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Nico Cellinese

Photograph of an island and low sand bar.

Awards & Honors

Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history

June 6, 2024

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants…
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A scientist

Collections

Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium

October 21, 2020

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the…
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passionflower

News in Brief

New books present the PhyloCode, an evolution-based system for naming organisms

June 8, 2020

Move over, Linnaeus: There’s a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years…
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bulbs in pots

Evolution

Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers

March 9, 2020

Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of resources, bulbs can hunker down during…
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woman kneels on a mountainside to collect a plant

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum botany doctoral graduate wins Cooley Award

August 16, 2018

The American Society of Plant Taxonomists has selected Rebecca Stubbs as its 2018 George R. Cooley Award recipient. Considered one…
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Campanulaceae clade diagram

Grants & Initiatives

New NSF project aims to help scientists navigate the tree of life

June 18, 2015

A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth…
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Mediterranean Basin

Climate Change

Island isolation, warming climate shape Mediterranean Basin evolution

January 14, 2015

From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the Greek Islands, Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Nico Cellinese has searched…
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pressed bellflower specimen

Awards & Honors

Scientist wins NSF CAREER Award for genetic plant research

January 7, 2010

Nico Cellinese, assistant curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History herbarium and informatics, has received a prestigious $865,000 CAREER…
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