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Biology Undergraduate Coordinator is CLAS Faculty Adviser of the Year Teresa Mutahi, Biology Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major, has received the 2019-2020 Faculty Adviser of the Year award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This award recognizes excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in undergraduate advising.… Read More International Awards in Biology Each year the International Center and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognize the accomplishments of international students and faculty at the University of Florida. This year members of Biology received many of these special awards. Tom Hladish, Ph.D.… Read More Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval! Multiple award-winning Biology undergraduate Aaron Sandoval (CLAS scholarship, Goldwater scholarship) has now won a Marshall scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge for one year and King’s College London for a second year. This is only the second Marshall scholarship awarded to… Read More Emily Sessa receives new grant from NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $1.2 million to Emily Sessa, who will lead a collaborative, multi-institution team in a study of the “fern spore spike”, a phenomenon in the fossil record in which fern spores are disproportionately highly… Read More Fraser Lab Publishes Study on Dental Stem Cells An important new paper describing the development of shark teeth has been published in Nature Scientific Reports by Biology Assistant Professor, Gareth Fraser. One remarkable feature of shark teeth is that they are continually replaced whereas humans have only two… Read More Biology grad students receive dissertation awards Two Ph.D. students in Biology, Harrison Jones and Patrick Milligan, will receive Dissertation Fellowships during Spring 2020 funded by the Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Both are Ph.D. students in… Read More Graduate Student Chris Krieg Receives NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship Christopher Krieg, a Ph.D. student in Emily Sessa’s lab, has been awarded a 2019 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The Fellowship will fund Chris’ post-doctoral research on the ecology and physiology of cycads, an ancient and primitive… Read More Graduate Student Zachary Emberts Receives NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship Zachary Emberts, a recent Ph.D. from Colette St. Mary’s and Christine Miller’s labs, has been awarded a 2019 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The Fellowship will fund Zach’s post-doctoral research on the evolution of animal weapons,… Read More Sargasso Research Nerine Constant and Alexandra Gulick recently returned from a very successful expedition on a Greenpeace research vessel in the Sargasso Sea where they evaluated the thermal properties of Sargassum mats — important developmental habitat for sea turtles — and how those properties… Read More Christine Schnitzler Publishes on Regeneration in Science Christine Schnitzler, Assistant Professor of Biology, has published an important new study in Science on regeneration in Hydra, a tiny freshwater cnidarian (related to jellyfish) known for its ability to regenerate its entire body after injury. Together with colleagues from… Read More Emily Sessa Receives Emerging Leaders Award! Biology Assistant Professor Emily Sessa is the recipient of the 2019 Emerging Leaders Award from the Botanical Society of America (BSA). In awarding her this honor, the BSA describes Emily as, “…one of the brightest botanical stars of her generation…… Read More Biology Professor Todd Palmer featured in UF News & Nature Magazine What happens when a new lizard predator moves to your idyllic island community? If you are its prey, fear takes over and causes increased competition— and thus a fundamental change in community structure and the ability of prey species to… Read More Ant-Plant Mutualism Press Release Palmer Lab’s recent research in ant-plant mutualism: In a study published May 16 in the journal Ecology, University of Florida researchers Ryan Tamashiro and biology professor Todd Palmer show that ant-protected plants are much more vulnerable to herbivores during the… Read More Biology Professor Robert Holt Receives Eminent Ecologist Award The Ecological Society of America has awarded its highest honor, the Eminent Ecologist Award, to Robert Holt, Biology Eminent Scholar and Arthur R. Marshall, Jr., Chair in Ecology. The Eminent Ecologist Award from the ESA “honors a senior ecologist for… Read More Previous Next Recent News Biology Undergraduate Coordinator is CLAS Faculty Adviser of the Year January 24, 2020 Teresa Mutahi, Biology Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator for the UF Biology Major, has received the 2019-2020 Faculty Adviser of the Year award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This award recognizes excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in undergraduate advising.… Read More International Awards in Biology December 16, 2019 Each year the International Center and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognize the accomplishments of international students and faculty at the University of Florida. This year members of Biology received many of these special awards. Tom Hladish, Ph.D.… Read More Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval! December 10, 2019 Multiple award-winning Biology undergraduate Aaron Sandoval (CLAS scholarship, Goldwater scholarship) has now won a Marshall scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge for one year and King’s College London for a second year. This is only the second Marshall scholarship awarded to… Read More Emily Sessa receives new grant from NASA December 2, 2019 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $1.2 million to Emily Sessa, who will lead a collaborative, multi-institution team in a study of the “fern spore spike”, a phenomenon in the fossil record in which fern spores are disproportionately highly… Read More Fraser Lab Publishes Study on Dental Stem Cells November 12, 2019 An important new paper describing the development of shark teeth has been published in Nature Scientific Reports by Biology Assistant Professor, Gareth Fraser. One remarkable feature of shark teeth is that they are continually replaced whereas humans have only two… Read More More News Upcoming Events Jan 28 Jessica Metcalf, Ph.D., Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University,...