Congratulations to seniors Kayla Ventura and Becca O’Toole for receiving Young Botanist Awards from the Botanical Society of America.
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Congratulations to our own Kyle, Dave, and Priscilla from CLAS IT who were awarded a 2016 Prudential Productivity Award. Again, congratulations Kyle, Dave, and Priscilla on this prestigious award. Thank you for your excellent service!
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Congratulations to Dr. Jeanne A. Mortimer who recently received a very prestigious honor, the “Lifetime Achievement Award”, from the International Sea Turtle Society. Mortimer, often referred to as ‘Madanm Torti” or the Turtle Lady, has over 40 years of experience working with sea turtles. See the article about her work and award in the Seychelles News Agency. Again, congratulations […]
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Congratulations to Emily Woodruff and Arianna Harrington along with their advisors & collaborators. They have a paper out in Nature, describing the first fossil Monkeys in N. America.
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Art-Science Exhibition opened on April 15-August 15, 2016 at the Libby Gallery here on campus (details below). The exhibit features creative works that combine elements of art and science in new and interesting ways. These works represent the outcomes of semester-long collaborations between art and science students as part of my class that I co-teach […]
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UF Biology faculty Todd Palmer, Associate Professor has just received $1.2M from NSF to study “Landscape-scale consequences of mutualism disruption: invasive ants threaten a widespread ant-plant mutualism in East Africa”. Great job Todd!
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Department of Biology nearly swept the UF awards from the Sigma Xi-Grants-in-Aid program this year with 6 recipients. Congratulations to: Meghan Bentz, Zach Emberts, Travis Guy, Robert Johnson, Jerald Pinson, and Mark Sandfoss!
Graduate students, Christopher Krieg, and Dan Paluh both received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Yuzo Yanagitsuru, Jonathan Spoelhof, Leslie Kollar, Alexandra Gulick, Sarah Carey, and Nathan Catlin received honorable mention. Again congratulations!
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Otar Akanyeti, a 4th year postdoc in the Liao Lab, has a first-authored publication in Nature Communications (with featured photo) on how fishes can optimize multiple behaviors (swimming, flow sensing and respiration) simultaneously without apparent trade offs. Read more in Nature Communications.
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Biology’s latest international option for undergraduates: The opportunity to study in Aberdeen, Scotland! The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland and is the fifth oldest university in the English speaking world. Students may attend in the fall, the spring, or for the entire academic year. Curriculum and course substitutions have been specially […]
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Public health officials are drawing on expertise from many disciplines to determine whether the Zika virus is indeed responsible for a surge in birth defects. UF scientists Derek Cummings, Professor in the Department of Biology, gives expertise on how Islands can offer a uniquely revealing picture of outbreaks. The full story can be found here in the […]
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Congratulations to Mike Gil and Joe Pfaller on a recent front page article in the Gainesville Sun regarding their research. The University of Florida researchers discovered that diverse communities of rafting animals can inhabit even the smoothest pieces of plastic debris if barnacles step in first to create complex habitat, similar to trees in a rainforest or […]
The National Geographic Society has just issued its first press release about the opening of this new traveling museum exhibit on crocodilians, which will open later this month at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kent Vliet served as the principal scientific advisor for the development of this exhibit, produced by Peeling Productions […]
At the recent meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Joe Pfaller was awarded best student presentation by The Crustacean Society for his talk entitled “High seas hitchhiker and sea turtle symbiont: global genetics and ecological interactions of oceanic crabs.” Congratulations to Joe!
Symbiosis, the Department of Biology newsletter’s Fall 2015 edition is available for PDF download here! This issue of Symbiosis provides updates about the research of some of our emeritus faculty and undergraduate students.
Pauline is the recipient of a Burroughs-Wellcome Travel Award of $1,900 to collaborate with Dr. John Gilleard at the University of Calgary, an expert in nematode parasites. They will work together to characterize the role of a stress response pathway in drug resistance. Go Pauline and the rest of the Choe Lab!
Judit Ungvari-Martin and Tong Zhang were both awarded spring semester CLAS Dissertation Fellowships. Judit’s was funded by the Robin and Jean Gibson Fellowship Endowment, and Tong’s was funded by the Maurice C. Holmes and Frances A Holmes Endowed Fellowship in the amount of $7,000. Congratulations!
A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Fourth Edition of Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach reflects changes in the circumscription and placement of several families in order to represent monophyletic groups, following the classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (and recent phylogenetic analyses). Appendices cover botanical nomenclature as well as field and herbarium methodology. […]
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Eleven CLAS Biology majors and one Zoology major were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society. These students have exceptional GPAs (3.75 for graduation candidates; 3.90 for “rising seniors”) as well as significant breadth of study in the liberal arts and sciences outside of their major discipline (a minimum of 36 hours). They have […]
Eleven UF Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History graduate students will be participating in an art installation at the Hippodrome Theater titled “Art of Biology”. The formal gallery opening is on Friday, November 13th from 6-8pm and the photos will be available to view until November 21. The installation will contain artistic images of the subjects each student studies, along with scientific descriptions. The goal is […]