Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for University of Florida Department of Biology is a 41-PI network with 22 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (27% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Plant and animal studies as the leading topic (4% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Sixue Chen (20.7 weighted works; Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance). The clearest collaboration lines are Ryan A. St Laurent and Akito Y. Kawahara (10 shared works, weight 8.2). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 10.7, around Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, led by Sixue Chen, Pamela S. Soltis, David C. Blackburn.