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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
- Godfray Lab
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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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- Dr Nuno Faria
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- Dr Helen Alexander
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- Kayla King wins prestigious Leverhulme Prize
- Dr Tristram Wyatt
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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
- Tinbergen Update
- 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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- Aboobaker Lab
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- Interview with a vampire – exploring the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio
- Professor Christine Nicol
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- Mathematical Ecology Research Group
- ‘Friends of friends’ relationships may be simpler than they seem
- Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?
- Sheldon Lab
- Caitlin Hamilton
- Dr Dawn Burnham
- Lucy Larkman
- Sam Gannon
- An evolution of epigenetic mechanisms through genomic analyses of nematodes
- Jason Hogg
- Dr Caroline Good
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- Dr Caroline Pond
- David Wilson
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- Dr José Lourenço
- Dr Jenny MacLennan
- Danielle Sinclair
- 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
- Graduates: The Application Process
- Siobhán Organ
- Toni Wheeler
- Geoff Hagan
- Adrian Cooper
- Andrew Burke
- John Hogg
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Evolution and Development (19 Jan)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant (31 Jan)
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Coordinator (31 Jan)
- Technician (31 Jan)
- Seminar and statistics timetable 2017-2018
- Reports by previous Varley Gradwell Fellows
- Behaviour
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- Iding Haidir
- Nishant Kumar
- Hila Levy
- Derek Park
- Madison Pearce
- Dr Tetyana Vasylyeva
- Joseph Bartram
- William Harvey
- Andrew Martin
- Anish Dattani
- Dr Guy Cooper
- Isuru Goonatilake
- Clare Barker
- Dr Stephanie Brittain
- Samuel Campbell
- Rômulo Carleial
- Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou
- Guillaume Poncelet
- Susana Rostro Garcia
- Emilia Skirmuntt
- Matthew Wijers
- Kim Solve Jacobsen
- Geraldine Werhahn
- Friederike Hillemann
- Genevieve Finerty
- Josephine Mahony
- Robert Paton
- Dr Ashley Sendell-Price
- Maria Ordovas-Montanes
- Matishalin Patel
- Amy Royall
- Sarah Skeels
- Célia Souque
- Matthew Speight
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- Yichen (Serena) Dai
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- Amy Fitzmaurice
- James Foley
- Anke Kloock
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- Andrew Snyder-Beattie
- Divya Sridhar
- Benjamin Van Doren
- Liisa Veerus
- Yunke Wang
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- Sofia Castelló y Tickell
- Martyna Syposz
- Ocean Research and Conservation Group
- Alice Ekroth
- Christina Hunt
- Joseph Poore
- Tomos Potter
- Charlotte Searle
- Paolo Strampelli
- Danielle Edmunds
- Natasha Gillies
- Mirjam Hazenbosch
- Asher Leeks
- Natalia Pérez-Campanero Antolín
- Thomas Meiller-Legrand
- Thom Rawson
- Melissa Arias
- Eric Ash
- Tom Brewer
- Julius Bright Ross
- Isla Duporge
- James Kempton
- Timothy Kuiper
- Gregory Lewis
- Lynn Lewis-Bevan
- Laura Perry
- Salha Rawas
- Peter Tyrrell
- Mark Wong
- Lucinda Zawadzki
- Iain Walmsley
- Oxford Long-Term Ecology Lab
- Jacqueline Gill
- Chuck Lee
- Sarah Stiffel
- James Wheeler
- Oliver Meacock
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deep-sea wildlife more vulnerable to extinction than first thought
- 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
- Cate Phillips
- Equality & Diversity
- Skin and Fur Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach
- Dr Lucy Aplin
- Dr Rhiannon Austin
- Dr Klodeta Kura
- Dr Jayna Raghwani
- 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
- 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
- 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
- WELDON PRIZE LECTURE: Immunology that counts: the population biology of immunity
- Nature is our greatest ally in the fight against climate change
- Exploring the links between functional traits and population performance
- Dr Rodrigo Pracana
- Professor Oliver Pybus awarded the Mary Lyon medal
- Dr Susanne Sütterlin
- Dr Femke Broekhuis
- Dr Nic Elliot
- Dr Beccy Wilebore
- A UNIQ experience for budding biologists
- Martin Hurajt
- Dr Alexander Zarebski
- Dr Kayla King awarded an ERC Starting Grant
- 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
- Do plant-feeding insects affect photosynthesis?
- Dr Aming Li
- Link found between sleep and strength of family tree
- Bernardo Gutierrez
- Dr Dominic Andradi-Brown
- Lois Ogunlana
- Benjamin Singer
- Sheep in Wolves Clothing: Insect-specific viruses of mosquitoes exploited as novel platforms for diagnostics and vaccines
- Victoria Pike
- Professor Kathy Willis awarded BES Marsh Award for Ecology
- Tracking the evolution and transmission of yellow fever
- Breeding black-tailed godwits affected locally by climate change
- William Volpato
- Ceri Watkins
- Understanding and controlling the spread of disease within and between animal populations
- Saving the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka
- Study launched on reducing demand for illegal wildlife products
- New understanding of worm stem cells could untap potential of our own
- Creating a continental bird migration forecast
- Half-a-billion-year-old fossils offer new clues to how life exploded on the sea floor
- On the value of big data in ecology and conservation science
- A long way from home: four years studying nature's greatest travellers
- Pre-clinical success for a universal flu vaccine offers hope for new third generation approach
- Evidence that addictive behaviours have strong links with ancient retroviral infection
- 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
- Bold male birds fall faster and harder for their partners
- More big companies commit to addressing environmental impacts
- Dr Talya Hackett
- Tapeworm DNA hints at discomforts of life in a medieval trading hub
- Francesco Pelizza
- Shifting desires for forbidden goods
- Professor Geraldine Wright
- Optimal decision making to control ecological systems
- Leon Li
- Anna Dewar
- Wenyuan Zhang
- Mukhlish Holle
- Jinlin Chen
- Jin Liu
- Ugyen Penjor
- Luca Chiaverini
- Rudo Supple
- Rodrigo Oyanedel
- Dr Cassidy Nelson
- Zac Hana
- Sofía Miñano-González
- Ming-Shan (Cindy) Tsai
- Wei Wei
- Dr Amr Aswad
- Margaux Steyaert
- Dr Lucy Taylor
- Joshua Thomas
- Eveliina Hanski
- Emma Dale
- New Caledonian crows can create tools from multiple parts
- Oliver Leedham
- Professor Oliver Pybus enters new partnership with the Royal Veterinary College
- Rebecca Goldberg
- Michaelmas 2018 e-newsletter: Message from Professor Ben Sheldon
- Dr David Hemprich-Bennett
- Genomic clues to the origin of the vertebrates
- Extreme flow for Hillstream loaches
- 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'
- Dr Jennifer Lucey awarded a NERC Early Career Impact Award
- Dr Olivier Cunrath
- Bacteria infecting cystic fibrosis patients resort to 'going private' to survive
- Asking sensitive questions in the field of conservation
- Satellite data suggest conservation success likely for marine ‘Blue Belt’
- Dr Louise Pankhurst
- Dr Alper Mutlu
- Dr Rachel Wheatley
- Joe Crook
- Fruit fly promiscuity alters the evolutionary forces on males
- Professor Alex Kacelnik awarded the ASAB Medal
- Dr Xuedan (Holly) Wang
- Dr Raquel de Sousa
- Global Research Hubs tackle world's toughest challenges
- Katie Murtough
- Dr Pol Capdevila Lanzaco
- How trypanosomatid parasites drive their swimming: New lessons from new light microscopy approaches
- Suki Kenth
- Dr Suzanne Ford
- Oxford University signs universal flu vaccine development deal with US startup BWV
- Julia Migne
- Ecological dynamics in a non-stationary world
- Dr Paris Stefanoudis
- Zhenhuan Zhang
- Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents
- Sophie Hedges
- Oxford students and Seychellois volunteers team up for an epic beach-clean mission
- Zoology researchers recognised by MPLS Impact Awards
- Insights into the epidemiology of dengue and Zika from maps and models
- Penguining around the Southern Ocean
- Dr Sean Booth
- Liz AD Campbell
- Hollie Booth
- Vocal information about food availability more prevalent in the mornings
- Enabling targeted interventions to reduce the burden of mosquito-borne diseases
- Illegal Wildlife Trade Documentary Screening
- Illegal Wildlife Trade Seminar
- Akademeia students awestruck by fly practical
- Courting bugs attract mates using an elastic “snapping organ” for vibrational communication
- Spring statement: Welcome support for Ascension Island marine protection
- Aldabra clean-up project off to roaring start
- José Gabriel Niño Barreat
- Dr Sarah François
- Professor Fiona Tomley
- Professor Ken Norris
- Dr Michael Reinwald
- Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: Recent progress in induced pluripotent stem cell research and application
- Congratulations to Professor Stu West, awarded an ERC Advanced Grant
- New model predicts substantial reduction of malaria transmitting mosquitoes in a West African country using gene-drive technologies
- Dr Jonathan Pattrick
- Groundbreaking scientific study maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030
- Dr Żaneta Kaszta
- Computer games for fish uncover why some prey lead and others follow
- Zoos and aquaria deliver missing information critical to sustaining biodiversity
- Dr Georgia Drew
- Polar Ecology and Conservation Group
- Ignacio (Nacho) Juarez Martínez
- Extended heredity and evolution
- Dr Julien Collet
- Dr Keith McMahon
- Dr Mohammad Farhadinia
- Professor Kathy Willis attends Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Alex Fyfe
- 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
- Alifa Bintha Haque
- Dr Jack Howe
- Dr William P J Smith
- Genomic insights into Herpesviral evolution and pathogenesis
- Good vibrations: how can spiders locate their prey?
- 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
- Local Oxfordshire schools provide zoological artwork
- Tinbergen Lecture: Developmental symbiosis and the mapping of novel evolutionary trajectories
- Dr Nicola Kay Simcock
- BBC Pandemic – informing infectious disease models with citizen science
- Dr Sarah Hill awarded the Linnean Society's John C Marsden Medal
- Antigenic breadth - a missing component of an effective vaccine against herpes
- Dr Bryan Wilson
- Scientists discover hawk's pursuit of prey uses mixed guidance law, with implications for capturing rogue drones in cluttered environments
- Elephants walk more direct paths under risk of poaching
- T cell control of HIV - Prospects for Cure
- New versions of the COMADRE and COMPADRE databases released
- In memory of Dr John Iles
- The fellowship of the wing: pigeons flap faster to fly together
- Ben Bellekom
- The older you get, the harder you seek: the mating secrets of Africa's bull elephants
- Dr Sarah Knowles
- Dr Anja Felmy
- Dr Curt Lamberth
- David Benz
- Live fast and die young, or play the long game? Scientists map huge variety of animal life cycles
- Blue Planet Movie Night
- Blue Planet Movie Night
- Blue Water Vaccines, developing universal flu vaccine, completes $7m financing following successful preclinical study
- Display of concern and “consolation” towards an unknown monkey offers hope for endangered species
- Back-to-back heatwaves kill more than two-thirds of coral
- Professor Dame Angela McLean appointed first female Chief Scientific Adviser by MOD
- Professor Peter Holland, FRS, awarded the Royal Society’s Darwin Medal
- Liam Crowley
- Dr Kieran Bates
- Sebald Verkuijl
- EJ Milner-Gulland given Distinguished Service Award by Society for Conservation Biology
- 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
- Dr Michael Bentley
- Professor Elizabeth McGraw
- Dr Charlotte Regan
- The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild
- Giving to Zoology
- Supporting our research and graduate students
- Undergraduate travel bursaries
- Wildlife Conservation Projects
- 'The Nemo effect' is untrue: animal movies promote awareness, not harm
- Lord of the flies: competition breeds a better ejaculate
- Thomas Lewin
- Dr Craig Thompson
- Dr Jacques Deere
- James Shelton
- The economic cost of alien invasive species worldwide
- Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate faces in the wild
- Italian genomes mirror the multilayer history of Southern Europe
- Professor Tim Barraclough
- Beyond regulating trade: Understanding the consumers driving saiga horn demand
- Mark Roper
- Faria Lab
- Tiago Monteiro
- Dr Emily Stevens
- Tamara Feltrin
- Dr Jess Isden
- Professor Ian Feavers
- Dr Michelle Jackson
- Moving forward with spatial disease models: Movement ecology improves predictions for disease spread
- Understanding rotavirus dynamics in response to vaccination
- How can evolutionary biology help to get rid of antibiotic resistant bacteria?
- Dr Lydia France
- Green Lab
- BarraLab
- William Smith
- Jean-Paul Carrera
- Ming Liu
- Hisham Ali
- The Zika virus linked to microcephaly, discovered on the African continent
- HumBug: a new smartphone tool in fight against malaria using acoustic sounds and machine learning
- Dr Jan Vandrol
- Samin Gokcekus
- Saving the planet one drone at a time
- Merle Fitzpatrick
- Henry Grub
- Samuel Crofts
- A filament fit for space - silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures
- Mahan Ghafari
- Adjany Costa
- Five year funding for international open-access databases for bacterial diversity
- Dr Joseph Tobias
- Ebola virus: Vaccines, survivors and molecular epidemiology
- Congratulations to Dr Sarah Knowles awarded an ERC Starting Grant
- Nilo Merino Recalde
- Elisa Sandoval Serés
- Aavika Dhanda
- Stefan Dascalu
- Wulan Pusparini
- Department of Zoology Statement about Trophy-hunting Debate
- Thomas Miller
- Rosaria Rosaria
- Yian Hang
- Ami Pekrul
- Jie Wei
- Dr Pramod Jangir
- Zhong Yap
- Oxford University to play major role in project to map genomes of all life in the British Isles
- Creating fake rhino horn with horse hair to help save the endangered rhino
- Connor Bernard
- Angela Bishop
- Adaptation is maintained by the parliament of genes
- Christine Soper
- Biology Class of '89 Reunion Review
- Undergraduate Field Trip to Borneo 2019
- New appointments at the Department of Zoology and the Department of Plant Sciences
- Wild non-human primate microbiomes, flies and pathogens in changing ecosystems
- Nature-based Solutions Conference 2020
- Thomas Scott
- Optimism and pessimism in conservation stories and their salience on social media
- Victor Ajuwon
- Helen Sanders
- Dr Annapaula Correia
- Ben Sheldon, Andy Hector, and Oli Pybus named as Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics
- Letter from Heads of Department - Michaelmas newsletter
- Study reveals climate change impact on Antarctic penguins
- Social influencers: what can we learn from animals?
- Zoology Graduate Support & Mentoring
- Dr Margaret Varga
- Dr Varga awarded 2019 NATO Scientific Achievement Award
- Oxford researchers launch a 21st century conservation plan
- Dr Jennifer Scott
- Olivia Bond
- Genetics of adaptation: the roles of pleiotropy and linkage
- Do animals adapt to their density regimes? Looking for an answer with the Least Killifish
- Aym Maidment
- Oxford researchers move one step further towards understanding how life evolved
- Multi trophic level response to fragmentation in one of planet's most disrupted ecosystems
- Dessislava Veltcheva
- Isabel Key
- Weldon Lecture: Predicting the forest from the trees
- Computational and Spatial Epidemiology Group
- Building sustainability into traditional Chinese medicine trade on the new Silk Roads
- Cognition, collective intelligence and cultural evolution
- Dr Katrina Davis
- From development to deep time: Reconstructing the evolution of diversity with a phenomic approach
- The cryptic impacts of invasion: functional homogenization of tropical ant communities by invasive fire ants
- Elynor Moore
- Professor Ben Sheldon
- Jeannie Scott
- Hannah Austyn
- Rose Argall
- Biology LGBTQ+ Society - First Meeting
- CANCELLED: Evolutionary Biology and Homosexual Behaviour
- LGBTQ+ In Stem: An Introduction
- LGBTQ+ 101
- Mapping the global distribution of Novel Coronavirus
- CANCELLED: Social evolution in bees and wasps
- Meningococcal disease vaccines in the UK and Australia
- Dr Amy Dickman chosen as one of National Geographic’s ‘Women of Impact’
- Using the power of pop to change minds over sea turtle meat consumption
- Himalayan wolf discovered to be a unique wolf adapted to harsh high altitude life
- Biologists uncover shape of fundamental global relationships that determine bird diversity on islands
- Two top wins for Biology at MPLS Impact Awards ceremony
- Coronavirus: Egypt, Algeria and South Africa are the main gates for importation in Africa
- Aldabra clean-up team meet with local primary students
- Top prize for idea to reduce pollution from world's shipping industry
- International Women’s Day – Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- Professor Thomas Richards
- Lara Semple
- Marian Dawkins wins FFAR SMART Broiler Funding, in partnership with McDonald’s
- BEE2020 – a new conference for PhD students
- UK launches whole genome sequence alliance to map spread of coronavirus
- COVID-19: Study shows that travel restrictions are most useful in the early and late phase of an epidemic
- Horizon scanning to identify the emerging risks of the Belt & Road Initiative
- New research stresses the urgent need for serologic testing to help tackle the COVID-19 outbreak
- Lee Fletcher
- China’s control measures may have prevented 700,000 COVID-19 cases
- Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics
- Researchers to determine community COVID-19 infection rates in the UK using serology, PCR and Nanopore Sequencing Technology
- What can the online world teach us about the natural world?
- Dr Berta Verd
- Reuben Nowell
- Trevor Sloughter
- Marine Ecology and Conservation Research Group
- Lucy Matkin
- Elizabeth Preston
- Researchers use virus genomic tracking to reveal the rise and fall of the COVID-19 epidemic in Guangdong Province
- Equipment to facilitate COVID-19 research loaned to University of Oxford for free from local company IPSEN
- Wright Lab – Oxford Bee Laboratory
- Proactive engagement to understand and control wildlife trade in an unsettled world
- Professor Christopher Dye, FRS
- COVID-19 lockdown: a possible exit strategy
- A tribute to Professor Lord Robert May (1936-2020)
- Accurate mapping of human travel patterns with global smartphone data
- Professors King and Sheldon recognised by The Linnean Society
- BBC Contagion experiment offers insights into Covid-19 control
- Ad-hoc Seminar hosted by Long-term Ecology Group: "LakePulse network: First Canada-wide assessment of lakes”
- Science for children at home
- Bacteria perform mass suicide to defend their colony
- Creating a Comparative Framework of Demographic Resilience
- Human interactions with wild and farmed animals must change dramatically to reduce risk of another deadly pandemic
- Factors influencing fertility in fruit flies
- Evaluation of journals in conservation and ecology find only 5% comply with all 5 Fair Open Access criteria
- The genetic basis of bats’ superpowers revealed
- Sara Lil Middleton
- Scientists discover key to restricting antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Genomic and epidemiological data sheds light on phases of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Brazil
- A novel strategy for using compounds as ‘anti-evolution’ drugs to combat antibiotic resistance
- Dr Julio Diaz Caballero
- Andrea Estandia
- Maisie Vollans
- Professor Timothy Rutland Walsh
- Joe Morford
- Louis Bell-Roberts
- Hannah Ogden
- Graduate Studies
- Discovery promising for millions at risk from antibiotic resistance
- Living Longer Better: Male reproductive ageing in Drosophila and how to delay it
- How Medieval parasites can inform modern epidemiological interventions
- Dr Christopher Pull
- Dr Kristina Beck
- Dr Darragh Hare
- Dr Stephen Attwood
- Dr Rachel Parkinson
- Studying compliance with conservation guidelines
- Dr Kim Hoang
- The costs and benefits of paternal care in fish
- Dr Claudio Quilodrán
- Dr Maurice Beseng
- Krish Sanghvi
- Michał Jezierski
- Graduate Studies - Contacts
- Graduate Studies - Applicants
- Graduate Studies - Current Students
- Dr Chris Wilson
- Can online targeted advertising be used for conservation good?
- Evaluating the impact of Blue Planet II on viewers' plastic consumption behaviours
- Genome of Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin-producing mould sequenced
- Dr Laurence Belcher
- Saving Wildcats: the Reinforcement of Wildcats in Scotland (2020-2025)
- The ecology and conservation of Large blue (Maculinea) butterflies
- Kim Jacobsen
- Dr Klara Wanelik
- Patterns of population density in terrestrial vertebrates and their application in conservation
- Research emphasises need for COVID-19 vigilance in tight-knit communities
- Climate change and mistiming: modelling phenology in great tits
- Using GPS-telemetry to uncover the migration routes of Black-Eared Kites
- The Eco-Evo-Devo of reproductive capacity
- Scientists discover the unique signature of a lion’s roar using machine learning
- 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.
- Gaming for conservation
- CANCELLED - Scaling plant responses to disturbances in the Anthropocene: from individuals, to populations, to ecosystem services.
- Project for whole genome sequencing of extinct flightless birds
- Hannah Klim
- New look PubMLST showcase event
- Dr Ben Jenkins
- Seasonal migration patterns in Eurasian blackcaps
- Living Longer Better: Achieving Healthy Life Expectancy for all
- Dr Daniel Stabler
- Unravelling the secrets of spider limb regeneration to inspire new gen soft-robotics
- Denise Swanborn
- Shuo Gao (Jack)
- Joe Woodman
- Dr Edgar Wong
- COVID-19 Research
- Nancy Burrell
- Chunhui Hao
- Philippa Sinclair
- Alumni Newsletter - Letter from HoD
- Will Smith wins ZSL Charles Darwin Award and Marsh Prize
- Department of Zoology awarded Green Impact Bronze Award
- BIPOC STEM network launches
- Graduate Research - Michaelmas 2020
- Katrina Davies
- Dr Adelaide Sibeaux
- Matthew Jordon
- Chloe Kaczvinsky
- Dr Dania Albini
- Ecological theory reveals we might be missing important messages about the ways ecosystem stressors combine
- Microbiology Society prize won by Professor Martin Maiden
- Levine Family Foundation supports graduate study in marine conservation at Oxford