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Suzanne Young, Jason Rohr and Valerie (Jody) Harwood co-author paper on vancomycin-resistant enterococci bacterial release into the environment in the 2014 St. Petersburg, FL sewage spill
Read about their study here.
Lynn (Marty) Martin and Sarah Burgan publish study on host competence: an organismal trait to integrate immunology and epidemiology
Read about their study here.
Valerie (Jody) Harwood publishes review study on current status of marker genes of Bacteriodes and related taxa for identifying sewage pollution in environmental waters
Read about her study here.
Jason Rohr authors study comparing pros and cons of ecological risk assessment based on data from different levels of biological organization
Read the review article here.
Edward Haller joins group of USF researchers in groundbreaking study on effects of ischemic stroke on spinal cord
Read the article here.
Jeffrey Scales, Charlotte Stinson and Stephen Deban compare muscle architecture and elastic and nonelastic feeding movements in two salamander species
Read about their study here.
Chantale Bégin recently took her class of 20 USF students in Tropical Marine Ecosystems to the British Virgin Islands for hands-on experiences in learning about marine ecosystems
Read about their trip here.
Brad Gemmell's studies on jellyfish locomotion featured in an article in Scientific American Online
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Jeremy Cohen, David Civitello, Amber Brace, Erin Feichtinger, Nicole Ortega, Jason Richardson, Erin Sauer and Jason Rohr publish a study on how spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions
Read about their study here.
Gordon Fox interviewed on WMNF 88.1 FM Radio about climate change and spread of animal and plant diseases
Read about his interview, or listen to it, here.
Sarah Burgan and Lynn (Marty) Martin join Stephanie Gervasi and others in discovery that mosquitos feed more and breed more when feeding on hosts under stress
Read about their study here.
Through the donations of Tom and Beverly Porter, USF Integrative Biology students experience valuable research opportunities
Read about the story here.
Jason Rohr receives USF 2016 Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award
Read about his awardhere.
USF and the Florida Board of Governors establishes the USF Center for Infectious Disease Ecology Research (CIDER)
Read about the Center here.
Chantale Bégin co-authors a study on the effects of protection and sediment stress on coral reefs in Saint Lucia
Read about her study here.
Lynn (Marty) Martin co-authors paper on how malaria infection negatively affects feather growth in house sparrows
Read about his study here.
Jason Rohr co-authors study on how foraging modality and plasticity in foraging traits determine the strength of competition between carnivorous plants, spiders and toads.
Read their paper here.
Philip Motta is featured in a story about king mackerel feeding habits in Florida Sportsman magazine.
Read the story here.
Chantale Bégin and Christopher Osovitz are given Project STEER (Systemic Transformation of Education through Evidence-Based Reforms) awards for course redesign proposals to enhance curriculum to improve STEM student retention rate
Read about their awards here.
Lynn (Marty) Martin co-authors paper on host behavior-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behavior and disease ecology
Read about his study here.
Mary Mangiapia and Kathleen (KT) Scott's paper on energetic expense of gammaproteobacteria (CBB) and epsilonproteobacteria (rCAC) creating biomass selected Editor's Choice in FEMS Microbiology Letters.
Read their paper here.
Gordon Fox and Kathyleen (KT) Scott co-author paper on dissolved inorganic carbon uptake in Thiomicrospira crunogena XCL-2 gammaproteobacteria
Read about their study here.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINARS
The IB Seminar Series will be held in the CAS Multidisciplinary Complex (CMC 147), 3:30PM on Thursdays. (CMC is along Leroy Collins Blvd, parking lot 2A/B, near BSF) MAP
Science Teaching Accelerated Master's Program
- Bachelors in Biology and accelerated Masters in Teaching in five years.
- Scholarships available.
Internships for Undergraduates in Science Education Research
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