Located at the Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida
Recent news from our laboratory:
January 2023: Yichen Li presented a poster at the SICB 2023 meeting in Austin, Texas. She got a chance to meet our former lab members there including Zachary Emberts, Lauren Cirino, and Ummat Somjee.
November 2022: Congratulations to Yichen Li for successfully completing her M.S. thesis proposal on the effect of male-male competition on female injury.
November 2022: Dr. Christine Miller presented an hour-long seminar as part of the Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge.
October 2022: Sam Zlotnik successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and is soon moving on to a career in science-writing.
August 2022: Dr. Christine Miller and her family moved to Cambridge, UK for a year-long academic sabbatical.
August 2022: The Miller Lab has received a $1.2M National Science Foundation award to advance understanding on the evolution of animal weaponry.
July 2022: Our National Science Foundation REU students from Summer 2021 have published on their research, providing valuable information on a fascinating species.
June 2022: Congratulations to James Boothroyd, Kaili Sherman, Merrick Graham, Claire Parker, Gayatri Raina, and Yichen Li for their outstanding poster presentations at the Florida Entomological Society conference.
May 2022: Gayatri Raina and Yichen Li join us to work on competitive injuries in leaf-footed bugs.
April 2022: Benjamin Jarrett, Human Frontiers Fellow, arrives for three months of experimentation with leaf-footed bugs.
April 2022: Christine travelled virtually to the University of Georgia to deliver a seminar on the evolution of insect weaponry
March 2022: Zachary Emberts, former Ph.D. student in the lab, has accepted a faculty position at Oklahoma State University.
February 2022: Congratulations to Ummat Somjee, former M.S. and Ph.D. student in the lab, for receiving the Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin.