UFRF Professorship
Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Edward (Ted) Schuur has been chosen to receive a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship award. The term of this professorship is from 2013-2016.
CLAS Term Professorship
Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Kimball was awarded the Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor. Kimball received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Term Professorship for 2013-2014.
Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Congratulations to Biology UF Eminent Scholar who holds the Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology; will be inducted into the Academy on Oct. 12.
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NSF Grant awarded
Congratulations to Assistant Professor James C. Liao, who was awarded a NSF grant entitled “Single Neuromast Resolution of Flow Sensing in the Zebrafish Lateral Line” as a sole PI for $516,083 on 5/24/13 (effective date on 7/01/13).
Better data needed in determining sea turtle population trends
The study was led by doctoral student Joseph Pfaller, 30, who has worked with the Caretta Research Project since he was 15. Pfaller knew this was one of the few long-term datasets that would allow for this study. Pfaller and Dr. Karen Bjorndal, as well as biologist Dr. Alan Bolten of the Archie Carr Center for Sea […]
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REDD+ and Climate Change Adaptation Working Group
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA REDD+ and Climate Change Adaptation Working Group Using Agent-Based Models to Design REDD+ Policies: A Two-Day Workshop WHAT: The University of Florida REDD+ Working Group is excited to announce a two-day workshop ( 25-26 April 2013) to develop agent-based models to appraise drivers of deforestation and degradation and thus to design REDD+ […]
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Jack Putz inducted into The University of Florida’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars
Each year the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars honors University of Florida’s exceptional teaching and scholarship accomplishments by inducting into its membership faculty members who have demonstrated sustained innovation and commitment in both areas. Jack was selected based on strong evidence of the integration of superior teaching and research and a record of distinguished scholarly […]
Congratulations to Juliet Pulliam!
Juliet Pulliam has just been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health R25 grant to support the International Clinics on Infectious Disease Dynamics and Data (ICI3D) Program. The program will establish two international clinics on disease dynamics and data, as well as supporting a large number of national and international students and scholars.
Jose Miguel Ponciano awarded $1.25 million from the National Institutes of Health
Congratulations to Jose Miguel Ponciano, who was awarded a 4-year grant from the NIH to study the diversity and stability of microbial communities. The long-term goal of this work is to identify the fundamental biological processes responsible for the complex microbial community dynamics of the vaginal microbiome, and the mechanisms that lead to community type […]
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UF Eminent Scholar Bob Holt publishes a new book!
Congratulations to Bob Holt, whose new book “Trait-mediated Indirect Interactions” was just published by Cambridge University Press.
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Congratulations to Ted Schurr!
Ted’s Permafrost Carbon Network project continues to be featured prominently in the news, most recently in a story on global warming’s effects on the Arctic, featured in Science magazine.
Congratulations to Brian McNab on his new book “Extreme Measures: The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals”
Brian’s book, published by the University of Chicago Press, was recently reviewed in the journal Science.
Congratulations to Sixue Chen for his 4-year NSF award
Associate Professor Sixue Chen was awarded a 4-year NSF grant for his research on metabolomics of plant stomatal movement. The award totaling 1.5 million dollars funds a collaborative project between Chen Lab and Assmann lab at PennState University. The research team plans to use modern biological tools including mass spectrometry to investigate the functions of […]
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Sea level rise and coastal forests
Jack Putz recently published an article about the effects of sea level rise on coastal forests around Florida. This article summarizes research by many faculty and students form the department.
Congratulations to our graduate students!
It’s the time of the year when awards, grants and other forms of academic excellence are being recognized. The graduate students of the department received recently quite a few of these recognitions. Grant Godden received a NSF DDIG award to investigate the phylogeny of mints. Mike Gil received the award for the best oral presentation […]
Congratulations to Todd Palmer
Assistant Professor Todd Palmer was awarded a 5-year NSF CAREER award for his research on the mutualism between acacias and their ant bodyguards in Africa. Acacias can live over 100 years. During their lifetime, the trees associate with various species of ants which all have different effects on their hosts. The goal of this project […]
Congratulations to Keith Choe
Assistant Professor Keith Choe is the recipient of the 2012 New Investigator Award from the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology section of the American Physiological Society. The award will be presented at the Experimental Biology meeting (a huge meeting that includes concurrent meetings of several societies and some 10,000 attendees) in San Diego, April 21-25, 2012. […]
Congratulations to three graduate students who were given 2012 UF-HHMI Science for Life Graduate Student Awards
Graduate students, Kristine Callis, Katrina Cuddy and Hannah Vander Zanden received the 2012 UF-HHMI Science for Life Graduate Student Award. These awards recognize the commitment to these students to act as mentors for undergraduate students, to use an interdisciplinary approach to science, and to be successful at publishing their works as well as getting grants, […]
2012 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Sir Peter Crane, the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, will serve as the 2011-2012 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. He will be on campus from Friday, February 24 until Thursday February 28. He will be giving two lectures on campus, cosponsored by the Department […]