Inspiring: UF alumni Gloria Tavera honored by Forbes magazine as one of “30 Under 30” people to watch for her work to make medicines accessible to developing countries. Gloria was a double major in IDS Neurobiology & Political Science and spent a lot of time here in Bartram-Carr. She is currently enrolled in medical school at […]
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Ten Biology majors were selected to join Phi Beta Kappa from the class of 2016. These students have exceptional GPAs as well as significant breadth of study in the liberal arts and sciences outside their major discipline. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest (founded Dec 5, 1776) and most prestigious academic honor society. Congratulations […]
Three Biology faculty were elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by the AAAS Council: Alice Harmon, Jack Ewel and Robert Holt. This award recognizes these scientists for their distinguished research, teaching and service careers and for their many contributions to the fields of plant physiology (Harmon) and ecology (Ewel and […]
Biology graduate students Sarah Allen (working with Steve Manchester) and Jing Jiao (working with Craig Osenberg and Sergei Pilyugin) received Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment Dissertation Fellowships from CLAS. Sarah is studying the fossilized plants from the early Eocene Blue Rim site of southwestern Wyoming. Jing uses spatial and theoretical models to study […]
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Biology graduate student, Francisca Leal, and Professor Marty Cohn published an important new paper in Current Biology, “Loss and re-emergence of legs in snakes by modular evolution of sonic hedgehog and HOXD enhancers” (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.020 ). They show that hind limb development in python embryos is arrested due to mutations that abolish an essential transcription […]
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Congratulations to Fatma Kaplan, who is pursuing a research career outside academia. She describes her path to this new scientific home in an article published in Science! You can read more here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6309/254 (14 October 2016) Great job Fatma! Thanks for sharing your experiences which will no doubt inspire others to be creative in finding […]
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A sea snake that behaves like plankton? Dr. Harvey Lillywhite has just published this work in Biology Letters. The yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus) spends much of its time at or near the ocean surface and ranges from the southeastern coast of Africa across the Indo-Pacific to the western shores of Central America. This colorful, venomous snake […]
Biology Eminent Scholar, Robert D. Holt, together with colleagues from the US and seven other countries, published an important new paper in Science, “Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change” (9 September 2016). The paper argues that most current models for the effects of climate change on biodiversity do not provide sufficiently accurate predictions. […]
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Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from Biology and the Florida Museum of Natural History teamed up Saturday morning (24 September 2016) for a BioBlitz of Bartram-Carr Woods. Organized by Dr. Jack Putz, 30 participants spread out across the conservation area identifying whatever they found. The plants were a central focus, separating invasive from native species and doing […]
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Congratulations to Derek Cummings for co-authoring two major papers in Science, one on Zika and the other on Dengue. Together with colleagues from Johns Hopkins, Institut Pasteur, Imperial College, Princeton and UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, Biology Professor Derek Cummings co-authored an important review “Assessing the global threat from zika virus” (Science 12 August 2016). The […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Ping Huang – recent graduate of the Kimball & St. Mary labs! She won the inaugural Mark E. Hauber Award from the American Ornithologists’ Union (August 2016). This Award recognizes the most outstanding student oral presentation on avian behavior at the annual North American Ornithological Conference. Her talk was titled “Phenotypic integration […]
Dr. Peter Hosner, post-doc in the Kimball Lab, received the 2016 Young Professional Award from the Cooper Ornithological Society presented at the North American Ornithological Conference. This award recognizes early-career researchers for their outstanding contributions to ornithology. Pete studies how geographical, environmental, and ecological factors limit avian distributions and how these factors influence patterns of […]
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Biology Professor Michael Miyamoto and co-instructor Michelle Tennant led a 6-week Study Abroad course to Madagascar this summer. Together with 12 UF students, they travelled in one of the world’s most biologically diverse landscapes and explored the many conservation issues the country faces. The students participated in a number of valuable projects, including planting more […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Jane Brockmann who received the 2016 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Columbia, Missouri. This is the Society’s most prestigious award recognizing an outstanding career in the field of Animal Behavior.
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Jeremy Lichstein who has been named a 2016 Florida Climate Institute Fellow. This award recognizes Jeremy’s influential research on the effect of climate change on forests and his contributions to UF’s interdisciplinary communities of climate science. Great work, Jeremy!
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Congratulations to Professor and Department Chair of Biology Marta Wayne and Professor Benjamin Bolker of McMaster University (previously of UF Zoology). You can read the blog post written about their book Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction by clicking this link.
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Todd Palmer, who has received a Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professorship for 2016-2017. “Competition is always very stiff for this award”, but Todd’s amazing research and teaching profile rose to the top. Great work Todd!
Douglas Soltis explains the interrelation of all species on earth with a beautiful, brilliant, constantly-evolving map. Dr. Soltis is currently studying what we know as the “Tree of Life.” His awards and accomplishments alone could fill a book, including over 450 publications, the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal and more than eight million dollars in grants and […]
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Former graduate student Oscar Tarazona and two of his undergraduate mentees (along with Biology graduate alumn Jun Zhang) have a paper in today’s issue of Nature, highlighting the ancient nature of cartilage. The genetic network underlying cartilage production pre-dates the split between Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Deuterostomia: 700 million years of evolution! Read about it here.
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This issue of symbiosis is all about the research of undergraduate students. Download the PDF here.