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SATIB Trust Award

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Loveridge (WildCRU) for winning the SATIB Trust Award (and a Landrover defender) in recognition of his dedicated work in understanding lion biology and supporting conservation in Africa.

Research News

A study published in PLoS Biology, lead author AD Rogers, describing the first deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities from the Southern Ocean and implications for vent biogeography.

Research News

Research from the Oxford Silk Group is featured in the BBSRC Industrial Biotechnology News for their new breed of exotic materials for biomedicine based on silkworm and spider silk.

Queen's Anniversary Prize

Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. 

The Prize, announced on the evening of 24 November 2011 at St James’s Palace, London, is given in acknowledgement of WildCRU’s outstanding work in wildlife and environmental conservation.

 

Research News

A study published in Advanced Materials by Chris Holland, Fritz Vollrath and in collaboration with the University of Sheffield has demonstrated that natural silks are a thousand times more efficient than common plastics when it comes to forming fibres.