The Department of Biology studies life at all levels from molecules to the biosphere to understand the evolution, structure, maintenance and dynamics of biological systems. Our teaching and research provide the integrative and conceptual foundations of the life sciences.

Seminars

Tue, Sep 07, 2010
Speaker: Brad Barbazuk
Investigating plant genome structure and function with computational and comparative genomics
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Speaker: Jamie Gillooly
Models and mechanisms of acoustic communication
Tue, Sep 21, 2010
Speaker: Marta Wayne
Coevolving variation: sex, flies, and viruses
Tue, Sep 28, 2010
Speaker: Francois Brischoux
Sea, Snakes and Sun: Marine Ecology of Sea Kraits in New Caledonia
Tue, Oct 05, 2010
Speaker: Tom Miller
Sex, dispersal, and the spread of invasive species
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News and Events

Graduate student receives UF teaching award
Congratulations to Lucas Majure on receiving the 2009-2010 UF graduate student teaching award. Lucas is a PhD candidate in the department of Biology and at the Florida Museum of Natural history. He received the award for teaching BOT 2710/5725, Plant Taxonomy. [more...]

SEPEEG 2010
The 2010 southeastern population ecology & evolutionary genetics meeting will be held the weekend of 8-10 October at the 4H center near Madison, Florida. The meeting will be hosted by the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville FL. Organizers: Charlie Baer and Marta Wayne. [more...]

Graduate student receives American Society of Mammalogists Shadle Fellowship
Biology doctoral student Bret Pasch received the Shadle Fellowship in Mammalogy at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyoming. The fellowship, provided annually by the Albert R. and Alma Shadle Endowment Fund and made by the Buffalo Foundation at the recommendation of the Grants-in-Aid Committee of ASM, is intended to promote a professional career in mammalogy by allowing the recipient greater freedom to pursue research. The fellowship is granted to a single graduate student and includes ~ $4,000 along with a set of ASM Special Publications and Mammalian Species reprints. [more...]

Biology faculty member awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Silliman on being awarded his first sole-PI NSF grant! He will examine how the loss of top-predators cascades downward to drive ecosystem die off in southern salt marshes. [more...]

Wilson Ornithology Society research awards announced
Ph.D. student, Jessica Oswald was named the 2010 Wilson Ornithological Society Louis Agassiz Fuertes research award winner. Daphna Shaw, an undergraduate in Biology, was awarded a Paul A. Stewart award for her behavioral work on the Northern Mockingbird for her undergraduate thesis. [more...]