Biology

The Department of Biology’s Stefanie Gazda and Brenda Such (from COIP) published an article on course design for BSC2010/2010L and BSC2011/2011L. These courses were redesigned three times over three years, based on multiple different factors, and targeting 4 main parts: clear instructions, interactions, engaging activities, and versatile learning materials. Stephanie and Brenda found that multiple […]

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Graduate student Manasee Weerathunga, in the Burleigh Lab, wrote an article for the “where I work” careers section in Nature.

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We are pleased to announce that Biology Faculty member Dr. Gareth Fraser has been granted promotion and tenure by the University of Florida Board of Trustees to Associate Professor of Biology.

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Researchers just discovered that the spiny mouse was concealing bony plates beneath the skin over its tail. www.nytimes.com A new study shows that bony plates (Osteoderms) commonly found in the skin of reptiles, and only known in mammals from the skin of armadillos, have now been discovered in the tails of a subfamily of rodents, the […]

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Title: Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA The paper outlines the relative ease of collecting human DNA nearly everywhere they looked. “We’ve been consistently surprised throughout this project at how much human DNA we find and the quality of that DNA,” Duffy said. “In most […]

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