UF President Kent Fuchs Announces Plans to Transition from President to Professor
from UF News University of Florida President Kent Fuchs announced in a video released today that he is planning for this to be his last year as president, capping a tenure in which the university has joined the ranks of the nation’s very best public universities. Fuchs, 67, is serving in his eighth year after becoming the... Read More
Underbite regained: Species feared extinct is the only frog with true teeth on its lower jaw
By Jerald Pinson Florida Museum In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out of the more than 7,000 living today, has true teeth on its lower jaw. The culprit, a large marsupial frog named Gastrotheca guentheri, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in... Read More
Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul Receives ASGSR’s 2021 Founder’s Award
UF | ICBR Director and one of the Principal Investigators for the UF Space Plants Lab, Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul, was recently honored as recipient of the 2021 Founder’s Award from the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. The prestigious award celebrated Dr. Paul’s work observing stress responses and modulations of plants subjected to the novel environment... Read More
COVID Updates for UF | ICBR
[02/25/22] Dear ICBR colleagues and customers, Thank you all for your patience and we continue to navigate an environment impacted by COVID19. Although the light of the end of the tunnel seems to be expanding, there remains a recognition that we as a community can help mitigate the spread by masking indoors. Because the ICBR... Read More
UF ICBR Launches New Self-Service Timer
UF | ICBR has launched their latest version of our self-service timer. Please see below, a guide on how the new timer can benefit your experience. Accessing the Application To access the application, follow these steps: Navigate to selfservice.biotech.ufl.edu Click on Access the Self Service Suite button Authenticate with your GatorLink credentials Click on Timer Browsing... Read More
UF Researcher Dr. Marco Salemi Utilizes ICBR Genomics Expertise to Understand COVID19 Epidemiology
By Steven Madore, Ph.D. In recent years, public health emergencies caused by epidemics have led to the use of genome sequencing to identify and characterize viral pathogens. Rapid acquisition of high quality viral genomic sequences is critical for understanding viral pathogen origin, transmission and epidemiological spread. Ultimately deciphering the molecular characteristics of viruses accelerates the... Read More