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Posted on Thursday 4 October 2018
Professor Reidun Twarock has received two awards for her work in Mathematical Virology.
Posted on Tuesday 2 October 2018
Researchers from the Department of Biology have secured funding for an international collaboration project.
Posted on Tuesday 25 September 2018
The Department of Biology has placed 9th in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Posted on Friday 7 September 2018
Researcher in the Department of Biology has won a prestigious award from the Royal Entomological Society.
Posted on Tuesday 4 September 2018
The Biology Environmental Group cut waste for the University by working with Commercial Services to end black plastic coffee cup lids on campus
Posted on Thursday 30 August 2018
Scientists have determined the DNA code of the opium poppy genome, uncovering key steps in how the plant evolved to produce the pharmaceutical compounds used to make vital medicines.
Upcoming seminars
Statistical techniques to infer ancestral history and selection using genome-wide DNA
1.00PM, K/018
Dr Garrett Hellenthal, UCL
Dawn of the dead: cell death by the zombie protein, MLKL
1.00PM, K018
James M Murphy, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia 3052
Cryo-Em structure of an endogenous late pre-40S ribosomal subunit
1.00PM, K018
Dr Emma Thomson, Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids, The University of Sheffield
1.00PM, K018
Time, sleep and memory: How light affects our physiology and behaviour
1.00PM, K018
Stuart Peirson, University of Oxford
Stick or twist? Decision-making and risk-aversion in plant development
1.00PM, K018
Dr Tom Bennett, Leeds University.
Cetacean vocal culture and social learning
1.00PM, K018 Lecture Theatre (Dianna Bowles Theatre), Biology Building, Campus West
Dr Ellen Garland, St Andrews
Coincidence detection tailors macrophage responses to inflammatory signals
1.00PM, K018
Dr Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic