Art-Science Exhibition opened on April 15-August 15, 2016 at the Libby Gallery here on campus (details below). The exhibit features creative works that combine elements of art and science in new and interesting ways. These works represent the outcomes of semester-long collaborations between art and science students as part of my class that I co-teach […]
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Otar Akanyeti, a 4th year postdoc in the Liao Lab, has a first-authored publication in Nature Communications (with featured photo) on how fishes can optimize multiple behaviors (swimming, flow sensing and respiration) simultaneously without apparent trade offs. Read more in Nature Communications.
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Biology’s latest international option for undergraduates: The opportunity to study in Aberdeen, Scotland! The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland and is the fifth oldest university in the English speaking world. Students may attend in the fall, the spring, or for the entire academic year. Curriculum and course substitutions have been specially […]
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Public health officials are drawing on expertise from many disciplines to determine whether the Zika virus is indeed responsible for a surge in birth defects. UF scientists Derek Cummings, Professor in the Department of Biology, gives expertise on how Islands can offer a uniquely revealing picture of outbreaks. The full story can be found here in the […]
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Congratulations to Mike Gil and Joe Pfaller on a recent front page article in the Gainesville Sun regarding their research. The University of Florida researchers discovered that diverse communities of rafting animals can inhabit even the smoothest pieces of plastic debris if barnacles step in first to create complex habitat, similar to trees in a rainforest or […]
The National Geographic Society has just issued its first press release about the opening of this new traveling museum exhibit on crocodilians, which will open later this month at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kent Vliet served as the principal scientific advisor for the development of this exhibit, produced by Peeling Productions […]
Symbiosis, the Department of Biology newsletter’s Fall 2015 edition is available for PDF download here! This issue of Symbiosis provides updates about the research of some of our emeritus faculty and undergraduate students.
A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Fourth Edition of Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach reflects changes in the circumscription and placement of several families in order to represent monophyletic groups, following the classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (and recent phylogenetic analyses). Appendices cover botanical nomenclature as well as field and herbarium methodology. […]
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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 “rising seniors”) as well as significant breadth of study in the liberal arts and sciences outside of their major discipline (a minimum of 36 hours). They have […]
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 will be available to view until November 21. The installation will contain artistic images of the subjects each student studies, along with scientific descriptions. The goal is […]
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 centered on measuring the structure of coral reef communities over space and time within Akumal Bay, Mexico, a booming tourism hot spot, largely due to […]
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 in Panama. Catalina’s work included focusing on regional resources to make content relevant and authentic. Learn more about her work, which was just published in […]
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 study appears this week online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This research is part of the “Open Tree of Life”, a […]
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 examining what they want from a research position, what is realistic to achieve with the commitment they are willing to make, gain a solid understanding […]
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 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 effect of moss diversity on nitrogen-fixing microbes in the Alaskan arctic. McDaniel, Ponciano and their colleagues plan to use the moss-microbe interactions to understand of […]
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Does shark predation change sea turtle movements? Surprisingly, no! This paper is co-authored by Mike Frick, Teaching Lab Specialist, Department of Biology, UF.
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 front page of ASBMBToday (or, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for the non-cognoscenti), which has a readership of approximately 32,000. Paris also […]
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. Read the abstract here and the Washington Post article here.
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 Plants” ($2,321,452) has been recommended for funding through NSF’s Genealogy of Life (GoLife) program. Project abstract: For the first ~300 million years of plant life […]