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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
• Wytham Woods - The Laboratory with Leaves
• 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
• Tinbergen Update
• Outreach for Schools & Public
• Athena Swan
• Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?
• 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
• Graduates: The Application Process
• The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
• Mapping information gaps: towards and index of knowledge for every vertebrate species
• Deputy Departmental Administrator (12 Jan)
• Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Comparative Physiology/Organismal Biology (19 Jan)
• Seminar and statistics timetable 2017-2018
• Behaviour
• Ecology and Conservation
• Evolution and Development
• Infectious Disease
• EGI website
• Part-time Visual Analytics Specialist (19 Jan)
• Postdoctoral researcher: Molecular Evolution (15 Feb)
• 2x Short-term Field Assistant (18 Feb)
• Stipendiary Lectureship in Biological Sciences (9 Feb)
• Deputy IT Manager (7 March)
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution (4 Apr)
• 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
• 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
• Skin and Fur Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach
• Archaeovirology: uncovering the history of viral pathogens
• T-reg and T-effector subsets dynamics in viral infections
• 3D microfluidic liver cultures are a physiological model to study Hepatitis B virus
• Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in the United States
• Seasonality and endemicity of Melioidosis: the impact of phages
• The population genetics of malaria-blocking mutations
• CANCELLED: Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases
• TINBERGEN LECTURE: Earth observation through animals
• Making your research accessible to school kids
• Parasites under the spotlight: applications of vibrational spectroscopy to parasitology
• WELDON PRIZE LECTURE: Immunology that counts: the population biology of immunity
• Understanding and controlling the spread of zoonoses – from bovine TB to Ebola
• Using mechanistic experiments and macroecological models to understand biodiversity in a changing world
• Reverse-engineering animal flight: unravelling the evolutionary co-tuning of physics, physiology, and behaviour
• Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in a population with severe inbreeding depression
• Neural circuit and genetic bases of behaviour in the planktonic larvae of Platynereis
• Challenges for bees in a changing world
• How large animals shape ecosystem and planetary function
• Sheep in Wolves Clothing: Insect-specific viruses of mosquitoes exploited as novel platforms for diagnostics and vaccines
• Understanding and controlling the spread of disease within and between animal populations
• Saving the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka
• A long way from home: four years studying nature's greatest travellers
• Adapting protein quality control for intervention in immunity and neurodegenerative diseases
• Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence
• Environmental DNA for wildlife epidemiology and outbreak investigation
• Parallel Evolution and the Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Viruses
• Optimal decision making to control ecological systems
• Using structured population models to help understand individuals and communities
• Insights from ancient DNA into the evolutionary history of M. tuberculosis
• Origins of diversity in islands: The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly
• Development, selection, and species diversification: Semi-aquatic bugs as models
• Haploid gametic selection in animals and its evolutionary consequences
• The sweet taste of nectar: novel mechanisms for encoding taste revealed in bees
• The evolutionary genetics of industrial melanism – an unfolding story
• Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: 'Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain'
• How trypanosomatid parasites drive their swimming: New lessons from new light microscopy approaches
• Ecological dynamics in a non-stationary world
• Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents
• Insights into the epidemiology of dengue and Zika from maps and models
• Illegal Wildlife Trade Documentary Screening
• Illegal Wildlife Trade Seminar
• Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: Recent progress in induced pluripotent stem cell research and application
• Extended heredity and evolution
• Workshop: Introduction to capture-mark-recapture methods
• Workshop: Tools for reproducible research in ecology and evolution
• Workshop: Efficient data synthesis and visualisation
• Ageing mini-symposium
• Functional trait mini-symposium
• The MHC class-II HLA-DR receptor mediates bat influenza A-like H17N10 virus entry into mammalian cells
• Genomic insights into Herpesviral evolution and pathogenesis
• Harcourt Science Communication Lecture: Fantastic beasts and how to film them: tales from a wildlife documentary maker
• Use of imagery in conservation and how to get your message across
• Tinbergen Lecture: Developmental symbiosis and the mapping of novel evolutionary trajectories
• BBC Pandemic – informing infectious disease models with citizen science
• Antigenic breadth - a missing component of an effective vaccine against herpes
• T cell control of HIV - Prospects for Cure
• Blue Planet Movie Night
• Blue Planet Movie Night
• Southwood Lecture - Every record counts: engaging people in recording wildlife
• Tracking and tackling emerging fungal threats
• The ecology of infection and immunity in a wild rodent system
• Factors that affect the rate of adaptive protein evolution
• Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome
• The molecular basis of complementary sex determination in honeybees
• Professor Elizabeth McGraw
• The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild
• Supporting our research and graduate students
• Wildlife Conservation Projects
• The economic cost of alien invasive species worldwide
• Moving forward with spatial disease models: Movement ecology improves predictions for disease spread
• Understanding rotavirus dynamics in response to vaccination
• Ebola virus: Vaccines, survivors and molecular epidemiology
• Wild non-human primate microbiomes, flies and pathogens in changing ecosystems
• Zoology Graduate Support & Mentoring
• Genetics of adaptation: the roles of pleiotropy and linkage
• Do animals adapt to their density regimes? Looking for an answer with the Least Killifish
• Multi trophic level response to fragmentation in one of planet's most disrupted ecosystems
• Weldon Lecture: Predicting the forest from the trees
• Cognition, collective intelligence and cultural evolution
• From development to deep time: Reconstructing the evolution of diversity with a phenomic approach
• Biology LGBTQ+ Society - First Meeting
• CANCELLED: Evolutionary Biology and Homosexual Behaviour
• LGBTQ+ In Stem: An Introduction
• LGBTQ+ 101
• CANCELLED: Social evolution in bees and wasps
• International Women’s Day – Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• Ad-hoc Seminar hosted by Long-term Ecology Group: "LakePulse network: First Canada-wide assessment of lakes”
• Science for children at home
• Living Longer Better: Male reproductive ageing in Drosophila and how to delay it
• Saving Wildcats: the Reinforcement of Wildcats in Scotland (2020-2025)
• The ecology and conservation of Large blue (Maculinea) butterflies
• Patterns of population density in terrestrial vertebrates and their application in conservation
• The Eco-Evo-Devo of reproductive capacity
• Sexing Up Human Pheromones: Good scientists, bad science, reproducibility in the life sciences, and doing it better
• Behavioral ecology of large carnivores in West Africa's dynamic conservation estate
• Data densities, biogeographic challenges and mechanistic insights into climate impacts on coastal marine systems.
• CANCELLED - Scaling plant responses to disturbances in the Anthropocene: from individuals, to populations, to ecosystem services.
• New look PubMLST showcase event
• Living Longer Better: Achieving Healthy Life Expectancy for all
• Ecological theory reveals we might be missing important messages about the ways ecosystem stressors combine
• Aliens (or at least intelligent ones) are rare...
• The earlier that birds pair, the better they fare
• Spotting elephants from space: a satellite revolution
• How bacteria protects against genetic parasites: CRISPR-Cas systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Covid-19 transmission chains in the UK traced through time and space with remarkable accuracy using genomic epidemiology
• Microplastics in our marine environment: Prevalence, problems and solutions
• The domestication of Penicillium cheese fungi
• Tropical forests and a changing climate: opportunities at the interface between trait-based ecology, forest dynamics and remote sensing
• Blue solutions to global challenges: experimental tests of environmental change on species interactions
• Bacterial social interactions mediated by siderophores: small molecules - large effects
• The ups and downs of a life less social
• Climate, Chemicals and Covid - Gauging Stressor Impacts in Freshwater Evosystems
• Deep learning in evolutionary genomics: can AI solve the unsolvable?
• £100 million donation from Ineos to create new institute to fight antimicrobial resistance
• Darwin, Descent, & 'Hideous Sexual Criminality': A Talk for LGBT+ History Month
• Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change
• Oxford University and Global Accelerated Ventures Launches the World’s First Conservation Venture Studio
• Living Longer Better: The evolutionary landscape of primate mortality
• Living Longer Better: Maternal effects and ageing: an evolutionary perspective.
• Banning wild meat could increase biodiversity loss
• Vaccine passports can work but face 12 challenges
• Considering temporal impacts on ecosystem stressors
• Recommendations to reduce parachute science in coral reef biodiversity research
• Research consortium including Oxford University and Google.org announce new platform to track COVID-19 data
• Joining the spots: leopard print fashion and big cat conservation
• Bird parents that receive help live longer
• Asexual animals keep a lid on jumping genes
• Social interactions of mice play a key role in shaping their gut health, study shows
• Local prey shortages drive foraging costs and breeding success in NE Atlantic puffins
• Scientists confirm bacteria’s genetic ‘Swiss army knife’ is key driver of antibiotic resistance
• Transforming crop and timber production could reduce species extinction risk by 40%
• Researchers say we don’t know how most mammals will respond to climate change
• Snow moves back, roe deer move forward: effects of climate change on an Alpine ungulate’s altitudinal distribution and winter space use patterns
• British and Irish gardens fuel a novel reverse migration for Blackcaps in winter
• The ocean urgently needs truly collaborative science between partners - Oxford scientists
• Young male fruit flies make females fight each other more
• Professor Martin Maiden awarded Marjory Stephenson Prize 2021
• Living Longer Better seminar series: now on YouTube!
• An evolutionary outlook on antibiotic resistance
• Fighting for fish
• Alumni Newsletter - Letter from HoD
• Freshwater fish: investigating how multiple stressors alter freshwater communities
• Biology’s undergraduate strategic outreach report
• Graduate Research - Trinity 2021
• Natural climate change solutions highly effective in long term projections
• New simplified tropical forest assessment tool is highly effective at estimating forest condition
• Evolutionary consequences of population founding in silvereye bird colonies