Plant researcher and UFGI member leads $1.2 million biodiversity project
Plant researcher and University of Florida Genetics Institute member Pamela Soltis will lead a team of researchers in a $1.2 million project... Read More
Rolf Renne, PhD
Rolf Renne, University of Florida professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Genetics Institute member, was recently awarded a 2014 UF Research... Read More
Kawahara and team create “Tree of Lepidoptera”
In the first study of its kind, a team of University of Florida scientists used large-scale, next generation DNA sequencing to trace... Read More
PALB2 gene mutation linked to increased risk of breast cancer
Scientists exploring gene mutations and relationships with breast cancer have discovered a mutation that can cause the risk of breast cancer to... Read More
UFGI members named top global researchers in Type 1 diabetes
Two University of Florida Genetics Institute members, Mark Atkinson, PhD, and Desmond Schatz, MD, have been named in the top 10 global... Read More
Findings could help put halt to potato blight
University of Florida Genetics Institute member and Plant Pathology assistant professor, Erica Goss, has pinpointed the origin of the pathogen that caused... Read More
Comb Jelly genome solved and new neural pathways uncovered
Leonid Moroz and his team have decoded the genomes for 10 comb jelly species, revealing the jellies’ distinct neurogenic, immune and developmental... Read More
UF receives $1 million to study skin regeneration without scarring
The University of Florida has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to tackle one of health care’s greatest... Read More
Student Bret Boyd to speak at International Conference on Phthiraptera
Bret Boyd has been asked to speak on his dissertation research in the Symposium on Genomics of Lice and their Microbes at... Read More
Student Patrick Thiaville presents at BioMed Conference, awarded fellowship
In December 2013, Patrick Thiaville presented at the 23rd Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona BioMed Conference, “Gene Translation: Fidelity and Quality Control.”... Read More