Biology

Michelle Mack, Ph.D. Professor of Biology has received a UF Research Foundation Professorship Award. The term of the professorship is from 2014-2016. Congratulations Michelle!

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Mike Frick and Mike Gunter were recognized today as recipients of the UF Superior Accomplishment Awards. These awards recognize staff who do meritorious service and go above and beyond their standard jobs to enhance UF and enrich the lives of our students, staff and faculty. In addition, Mike Frick received the Jeffrey A Gabor Employee […]

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Keith Choe, Assistant Professor of Biology has been selected this year’s UF Teacher of the Year! One of the highest honors bestowed by the University upon its faculty. This annual year award is given in recognition for Keith’s strong commitment to education, mentoring, and outreach. It is a very well deserved honor. Congratulations Keith!

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Congratulations to Nicole Gerlach for receiving a UF Online Education Excellence Award (along with the CITT designer) for BSC 2009 course. Nicole, again congratulations!

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Peter Houlihan has been awarded a 2014 Waitt Grant from the National Geographic Society. This is a wonderful grant that will support $12,000 of his research on the evolution and behavior of Darwin’s hawkmoth and orchids in Africa. Congratulations Peter!

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Congratulations! Kelsey Lewis and Travis Guy, first year Ph.D. Biology students working with Marty Cohn (Kelsey), and with Todd Palmer (Travis) both received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

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Nathanial Evans and Jenna Moore were both awarded a Smithsonian Pre-doctoral Fellowship, funding a year of work at the National Museum for 2014-2015. Congratulations Jenna and Nathanial!

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Congratulations to Robert Johnson and Blaine Marchant who both received an honorable mention.

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Congratulations! Maribeth Latvis has received the Calvin A. VanderWerf Award. Maribeth was rated the top nominee for the 2013-2014 Graduate Student Teaching Award. Again, congratulations for a job well done!

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One hundred years ago on the brink of WWI, American botanists changed the course of plant science with the founding of a national publication, the American Journal of Botany. The journal not only endured through the Great War, it also continued to evolve through the wars that followed, the Great Depression, and the ever-changing arena […]

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The Sad Tale of the Thirsty, Dehydrated Sea Snake

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Two papers from the Amborella genome project were just published in Science. Amborella, as the sister group to all other living flowering plants, serves as an evolutionary reference for studies of the genes, genomes, and other features of all other flowering plants, and the first paper reports the genome sequence and initial analyses of its […]

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Congratulations to Otar Akanyeti, a postdoc with Jimmy Liao at the Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, for getting this month’s cover article in The Journal of Experimental Biology for his work on modeling how fish swim in turbulent flows. What a wonderful accomplishment! Please see current issue; December 2013, 216 (24).

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Congratulations to Taal Levi (incoming post-doc with Bob Holt), whose recent paper on competition and facilitation between capuchin and squirrel monkeys was recognized as the inaugural Editor’s Choice recipient in Biotropica.

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Francisa Leal has been named HHMI International Student Research Fellow. Last Fall, departments and colleges held internal competitions to select nominees for the University-wide competition. Finalists were then nominated to HHMI for the national competition. Sixty-one institutions nominated 377 students, of which 42 were selected. What a wonderful honor. Congratulations Francisca!

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Congratulations to Associate Professor Charles Baer (PI) and Assistant Professor Keith Choe (co-investigator) on their recent NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant to purchase a Large Particle Flow Cytometer (i.e., a “worm sorter”) for the UF Flow Cytometry Core Facility

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Congratulations to Associate Professor David Julian on your grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) towards new program entitled: “The Bioscience Scholars Program: Bringing the Master’s Degree Within Reach”.

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Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt has been nominated to receive the Per Brinck Oikos Award which will be hosted by the Swedish Oikos Society. What a prestigious honor for this distinguished ecologist!

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Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Congratulations Bob!

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Asst. Prof. James C. Liao just submitted a paper into JEB, and it’s published online ahead-of-print: “The effect of flow speed and body size on K

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