Dr. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis’ review of David F. Prindle’s book: Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution is featured in the recent issue of Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1179955
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University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species there.
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We proudly congratulate our 22 undergraduates who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. Phi Beta Kappa (ΦBK) is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. The society identifies “the ideal Phi Beta Kappan” as one who “has demonstrated intellectual integrity, tolerance for other views, and a broad range of […]
FLMNH ornithologists received a three-year, $446,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to digitize the museum’s collection of 2,200 reel-to-reel and cassette tapes that date as far back as the 1960s.
Dr. Brad Barbazuk is a coauthor of the paper, “The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics” in the most recent issue of Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1178534
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Drs. Ricardo Holdo, Ben Bolker, Bob Holt and associates’ paper, “A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C” was published in a recent issue of PLoS Biology and in Nature Research Highlights. This paper was also discussed by the Faculty of 1000 Biology. PLoS Biol 7(9): e1000210. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000210
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Biology graduate student, Fabiany Herrera and collaborators’ paper, “Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejo
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Dr. William and Nadine McGuire of Wayzata, Minn., donated this collection valued at more than $41 million. This brings UF’s butterfly and moth collection to more than 9 million specimens making it one of the world’s largest.
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Dr. Brian Silliman’s work is described in today’s issue of Science, along with a quote from him in the article, “On the Origin of Ecological Structure.”
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Ph.D. student Catalina Pimento’s research on the gigantic prehistoric shark, Megalodon, is featured on Discovery News.
Dr. Charles Baer and colleagues’ paper, “A genome-wide view of Caenorhabditis elegans base-substitution mutation processes,” was recently published in PNAS (PNAS 2009 106:16310-16314) and featured on Science Daily.
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Ph.D. candidate Ryan McCleary’s collaborative work with Dr. Heard from the UF College of Veterinary Medicine led to the development of a safe, reliable, and humane technique for collecting venom from cottonmouths.
Dr. David Reed received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study the evolutionary biology of human lice.
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Dr. Evgeny Mavrodiev’s paper, “Classical Morphology of Plants as an Elementary Instance of Classical Invariant Theory” was published in the most recent issue of PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE 4(9): e6969. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006969
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Drs. Doug and Pam Soltis’ were co authors on the paper, “Comparison of next generation sequencing technologies for transcriptome characterization” published in the August issue of BMC Genomics. (BMC Genomics 2009, 10:347doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-347)
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Dr. David Smith was coauthor on the paper, “Optimally timing primaquine treatment to reduce Plasmodium falciparum transmission in low endemicity Thai-Myanmar border populations” published in the Malaria Journal. (Malaria Journal 2009, 8:159 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-159)
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Dr. Michelle Mack’s work on the effect of tundra fires on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is covered in a story in today’s issue of Nature.
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Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Maribeth Latvis recently received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Postdoctoral associates Polly Campbell and Alexander Ophir and associate professor Steven Phelps’ paper: “Central Vasopressin and Oxytocin Receptor Distributions in Two Species of Singing Mice”, was published in the October 2009 issue the of Journal of Comparative Neurology.
These faculty members and their awarded grants include: Marty Cohn -HHMI Award, David Smith -Gates Foundation Award,and Ted Schuur, Steve Phelps, Sixue Chen, and David Reed -NSF’s CAREER award. These four CAREER grant winners make up 40% of the total number of CAREER awardees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), which is […]