![Close-up image of an ant's head showing its compound eyes and mandibles against a blurred blue background.](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/Nash_Turley_front-1-326x245.jpg)
Articles by Adriana De Bekker
![Close-up image of an ant's head showing its compound eyes and mandibles against a blurred blue background.](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/Nash_Turley_front-1-326x245.jpg)
![A spider hangs upside down from a thin twig against a blurred green background.](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/Ophio_infected_ant-001-326x245.jpg)
![Two people in a forested area, one examines plants closely, the other writes in a notebook.](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/survey_notes_field-1-326x245.jpg)
![A dried ant hangs from a plant's stem, with a pink tagged label attached to it.](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/ant_tag_in_field-2-326x245.jpg)
![UCF STEM Virtual Chat Series](https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/debekkerlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-9.41.15-PM-326x245.png)
STEM Virtual Chat Series
Because of COVID19 all the iSTEM affiliated camps have been cancelled for the Summer. Instead, the STEM Virtual Chat Series allows high school students the […]
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NSF CAREER Award
Last Friday, we celebrated our NSF CAREER award! This award will fund our lab for the next five years to investigate the molecular aspects of […]