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- Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species
- £6.3m funding to develop Africa’s agriculture without losing biodiversity and harming human societies
- Combatting a serious cause of meningitis in the UK and Africa
- Using bees to deter crop-raiding elephants
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- Genes as cues: integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective
- The physiological costs of reproductive effort in male primate
- Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria- evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infection
- Keeping moving - stem cell migration in worms is controlled by genes involved in human cancer
- 9/11 memorial research reveals artificial light at night radically changes migratory bird behaviours
- Shocking gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life
- Family break-ups lead to domestic violence in fruit fly relationships
- Oxford team wins prestigious Equator Prize
- Two top wins for Zoology in the Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research awards
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- Shocking gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life
- The wintering whereabouts of penguins
- Unknown virus in ‘throwaway’ DNA discovered
- Good bacteria passed between generations benefit you more
- New rules are urgently needed to protect life in the open seas, scientists have warned
- Allopreening in birds associated with stable bonds
- Mutation hotspot in the desert
- Congratulations to Professor Sir Charles Godfray
- New project led by Oxford University’s Zoology Department to study the community ecology of the African mosquito vectors of malaria
- Earning a living in a changing climate – the plant perspective
- Oxford University collaboration wins ‘green Oscar’ for conservation
- Fake caterpillar study reveals global pattern in predation
- Doctoral Awards Ceremony
- Good Grief! Losing a friend brings wild birds closer together
- Frisky female fruit flies become more aggressive after sex
- Grace Young named as Nat Geo Emerging Explorer
- Birds choose their neighbours based on personality
- African lions face same threats as extinct Ice Age ancestors
- Wildlife summit gives reasons to be cheerful about conservation
- Women in Science: Brightening the conservation conversation
- Learn to love maths: The mathematics of why our grandmothers love us
- Should I take a selfie with a wild animal?
- Homing pigeons share our human ability to build knowledge across generations
- Smart wing rotation and trailing-edge vortices enable high frequency mosquito flight
- Who can tell us the truth about love?
- Puffins that stay close to their partner during migration have more chicks
- Peter Holland elected as 2017 Yen Kwo Yung Lecturer at CUHK
- Blood ties fuel cooperation among species, not survival instinct
- How Bees are helping farmers live alongside elephants
- Happy Anniversary to ERC
- Deadly spider’s spinning technique could inspire tougher materials
- The drone inspired by a dragonfly
- Some animals are more equal than others - to the media
- Our Planet, Our Health
- Predicting the spread of yellow fever in central Africa
- 'Good bacteria' make diseases less deadly
- Fair-weather badgers: how appearances can be deceptive in climate change ecology
- Retroviruses 'almost half a billion years old'
- Stunning image of spotty caterpillar wins photography contest for Oxford DPhil student
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- Professor Michael Bonsall
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- Kayla King wins prestigious Leverhulme Prize
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- Epi-Evo: insights into epigenetic mechanisms from evolutionary analyses
- WELDON LECTURE: Puzzles in Ecology — Extreme events, and Evolution — Menopause
- The naturally short-lived African turquoise killifish sheds light on the evolutionary basis of vertebrate ageing
- How 14 billion dollars protected Earth's species
- Tinbergen closure
- Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2017
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- Dr Timothy Hodgetts
- Using maps to defeat malaria
- NaturalMotion: from neural research to Grand Theft Auto
- Super-materials from silk
- WildCRU: balancing the needs of conservation and local people
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- The origin of the first genomes
- The Physiological Costs of Reproductive Effort in Male Primates
- Aliens may be more like us than we think
- Chimpanzees shown spontaneously 'taking turns' to solve number puzzle
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- Interview with a vampire – exploring the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio
- Professor Christine Nicol
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- ‘Friends of friends’ relationships may be simpler than they seem
- Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?
- Sheldon Lab
- Caitlin Hamilton
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- An evolution of epigenetic mechanisms through genomic analyses of nematodes
- Jason Hogg
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- Oxford Silk Group
- How behaviour changes evolution: experiments with Burying Beetles
- JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Genetic analysis of neural circuit assembly and organisation
- SOUTHWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE - Organising World Health – Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika
- Wolves for Yellowstone: predicting dynamics
- Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: wapiti, wolves, and prions
- Developing the flatworm Macrostomum lignano as a model organism for research on stem cells, regeneration and ageing
- EGI Seminar: New approaches to unraveling the complexity of animal communication
- Andrew Dixon
- Graduates: The Application Process
- Siobhán Organ
- Toni Wheeler
- Geoff Hagan
- Adrian Cooper
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- Pete Dodson
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- Two puzzles: Hurricanes and menopause
- The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
- African honeybees as a mitigation method for elephant impact on trees
- Mapping information gaps: towards and index of knowledge for every vertebrate species
- Verity Hoper
- Professor Katrina Lythgoe
- Dr Patrick Aust
- Dr Jonathan Kingdon
- Dr Elisa Granato
- Dr Amy Hinsley
- Migration makes breeding harder for seabirds
- Short-lived African turquoise killifish shed light on the evolutionary basis of vertebrate ageing
- Deputy Departmental Administrator (12 Jan)
- Replicating peregrine falcon attack strategies could help down rogue drones
- Physical contact may be good for your health, according to new research
- Kirsty Jackson
- Dr Diogo Verissimo
- Kearsey Lab
- Elton Prize awarded to Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez
- Elephant conservation debates need to be more constructive
- Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Comparative Physiology/Organismal Biology (19 Jan)
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- Seminar and statistics timetable 2017-2018
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- Benjamin Van Doren
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- Yunke Wang
- Xuefei Yao
- Sofia Castelló y Tickell
- Martyna Syposz
- Ocean Research and Conservation Group
- Alice Ekroth
- Christina Hunt
- Joseph Poore
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- Charlotte Searle
- Paolo Strampelli
- Danielle Edmunds
- Natasha Gillies
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- Asher Leeks
- Natalia Pérez-Campanero Antolín
- Thomas Meiller-Legrand
- Thom Rawson
- Melissa Arias
- Eric Ash
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- Isla Duporge
- James Kempton
- Timothy Kuiper
- Gregory Lewis
- Lynn Lewis-Bevan
- Laura Perry
- Salha Rawas
- Peter Tyrrell
- Mark Wong
- Lucinda Zawadzki
- Inés Laura Dawson
- Ryan Burke
- Iain Walmsley
- Oxford Long-Term Ecology Lab
- Jacqueline Gill
- Chuck Lee
- Lydia France
- Sarah Stiffel
- James Wheeler
- Oliver Meacock
- Charlie Ince
- Vasileios Papadogiannis
- Marie-Claire Koschowitz
- Patrick Meyer-Higgins
- Robert Dixon
- Steven Fiddaman
- Brigid Leung
- Sophia Toumazou
- EGI website
- Part-time Visual Analytics Specialist (19 Jan)
- Postdoctoral researcher: Molecular Evolution (15 Feb)
- 2x Short-term Field Assistant (18 Feb)
- Dr Egil Dröge
- How behaviour changes evolution: experiments with burying beetles
- War in Ukraine has escalated HIV spread in the country
- Stipendiary Lectureship in Biological Sciences (9 Feb)
- Pizzari Group
- Professor Sir Charles Godfray appointed Director of Oxford Martin School
- Mike Dutton
- James Walker
- Scientists uncover secret of mass mortality event in remote steppe grassland of Central Asia
- Professor Michael Bonsall appointed MPLS Associate Head of Division for Education
- Wild Sri Lankan Elephants retreat from the sound of disturbed Asian honey bees
- Nafeesa Esmail
- Willem Bonnaffe
- The bacterial Game of Thrones
- Professor Luo's assembly and organisation of neuronal circuits
- Dr Cedric Tan awarded Public Engagement with Research funding
- Oxford Tracking Group
- Global use of mosquito nets for fishing is potential threat to both humans and nature
- Professor Chris Dye gives a remarkable Southwood Memorial Lecture
- Job vacancies
- Deputy IT Manager (7 March)
- Mammals move less in human-modified landscapes
- Professor David Macdonald named as global finalist for lifetime Award for Conservation Excellence
- The evolutionary genomics of Staphylococcus aureus infection
- International Day for Women and Girls in Science
- Dr Marina Escalera Zamudio
- Mr Clive Hambler
- Wolves for Yellowstone: predicting dynamics with Mark Boyce
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution (4 Apr)
- Dr Gijsbert Werner
- Ecology on the move
- Geraldine Werhahn wins Future for Nature Award
- Achieving high-level conservation goals with connectivity (with a marine bias)
- Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity
- Evolution of pathogen plasticity
- JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1
- First detection of honey bee viruses in hoverfly (syrphid) pollinators
- Studying flatworms to understand human diseases
- Antarctic Penguin hotspot discovery fuels need for marine reserve
- Marlen Llanes
- Deputy IT Manager (March 7)
- Part-time Finance Assistant (March 14)
- Part-time Technician (March 16)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Morphological Computation (March 22)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant - New Theoretical Approaches for Tracking Transmission of Emerging Epidemics Using Heterogeneous Data Sources (March 28)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution (April 4)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Disease of Reef-forming Corals (April 4)
- Biodiversity Cluster
- How much do we know about the life history of the world's vertebrates? Dr. Dalia Conde from Species360 has an answer
- The WildCRU game: Global carnivore conservation
- Joshua Martin
- Deep-sea wildlife more vulnerable to extinction than first thought
- Dr Silvio Marchini
- Jaguars in the media: what we know and do not know about illegal jaguar trade
- A list for the Optimist: The IUCN Green List of species
- Personnel Office
- Equality & Diversity
- Skin and Fur Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach
- Dr Lucy Aplin
- Dr Rhiannon Austin
- Dr Joelene Hughes
- Dr Klodeta Kura
- Dr Jayna Raghwani
- Dr Phil Riordan
- Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney
- Dr Simon Walker
- Dr Herizo Andrianandrasana
- Armed conflicts threaten wildlife
- Researchers call for volunteers to refine mosquito-detecting app
- Computational analysis of the productivity-potential of CAM plants
- Professor Kevin Foster's 'Bacterial Warfare' project a winner in ERC €650m funding call
- Postglacial expansion of trees and declining nitrogen availability linked to plant-plant interactions, not mega-herbivores
- Professor Ben Sheldon awarded prestigious Edward O. Wilson award
- Archaeovirology: uncovering the history of viral pathogens
- Alegria Olmedo
- T-reg and T-effector subsets dynamics in viral infections
- Biology News 2018: HoD message from Professor Ben Sheldon
- Island Life: Evolution in splendid isolation
- A comparative population ecologist joins the Department of Zoology and Pembroke College
- Tracking the origin and spread of emerging epidemics
- Extremely fast dives help peregrine falcons maneuver to catch agile prey
- Dr Annette Fayet announced as a Sky Ocean Rescue Scholar
- Dr Melita Samoilys
- 3D microfluidic liver cultures are a physiological model to study Hepatitis B virus
- How can we balance people's needs with our desire to conserve biodiversity?
- Andrew Martin and William Harvey ‘highly commended’ in recent MEE Early Career Researcher Awards
- Zoology meets the Saïd Business School: insights from the Ideas to Impact programme
- Scientists identify genetic catalysts that speed up evolution of antibiotic resistance
- Of Meerkats and Microbes
- Dr Ben Lambert publishes the 'Student Guide to Bayesian Statistics'
- Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in the United States
- Liana Varlamova
- Plant relationships breakdown when they meet new ‘fungi’
- Professor Jordi Bascompte presents the architecture of biodiversity
- Seasonality and endemicity of Melioidosis: the impact of phages
- Professor Sunetra Gupta awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant
- Picking up good vibrations: Feeling the beat through the elephants feet
- The population genetics of malaria-blocking mutations
- Pond Collection at WildCRU opens
- Professor Kathy Willis elected new Principal of St Edmund Hall
- Dr Carole Adolf
- Phoebe Griffith
- Laure Cugnière
- Dr Dan Challender
- Gioele Passoni
- Peter Coals
- Professor Angela McLean awarded the Weldon Medal
- Major fossil study sheds new light on emergence of early animal life 540 million years ago
- Exploring the evolution of pathogen plasticity
- Blimp1/Prdm1: a key regulator of mammalian embryonic development
- World Of Parasites
- A general model of biological signals, from cues to handicaps
- CANCELLED: Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases
- The evolution of division of labour
- Could we work together with our bacteria to stop infection?
- Dr Jeyaraney Kathirithamby on Maria Sibylla Merian
- Martina Hadrovic Sinthalapadi
- Research reveals large differences in environmental impact for the same foods, and outlines a new approach to reduce them
- TINBERGEN LECTURE: Earth observation through animals
- Alex Chausson
- Making your research accessible to school kids
- Making your research accessible to school kids
- Professors Angela McLean and Kathy Willis appointed Honours in The Queen's Birthday Honours List
- Congratulations to Joe Wynn and Shano Caro, recognised at ZSL Scientific Awards
- Parasites under the spotlight: applications of vibrational spectroscopy to parasitology