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 […]
Ph.D. candidate, Matt Smith’s Master’s research is cited in the latest edition of John’s Alcock’s classic textbook, “An evolutionary approach to animal behavior.”
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Dr. Scott Robinson is featured in a NOVA Science NOW episode covering the mafia-like and ‘vengeful’ behaviors of Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater).
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Biology professor Brian McNab was quoted in a July 6 MSNBC story about his research into the possible reasons why dinosaurs were able to grow so large. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
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Doctoral candidate Larisa R. G. DeSantis was coauthor on the PNAS paper: “Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo”, which gives evidence that human hunting was the cause of this species ultimate extinction. This paper is featured on the BBC news website.
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Biology professor Malcolm Maden was quoted in a July 1 London Telegraph story about his research into how humans might be able to replicate the salamander’s ability to regenerate body parts. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
DeSantis et al.’s “Effects of Global Warming on Ancient Mammalian Communities and Their Environments” published in PLoS one is featured on WIRED SCIENCE, ScienceNOW, and MSNBC’s websites.
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A study published in the May 28 issue of the journal Nature has helped define the potentially significant contribution of permafrost thaw to atmospheric concentrations of carbon, which have already reached unprecedented levels. In earlier work we estimated that widespread permafrost thaw could potentially release 0.8-1.1 gigatons of carbon per year, said Ted Schuur an […]
Research: Mockingbirds, no bird brains, can recognize a face in a crowd
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Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve.
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A University of Florida scientist whose interest in embryonic development and evolution led him to discover the molecular building blocks that shape appendages ranging from feet to flippers was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist today (Thursday, March 26), a distinction given to only 50 researchers in the United States.
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UF zoologists have found that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than toads near farms – where some had both testes and ovaries.
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