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The evolutionary genetics of industrial melanism – an unfolding story

Insights into the epidemiology of dengue and Zika from maps and models

Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: 'Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain'

Ecological dynamics in a non-stationary world

Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents

The sweet taste of nectar: novel mechanisms for encoding taste revealed in bees

Haploid gametic selection in animals and its evolutionary consequences

How trypanosomatid parasites drive their swimming: New lessons from new light microscopy approaches

Development, selection, and species diversification: Semi-aquatic bugs as models

Origins of diversity in islands: The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly

Insights from ancient DNA into the evolutionary history of M. tuberculosis

Using structured population models to help understand individuals and communities

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

How large animals shape ecosystem and planetary function

Adapting protein quality control for intervention in immunity and neurodegenerative diseases

Challenges for bees in a changing world

Parallel Evolution and the Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Viruses

Neural circuit and genetic bases of behaviour in the planktonic larvae of Platynereis

Optimal decision making to control ecological systems

Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in a population with severe inbreeding depression

Reverse-engineering animal flight: unravelling the evolutionary co-tuning of physics, physiology, and behaviour

Environmental DNA for wildlife epidemiology and outbreak investigation

WELDON PRIZE LECTURE: Immunology that counts: the population biology of immunity

Using mechanistic experiments and macroecological models to understand biodiversity in a changing world

Sheep in Wolves Clothing: Insect-specific viruses of mosquitoes exploited as novel platforms for diagnostics and vaccines

Understanding and controlling the spread of zoonoses – from bovine TB to Ebola

A long way from home: four years studying nature's greatest travellers

Understanding and controlling the spread of disease within and between animal populations

Saving the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka

Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in the United States

Parasites under the spotlight: applications of vibrational spectroscopy to parasitology

TINBERGEN LECTURE: Earth observation through animals

CANCELLED: Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases

JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1

The population genetics of malaria-blocking mutations

Evolution of pathogen plasticity

Seasonality and endemicity of Melioidosis: the impact of phages

3D microfluidic liver cultures are a physiological model to study Hepatitis B virus

Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity

T-reg and T-effector subsets dynamics in viral infections

Achieving high-level conservation goals with connectivity (with a marine bias)

Archaeovirology: uncovering the history of viral pathogens

Skin and Fur Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach

Mapping information gaps: towards and index of knowledge for every vertebrate species

Developing the flatworm Macrostomum lignano as a model organism for research on stem cells, regeneration and ageing

Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: wapiti, wolves, and prions

Wolves for Yellowstone: predicting dynamics

The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections

SOUTHWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE - Organising World Health ­– Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika

JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Genetic analysis of neural circuit assembly and organisation

How behaviour changes evolution: experiments with Burying Beetles

EGI Seminar: New approaches to unraveling the complexity of animal communication

The naturally short-lived African turquoise killifish sheds light on the evolutionary basis of vertebrate ageing

Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?

WELDON LECTURE: Puzzles in Ecology — Extreme events, and Evolution — Menopause

Epi-Evo: insights into epigenetic mechanisms from evolutionary analyses

Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria- evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infection

The physiological costs of reproductive effort in male primate

Genes as cues: integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective

The Department of Zoology is at the centre of Oxford University's research and teaching in biology

SOUTHWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE - Organising World Health – Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika