Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall, Rm. 262
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1943
dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu
Twitter: @davidcblackburn
Collections & Programs
openVertebrate (oVert) Project
Other Affiliations
Associate Chair, Department of Natural History
University Term Professor, 2021–2024
Affiliate Faculty in UF’s Department of Biology, Tropical Conservation and Development program, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Center for African Studies.
Lead PI, oVert Thematic Collections Network
Fellow and Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences
Education
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2008–2011, University of Kansas
Ph.D., 2008, Harvard University
A.B., 2001, University of Chicago
Research Interests
Diversity, evolution, and conservation of amphibians, especially African frogs
Publications
Recent Research News
Wormlike animals are first amphibians shown to pass microbes to their offspring
Caecilians are an elusive type of amphibian that primarily live underground and look like a cross between a worm and…
David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum curator of herpetology David Blackburn as one of its 2023…
A hard pillbug to swallow: First X-rays of frog feeding show how they consume prey
The phrase “to swallow one’s tongue” has been around since at least the 1880s and has been repurposed in several…