal of Anatomy (2020; 00:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13373) entitled “A profusion of neural stem cells in the brain of the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus.”
Congratulations to Biology Senior Lecturer Dr. Christine Davis for her award from the inaugural UF Research competition for Advancing Racial Justice Through Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access at the University of Florida.
Biology assistant professor Ana Longo has been awarded a new research grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “Defining the role of skin microbiomes in defense against chytridiomycosis in frogs with seasonal infections.”
Research by Biology graduate student Ian Ausprey (Scott Robinson’s Lab) is highlighted in the journal Science! The News article is entitled “Eye size predicts where birds breed and feed.” The original study is in a forthcoming issue of Ecology, “Adaptations to light predict the foraging niche and disassembly of avian communities in tropical countrysides.”
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Biology alumnus Patrick Farrar sheds light on the experiences of international students.
