Welcome to the Department of Biology at USF.
The Department of Biology offers programs leading to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Biology. The department is composed of diverse faculty with research interests
ranging from Conservation Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology to Microbiology, Cell
Biology and Molecular Biology. The faculty is organized into the Department of Cell
Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology and the Department of Integrative Biology.
Cactoblastis cactorum larva - Stiling Lab
The more than 30 faculty members in the department have dual commitments to excellence
in teaching and research. Interests of our faculty range from cellular/molecular
biology to ecology, evolutionary genetics and biology, to name a few. Research and
teaching facilities include: animal and aquarium rooms, a DNA sequencing facility,
walk-in environmental chambers, incubators, a darkroom, and a
microscope facility (pdf) containing confocal, transmission electron, and
scanning electron microscopes.
The Department houses the second largest herbarium in the state of Florida with
extensive collections of semi-tropical and tropical plants. A Botanical Garden on
the campus is used for both teaching and research. A 500-acre Ecological Research
Area of several distinct communities in which long term ecological and conservation
projects are conducted, adjoins the campus. The Department has vans, trucks and
boats for field research. There is access to a large numberof terrestrial, marine
and freshwater communities in the Tampa Bay area.
The Department of Biology is housed in four buildings on the Tampa campus. Some
faculty offices and laboratory facilities are located in the Science Center (SCA),
Bio-Science Building, (BSF), Life Sciences Building (LIF), and in the Life Sciences
Annex (LSA). The Graduate Office for the Divison of Integrative Biology office is
housed in the Science Center (SCA 112C) and the Graduate Office for the Division
of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology is in the Bio-science Building
(BSF 221).
Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (CMMB)
Research and teaching in the CMMB division emphasizes cellular processes in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes with an increasing focus on biotechnology and biomedical research.
Faculty research interests include genomics, cell signaling, biosensors, immunology,
cancer genetics, evolutionary genetics, Alzheimer's disease, pathogenic microbiology
and developmental biology.
Department of Integrative Biology (IB)
Research and teaching in the IB Division emphasizes organismal interactions and
adaptations to the environment. We take a modern interdisciplinary approach to understand
the interactions at many levels from cells to organisms to populations to communities
to landscapes. Faculty research interests include: marine and freshwater ecology;
restoration ecology; population ecology; plant-animal interactions; community ecology;
plant systematics; conservation biology; ecotoxicology; biomechanics and functional
morphology; environmental microbiology; microbial physiology; and gene transfer.
Please browse our web site or contact us for any information you may need.
Susan Bell Co-Chair Department
of Biology, Director Department of Integrative Biology
SCA 112B, Phone:(813) 974-6210
James Garey Co-Chair Department
of Biology, Director Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
BSF 202, Phone (813) 974-8434