Department of Biology – The University of Texas at Arlington

UTA’s Marquerite Herzog awarded 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Marquerite Herzog, a biology doctoral student at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study the molecular genetic basis of changes in behavior seen when an individual loses during an aggressive conflict.

PASSY STUDYING THE CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES OF RARITY IN FRESHWATER SPECIES

A biologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is studying why the populations of some species are more adversely affected than others by various harmful factors in freshwater environments.

The Mydlarz Lab performs fieldwork in coral reefs

The Mydlarz Lab has traveled to Roatan, Honduras the last two years to conduct surveys to determine coral disease.

UTA biology doctoral graduate receives prestigious NSF postdoctoral fellowship

A recent doctoral graduate in quantitative biology from The University of Texas at Arlington has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue postdoctoral research focusing on limb loss in a group of Australian lizards.

Biology Department faculty awarded funding for student success initiatives

The College of Science recently awarded Dr. Jill DeVito, Dr. Elijah Wostl, Rachel Wostl, and Melissa Walsh funding for their student success initiatives.

Shannon Beston, doctoral biology student

UTA doctoral student in biology earns prestigious AAUW fellowship

Shannon Beston, a doctoral student in biology at The University of Texas at Arlington, has received a prestigious award to fund her dissertation project in which she is evaluating the ecological drivers of eye and brain size evolution in a species of fish.

UTA researcher wins five-year, $1.8 million grant to find new ways to boost immune response against bacteria

A UTA researcher has won a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to look at new ways to harness the body’s own defense responses to fight pathogens like bacteria.

Doctoral student in biology wins prestigious NSF research fellowship grant

Doctoral student Kathleen Currie has received a prestigious grant to fund her research in genetic variation in whiptail lizards.

Walsh Lab produces first evidence that environmental stress causes behavioral changes in future generations

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have now provided the first evidence that stable environments like constant predator threats, not unstable conditions, generate these non-genetic “trans-generational responses” in the next generation.

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