Research Group News:
- The Miller Lab has become the Biotic Interactions Group at its new home, the University of Cambridge
- November 2024: Christine is off to give talks at the Entomological Society of America annual meeting and the University of Minnesota
- October 2024: Christine travelled to Australia for the ISBE conference and delivered a presentation on the evolution of weaponry in the leaf-footed bugs. It was so nice to meet up so many old friends and collaborators at the conference.
- September 2024: BIG NEWS! Christine Miller has been appointed as the Professor of Biotic Interactions at the University of Cambridge, effective October 1st. NSF-sponsored research continues at the University of Florida through 2026. We are looking for MPhil and PhD students to start at the University of Cambridge October 2025 -- see the Opportunities page!
- September 2024: Postdoctoral Associate Christina Salerno and NSF REU student Grace Bane have travelled to the UK to work in collaboration with Prof. Federle on the biomechanics of insect weapons.
- August 2024: The Miller Lab set up shop at the Florida Natural History Museum for several days to encourage public interaction as we go about our research. Activities include insect dissections, bug fights, pin the leg on the leaf-footed bug (a depiction!), and much more.
- July 2024: Christine Miller has been promoted to the rank of Professor at the University of Florida.
- June 2024: James Boothroyd has received a $1000 Sigma-Xi Grant in Aid of Research to use in understanding the influence of diet on life-history trade-offs.
- May 2024: Congratulations to Yichen Li for successfully defending her M.S. thesis.
- May 2024: Christine Miller received the "Golden Gator" award from the University of Florida, otherwise known as the UF Large Grant Leadership Award.
- April 2024: Grace Bane and Giovanna Avellar Figueredo have accepted National Science Foundation REU positions in the laboratory. Congratulations!
- March 2024: We study the evolutionary assembly of sexually selected weapons in our recent article, the evolution of multi-component weapons in the leaf-footed bugs. Now published in Evolution, and we got the cover.
- March 2024: James Boothroyd, Ph.D Candidate in our research group, has received the university-wide Graduate Student Teaching Award. This is an incredible accomplishment. Congratulations to James on a job well done.
- March 2024: Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Giovanna Avellar Figueredo, for acceptance into the UF University Scholars Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. We look forward to working with you on some exciting projects.
- January 2024: Yichen Li, James Boothroyd, and Christine Miller delivered research presentations at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in Seattle.
