Plant biologist Pam Soltis receives SURA’s Distinguished Scientist Award
University of Florida plant biologist Pam Soltis will receive the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award, given annually…
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Evolution of China’s flowering plants shows East-West divide between lineages
An international team of scientists has mapped the evolutionary relationships between China’s 30,000 flowering plant species, uncovering a distinct regional…
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Far from family: Red mangroves on Cape Canaveral related to Gulf species
Richard Hodel, a biology doctoral student in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, explains how a recent Nature Scientific…
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Plant biologist Doug Soltis elected to National Academy of Sciences
Plant biologist Doug Soltis has been elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an achievement considered one…
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Pam and Doug Soltis elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Plant biologists Pam and Doug Soltis are among this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American…
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2017 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants
Congratulations to our grad students! Four Florida Museum grad students have been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants. These are…
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Our 2017 NSF GRFP recipients
Several of our current or former students received NSF GRFPs this year. The National Science Foundation had more than 13,000 applications,…
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On the defense
Harmful plants have evolved to protect themselves from predators It’s one of society’s hotly debated questions: ketchup or mustard? For…
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Tree of Life
Distinguished professor Doug Soltis discusses his development of the Tree of Life project. After 30 years of research, Soltis has…
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Pam and Doug awarded the Darwin-Wallace medal
Soltis Lab Blog Pam and Doug Soltis were awarded the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London in…
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