Katrina Cuddy won the the best poster presentation at the recent Florida Genetics Symposium. The title of her poster was “ER localization of a Novel Regulator of Actin Depolymerizing Factor (ADF)”. Wenbin Mei has received a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship funded by the Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment for Spring 2015.
provides a powerful example of how predators shape the landscapes in which they live. We showed that predators such as African wild dogs and leopards create a “landscape of fear”, which determines where herbivores like impala congregate to feed on plants. And where those impala do and do not go has a strong impact on […]
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Ebola control: effect of asymptomatic infection and acquired immunity by Steve E Bellan, Juliet R C Pulliam, Jonathan Dushoff, and Lauren Ancel Meyers in The Lancet. Some people clearly have been infected with Ebola, yet do not get sick. However, it is not currently known whether individuals who are infected without getting sick are immune to reinfection […]
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A couple having children can usually expect that they have an even chance of having a boy or a girl. This is generally true in animals, and even plants, where the sex of an offspring is controlled by the inheritance of a sex chromosome. However, this is not always the case. Tatum Norrell, a 2013 […]
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In an article published online in Economic Botany, undergraduate researcher Alisha Wainwright and Francis E. Putz from the Department of Biology report the results of a taste test comparing tea brewed from a common plant native to Florida (yaupon holly) with its close relative from South America, yerba mate. Through the 1800s, yaupon was a […]
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In a classic example of the law of unintended consequences, new University of Florida research suggests that wildlife corridors can sometimes encourage the spread of invasive species. Read the full article on the UF News page here.
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Thermokarst lakes formed across vast regions of Siberia and Alaska during the last deglaciation and are thought to be a net source of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide during the Holocene epoch1. However, the same thermokarst lakes can also sequester carbon5, and it remains uncertain whether carbon uptake by thermokarst lakes can offset their greenhouse […]
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An exciting paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B from the Kimball lab, including our own Kelly Meiklejohn as well as Rebecca Kimball and Ed Braun, will tell you more! Lots of cool press releases as well such as National Geographic, PHYS.ORG, and in Science Mag Sifter.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Charles Baer (PI), Assistant Professor José Miguel Ponciano (co-investigator) and Dr. Erik Andersen (Northwestern University, co-investigator) on their new NIH grant titled “Direct determination of the distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans
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!
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 […]
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!
Congratulations to Nicole Gerlach for receiving a UF Online Education Excellence Award (along with the CITT designer) for BSC 2009 course. Nicole, again congratulations!
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!
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.
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!
Congratulations to Robert Johnson and Blaine Marchant who both received an honorable mention.
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!
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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