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Grant supports study of generic versus brand-name common heart medicine

13 May 2015
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University of Florida Health researchers and Genetics Institute members, Lari Cavallari and Julie Johnson, received a $2.3 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate whether a generic form of a common heart medicine works as well as the...
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UF Space Plants article is journal’s most highly accessed and mentioned

16 Feb 2015
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Robert Ferl and Anna Lisa-Paul, University of Florida Genetics Institute members and plant molecular biologists, were recognized for publishing the most highly accessed paper in the history of the journal BMC Plant Biology. Their research was published in 2012 and has also been...
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Robert Cousins, PhD

28 Jan 2015
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Genetics Institute member Robert Cousins, Boston Family Professor of Nutrition and director of the Center for Nutritional Studies in the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)....
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OUR MISSION

The UFGI is an interdisciplinary program that seeks to promote excellence in the areas of genetics and genomics at the University of Florida by
–Building community, facilitating collaboration and creating opportunities for intellectual exchanges among investigators working in diverse taxonomic systems but with a common set of approaches in genetics and genomics.
–Supporting recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty in the areas of genetic and genomics.
–Supporting graduate education in the areas of genetics and genomics.
–Enhancing the ability of researchers at the University of Florida to compete for multidisciplinary research grants in the area of genetics and genomics.

GENETICS & GENOMICS GRADUATE PROGRAM

We believe good geneticists are integrative geneticists– incorporating many different genetic sub-fields into their work. Interests in the faculty span from basic research to applied work. Graduate students are currently pursuing the following:
–Pharmacotherapy
–Biology
–Anthropology
–Horticultural Sciences
–Evolutionary Genetics