UVa Biology

08/28/2026

Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s SPARC Grant recipients, awarding funding to 20 faculty members for research, scholarship, creative work, and innovative projects across multiple disciplines. Biology is well‑represented among the honorees, with Nicholas Landry and Robert Cox receiving support for new research initiatives.

SPARC grants support research, collaboration and innovative public-facing projects across the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

08/25/2026

Congratulations Biology grad students David Hawtoff (Dan McIntyre's Lab) and Katia Korzeniwsky (David M. Parichy's Lab) of the Integrative Biology track. They have been awarded NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

07/28/2026

How do animals sense light without always "seeing" it? In a new Knowable Magazine article, UVA Professor Iggy Provencio explains how opsins enable everything from sight to light-driven behaviors, revealing the surprising ways animals interact with their environment.

From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of jobs in nature beyond helping creatures to see

05/27/2026

New research from the lab of Drew Schield, offers insights into the process biologists call the speciation continuum — the gradual, and often messy, process whereby one species slowly loses the ability to interbreed with another.

UVA researchers use rattlesnakes to investigate one of evolutionary biology’s oldest puzzles.

05/19/2026

05/13/2026

Congratulations to the Winners of the 42nd Annual Richard D. Katz Undergraduate Biology Symposium - From left to right in the photo, taking First Place was Lilah Elhady (Are cytoplasmic factors responsible for male sterility in Campanula americana?; Galloway Lab). Second Place was won by Madeline Livingston (Genetic diversity of the meiotic recombination protein PRDM9 in rattlesnakes ; Schield Lab), with Margaret Berberian taking Third Place (Perturbing IL-15-mediated self-renewal of human memory CD8+ cells; Luckey Lab). https://bio.as.virginia.edu/congratulations-winners-42nd-annual-richard-d-katz-undergraduate-biology-symposium