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Three UF/IFAS Faculty Members Elected 2019 AAAS Fellows, Largest Number Yet

by Tom Nordlie

November 26, 2019

Three faculty members with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have been elected 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, according ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AAAS, AAAS Fellows, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Karen Garrett, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Plant Pathology, Senthold Asseng, Wayne Nicholson

UF study: Some Earth bacteria survive and grow at extremely low pressure; may aid Mars research

by Patricia Standeford

January 7, 2013

Captions at bottom. Click here and here for high resolution versions. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers have discovered for the first time that some Earth bacteria can live under the same low pressure conditions found ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Andrew Schuerger, Astrobiology, Bacteria, Carnobacterium, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Mars, NASA, Plant Pathology, PNAS, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, Serratia, Serratia Liquefaciens, University Of Florida, Wayne Nicholson

Space Station Experiment to Test Bacteria Hitchhiking to the Red Planet

by BLOGS.IFAS

December 5, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- If a trip to Mars seems like it would be a tough journey, imagine what it would be like on the outside of the spaceship. Earth bacteria can be extraordinarily tough—rugged enough, in fact, to survive on the outside of ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: NASA, Wayne Nicholson

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