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Four UF/IFAS faculty members elected AAAS fellows, breaking previous record

by Samantha Murray
November 24, 2020

Four UF/IFAS faculty members have been named 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This surpasses the record set last year when three UF/IFAS faculty members became fellows in a single year. Election ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching, Water
Tags: AAAS Fellows, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Animal Sciences, CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Eric Triplett, Geoffrey Dahl, J. Scott Angle, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Plant Pathology, Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Rosemary Loria, Scott Angle

Study: Microbes escape wildland fires on smoke particle ‘life rafts’

by Samantha Murray
October 28, 2020

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire — and also lots of microorganisms, according to a new study from the University of Florida. For the first time, researchers have measured the number of microbes in smoke from fires in wilderness areas, ... READ MORE

Category: Forests, NATURAL RESOURCES, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Brent Christner, CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, News, Ordway-Swisher Biological Station

Life in space – UF/IFAS faculty awarded three grants for further exploration

by Tory Moore
October 15, 2020

The NASA Biological and Physical Sciences Division’s Space Biology Program recently announced 18 grants that will advance our understanding of how living systems respond to life in space. Three of those grants were awarded to UF/IFAS faculty ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Department Of Microbiology And Cell Science, Grants, Horticultural Sciences, Horticultural Sciences Department, Mars, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, NASA

Microbiology and cell science chair on diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education

by Samantha Murray
September 21, 2020

In late August, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recognized Eric Triplett, chair of the UF/IFAS department of microbiology and cell science, with the William A. Hinton Award for Advancement of a Diverse Community of Microbiologists. In ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Diversity Equity And Inclusion, Eric Triplett, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, News

UF researchers ask, ‘What if oncologists thought like ecologists?’

by Samantha Murray
September 10, 2020

Above: Like ants in a colony, cancer cells must communicate with each other to survive. Getty Images What do wildlife and cancer cells have in common? Quite a lot, argues a new article authored by University of Florida researchers. The ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: Cancer, Madan Oli, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Monika Oli, News, Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

UF/IFAS faculty to use $141M in research funding to improve corn, manage citrus greening, suppress mosquito-borne diseases and more

by Brad Buck
September 2, 2020

Scientists at UF/IFAS are using this year’s allotment of $141 million in research funding to develop better sweet corn, improve cow-calf breeding, make further progress toward controlling citrus greening disease and more. Robert Gilbert, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Animal Sciences, Citrus Greening Disease, Cow-calf, Funding, Grants, Horticultural Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Mosquitoes, Nifa, Peppers, Plant Pathology, Research, Robert Gilbert, Sweet Corn, Usda

UF professor earns national award for innovative research

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 12, 2020

By RUTH BORGER LAKE ALFRED, Fla. -- Researcher. Scholar. Change agent. Nian Wang, a professor at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, has been recognized for all of these roles by the American Phytopathological ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: American Phytopathological Society, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Gene Editing, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Nian Wang, Ruth Allen Award

University of Florida researchers find promising new treatment in fight to beat citrus greening

by Brad Buck
May 6, 2020

By RUTH BORGER GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers have discovered another possible solution to the plague of citrus greening that is impacting Florida’s citrus groves. This new information adds to the growing portfolio ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Citrus Greening Disease, Citrus Research And Education Center, Claudio Gonzalez, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Treatment

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

So-Called ‘Longevity Vitamin’ Might Hold More Importance than Scientists Thought

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
September 5, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research from a University of Florida microbiologist shows that disease-causing bacteria compete with their human hosts for a key micronutrient. Although queuine (pronounced KYOO-in) has been identified as essential ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Bacteria, Microbiology, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Micronutrient, Research, Valérie De Crécy-Lagard

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