Miller Lab

Welcome to the Miller Lab web pages. Our group is interested in a variety of questions from community ecology and evolutionary biology, including evolution in community contexts in microbial systems, ecology of barrier island vegetation, and even marine work on the ecology of anemones and groupers. While maintaining a basic interest in understanding how the world around us works, we are also concerned about practical applications of our research for conservation and environmental biology. We hope that you will spend some time learning about us and our research. I can be contacted by e-mail at: miller@bio.fsu.edu
Crooked Island census crew, October 15, 2016. Andrew Merwin, Kyle Spells, Abigail Pastore, Henry Gwynn, Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Natali Ramirez-Bullon, Brendan Scherer, Alice Winn, and Tom Miller. We killed it. Thanks to all for volunteering!

June 23, 2016. We werent' really sure what was going on, but we won Trivia Night at a local bar and pizza joint, while welcoming Catalina Cuellar to the lab. We are the reigning Trivia Heroes, apparently, until next week.

Kennedy Wohlgemuth proudly wearing her newly earned Miller Lab shirt. The unique design is by Will Ryan; we are thinking of suing Bernie Sanders.

Lab News

-- Crooked Island census completed on October 15, 2016. Good time had by all. Thank for volunteering!

-- PADI has made the Miller Lab very happy, providing well-deserved funding to Maggie Vogel and Will Ryan.

-- February 2016. Maggie Vogel is awarded a Florida Sea Grant to study bacterial communities on seagrass.

-- January 2016. Will, Abigail, and Tom all had talks at Asimiloar (American Society of Naturalists). Wowed the crowds.

-- Congrats to Bob Ellis for successfully defending his Ph.D.!

-- Will Ryan conducted research in Japan in the summer of 2015 with an NSF EAPSI grant to extend his anemone research to the native range of Diadumene lineata. He was sincerely thrilled by his experience (as was NSF).

-- Will Ryan is part of a creative consortium, EcoMotion, awarded a grant to make short videos of historically important papers in Ecology. Their videos can be seen at their Ecomotion website and are not to be missed.

-- First data on protozoa use of bacteria published in PlosOne with Olivia Mason's lab.

Lab videos everywhere!

Elise Gornish birthday song. Requires a fast connection to maintain our high production qualities. Click the image below. Lyrics by W. Ryan are available on request.

WFSU video from their ecology blog. Many thanks to Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV and his super fine crew. Check our Rob's other great stories and videos at the WFSU web pages.

Updated June 24, 2016