Company Profile
University of Florida
Company Overview
The Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida is committed to excellence in education, research and service to the community. B.S. degrees are offered through both the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are offered through the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
The building is housed in Building 981 on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fl. This 66,000 square foot building was constructed in 1994 and is thoroughly equipped with offices, classroom laboratories and with the instruments and resources necessary for research in modern biochemistry and molecular biology.
With an enrollment of approximately 1000 undergraduate majors, we are one of the largest undergraduate science programs at the University of Florida, and one of the largest microbiology programs in the country. There are over 50 students in our graduate program with the majority of them pursuing the Ph.D. degree. All full-time students in our graduate program are supported by assistantships or fellowships.
Currently there are 25 tenure eligible faculty positions staffed, 4 non-tenure eligible faculty, 17 post-doctoral fellows, over 50 graduate students, more than 20 office and technical staff, and 2 full time academic advisors. Most faculty are involved in both teaching and research programs that complement one another. The faculty’s research programs span areas of broad interest in the cellular and molecular aspects bacterial, plant and animal life functions. Areas of research include:
Microbial physiology, metabolism and regulation
Molecular biology
Molecular genetics
Immunology
Virology
Host-pathogen interactions
Cellular ultrastructure
Environmental microbiology
Company History
While the University of Florida traces its roots to 1853 and the establishment of the state-funded East Florida Seminary, UF/IFAS traces its roots to the Morrill Act of 1862, which established the land-grant university system.
On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law what is generally referred to as the Land-Grant Act. The new piece of legislation, which was introduced by U.S. Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, granted each state 30,000 acres of public land for each senator and representative under apportionment based on the 1860 census.
Proceeds from the sale of these lands were to be invested in a perpetual endowment fund that would provide support for colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts in each of the states.
The establishment of Florida Agricultural College at Lake City in 1884 under the Morrill Act marked the beginning of what became the College of Agriculture of the University of Florida in 1906.
Florida’s governing body for higher education created the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in April 1964, by reorganizing UF’s College of Agriculture, School of Forestry, Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Cooperative Extension Service into a single unit.
Today, UF/IFAS includes:
* Extension offices in each of the state’s 67 counties
* 12 Research and Education Centers with a total of 20 locations (including demonstration sites) throughout Florida
* College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
* School of Forest Resources and Conservation
* School of Natural Resources and Environment
* Center for Tropical Agriculture
* portions of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Florida Sea Grant Program, and International Programs.
Benefits
To view benefits at UF, please visit: http://hr.ufl.edu/benefits-rewards/my-benefits/eligibility/faculty/non-clinical/