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 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 […]
Congratulations to Walt Judd
Professor Walter S. Judd is the 2012 recipient of the José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany. This medal is presented annually to a botanist and scholar of international stature who has contributed significantly to advancing the field of tropical botany.
UF research on newly formed plants could lead to improved crop fertility
A new University of Florida study shows genomes of a recently formed plant species to be highly unstable, a phenomenon that may have far-reaching evolutionary consequences. Published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the first to document chromosomal variation in natural populations of a recently formed […]
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Graduate student Lucas Majure’s research featured on msnbc.com
The discovery of the blue sedge in a cemetery in Mississippi four years ago has not revealed all its secrets. This species of grass native from Asia, Australia and New Zealand, may have been introduced unintentionally by people visiting Kelly Mitchell’s grave, “the Queen of Gypsies”.
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Associate Professor Ted Schuur receives 1 million dollar grant
Ted Schuur received a one million dollar grant from the Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Department of Energy for a proposal entitled “Effects of Warming the Deep Soil And Permafrost on Ecosystem Carbon Balance in Alaskan Tundra: A Coupled Measurement and Modeling Approach”. This project is aimed at understanding the influence of the Arctic on the pace […]
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Craig Osenberg receives NSF grant
Professor Craig Osenberg and his colleague Tom Frazer from the department of Fisheries and Aquatic Biology have received an NSF grant to study the interaction between vermitid snails and corals in French Polynesia on the island of Moorea. Vermitids are an unusual group of snails that live embedded in corals. They feed by casting a […]
Assistant professor Keith Choe receives NSF grant
Keith Choe has gotten the news that NSF will fund his 5-year grant entitled “A gene regulatory pathway that balances animal survival and proliferation”. Congratulations Keith!
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Todd Palmer co-authors study in Science
Associate Professor Todd Palmer is co-author on a study published in the journal Science which investigates the maintenance of a plant-fungi mutualism.
Graduate student Oscar Tarazona receives HHMI fellowship
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) started a new fellowship program to support international graduate students. Oscar Tarazona is among the 48 students who have been awarded the fellowship from a pool of 385 applicants. Oscar, originally from Colombia, is a graduate student in the Martin Cohn Lab where he works on the evolution and development […]
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Associate Professors Michelle Mack and Ted Schuur published paper in Nature
Michelle Mack and her collaborators, including Ted Schuur from the department of Biology published in the last issue of the journal Nature a study on the impact of wildfires on carbon release in Alaska.
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Professor Craig W. Osenberg co-authors paper in Nature
Craig W. Osenberg co-authors a study published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature. With his colleagues, he showed that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increase emission of other greenhouse gases (methane and nitrous oxide) from the soil.
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Eminent Scholar Bob Holt co-authors paper on the importance of predators in Science
Dr Robert D. Holt is one of the authors of an article published in the last issue of the journal Science which addresses the cascading effects of losing top predators in terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.
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