Research Interests: Bottom-up synthetic biology, synthetic life, cell-free synthetic biology, experimental in vitro evolution

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Profile: Zhanar Abil

Research Interests: Population and Evolutionary Genetics
Profile: Charles Baer

Research Interests: Genetics, Precision Disease Modeling, CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing, Developmental and Cell Biology, Mechanobiology, Lipid Biology, and Live-Cell Imaging

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Profile: Xiaofei Bai

Lab: 435 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex | Lab Phone: 352-294-5735

Research Interests: Computational, Comparative and Functional Genomics

Research Interests: Evolutionary and comparative genomics

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Research Interests: Computational phylogenetics

Research Interests: Plant systematics, evolutionary genomics, species interaction

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Research Interests: Animal Physiology and Molecular Biology

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Profile: Keith Choe

Research Interests: Developmental biology and evolution

Profile: Martin Cohn

Research Interests: Community-building teaching practices, collaborative learning, plant diversity, evolution, and systematics; bryology; plant-fungal symbioses

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Profile: E. Christine Davis

Research Interests: Plant systematics & phylogeography, edaphic endemism, and conservation genetics

Research Interests: Wildlife genomic medicine, cancer research and One Health

Research Interests: Marine microbiology

Research Interests: The role of microbiomes on environmental, animal, and human health. Open source technologies. Conservation. Ecosystem Ecology. Biogeochemistry. Bioinformatics.

Research Interests: EvoDevo

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Profile: Gareth Fraser

Research Interests: Online student engagement, dolphin behavioral and foraging ecology, predator-prey spatial dynamics

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Research Interests: Behavioral ecology; mating behavior and sexual selection

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Research Interests: Physiological ecology, community and ecosystem ecology, macroecology

Research Interests: Reproductive biology

Profile: Bernard Hauser

Research Interests: Theoretical Ecology

Profile: https://biology.ufl.edu/directory/robert-holt/

Website: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/rdholt/

Research Interests: endocytosis, autophagy, cell imaging, genome editing

Research Interests: Plant physiology, functional anatomy, and ecology

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Research Interests: Comparative and ecological physiology

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Research Interests: Behavioral Ecology, Disease Ecology

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Research Interests: Behavioral ecology; Molecular phylogenetics

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Research Interests: Community ecology, aquatic ecology

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Research Interests: Biomechanics and neurobiology of fish behavior

Research Interests: Forest dynamics; biodiversity; carbon cycle; climate change

Research Interests: Disease Ecology; Microbial Ecology; Amphibians

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Research Interests: Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Profile: Malcolm Maden

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Research Interests: Experimental Embryology and Evo-Devo

Whitney Page: Mark Martindale

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Research Interests: Animal light sensing systems, sensory systems, evolutionary development, neurophysiology, animal behavior

Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics

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Research Interests: With an expertise in biology, science and mathematics education, Dr. Mutahi is interested in research and initiatives geared towards biology/STEM curriculum development, diverse learners and active learning strategies in higher education institutions. Another area of interest is enhancing inclusion and success of underrepresented groups in STEM programs.

Research Interests: Mutualism, tropical ecology; community ecology; plant-animal interactions

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Research Interests: Stochastic processes in ecology, evolution and population genetics

Research Interests: Conservation Biology, Tropical Forestry, Fire Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Economic Botany, Natural Resource Economics, Plant Ecology, Botany, Plant Biomechanics

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Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics using experimental biology and bioinformatic techniques to address questions at the intersection of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and ecology

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Whitney Page: Joseph Ryan

Research Interests: Evolutionary, comparative, and functional genomics; stem cells and regeneration

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Whitney Page: Christine Schnitzler

Research Interests: Evolution and development of marine invertebrates

Whitney Page: Elaine Seaver

Research Interests: Evolutionary theory, systematics, and history

Research Interests: Systematics

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Research Interests: Neuroscience, Physiology, Biomechanics, Fishes

Research Interests: Community and ecosystem ecology; animal effects on ecosystems; aquatic ecology

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Research Interests: Neurobiology, genetics, physiology, developmental biology, immunology, virology; understanding the mechanisms that govern neurogenesis, neuronal regeneration, and neuroinflammation in the brain and retina

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Research Interests: Host-parasite coevolution; evolutionary genetics and genomics

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Research Interests: Social behavior, neural development, chemosensory system, aging

Profile: Hua Yan

Research Interests: Neural circuits; Chemosensation and interoception; Brain-body interactions; Feeding regulation and energy homeostasis.

Profile: Zepeng Yao

Research Interests: Animal migration, stable isotope ecology, sea turtles

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Additional Website: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research

Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics; Genotype-phenotype maps; Machine learning

Profile: Juannan Zhou