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The
Miller
Lab

Located at the Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida

Recent news from our laboratory: 
  • October 2023: A hearty welcome to Christina Salerno, a new postdoctoral associate in the lab!
  • September 2023: Congratulations to James Boothroyd for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy.
  • August 2023: We are busy visiting the Florida outdoors to collect prickly pear for all our (exciting) upcoming projects. All this planning, and now its time to get these projects going!
  • ​August 2023: Alva Mihalik joins the lab as a intern for the next year. Welcome! 
  • July 2023: Dr. Miller is back in Florida after a terrific year-long sabbatical in the U.K.
  • ​June 2023: Dr. Christine Miller visited the Institute of Functional Genomics in Lyon, France and the University of East Anglia  to deliver hour-long seminars on her research.
  • June 2023: Just published - How does the timing of weapon loss influence reproductive traits and trade-offs in the insect Narnia femorata? 
  • May 2023: Dr. Miller delivered research seminars at the University of Plymouth and University College London.
  • April 2023: We are advertising multiple positions! See the Opportunities page for more details. 
  • February 2023: Are you an early career faculty or advanced postdoc working in the field of animal behavior? If so, consider registering for the Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) 2023 workshop. Gail Patricelli, Karan Odom, and I are organizing the events this year!
  • January 2023: Yichen Li presented a poster at the SICB 2023 meeting in Austin, Texas.
  • November 2022: Congratulations to Yichen Li for successfully completing her M.S. proposal on the effect of male-male competition on female injury. 
  • November 2022: Dr. Christine Miller spoke 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 is in 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.​
Leaf-footed bugs, illustration by Chen Zha
UF Entomology and Nematology
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The Miller Lab at the University of Florida/IFAS
Gainesville, FL USA 32611

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