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27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici hit the headlines. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/06/2013 - 10:06. Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici have been noticed by Scientific American for their images of bacterial

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. To Paris in 24 hours. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 28/05/2013 - 13:15. On Saturday afternoon, twelve cyclists (including James Cox from Epidemiology - third from the left) arrived at the Eiffel Tower

27 Jul 2024: More information at the Guardian and the Cambridge News.

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/08/2017 - 08:02. A new paper by Andrew Tanentzap in PLoS Biology provides a primer to the global challenge of reconciling forest ... The paper specifically provides an overview of how the economic valuation of

27 Jul 2024: The lab will be in a brand new building, housing a mix of expertise that will be exciting in future collaborations with their group. ... University of Bristol new life sciences building.

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 01/10/2013 - 10:39. In the new journal eLife, Williams, Johnston, Covshoff and Hibberd report a new mathematical approach that provides a theoretical

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 13/10/2016 - 08:50. In 1966, fifty years ago, a new photosynthetic pathway was discovered by Hal Hatch and Roger Slack. ... Julian documents the discovery of this new photosynthetic pathway, and the wide–ranging

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Tue, 10/11/2015 - 11:36. The Department has received the sad news that Dr Patrick Echlin has died.

27 Jul 2024: BBC News: UK scientists speak about Brexit pain.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Thinking like a bee. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 05/08/2015 - 10:02. Professor Beverley Glover was interviewed by the BBC's Farming Today programme, describing how thinking about bee behaviour can

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 10:06. Our own Suzy Stoodley appears in the University's new book (The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge) celebrating successful female

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/04/2015 - 10:42. The Henderson laboratory has published new work in eLife investigating the effect of natural genetic diversity on the recombination ... Together this reveals a new and unexpected effect for genetic

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/11/2014 - 16:09. I am pleased to announce the the post of University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator has been offered to

27 Jul 2024: a new UK synthetic biology centre - OpenPlant - to focus on the development of open technologies in plant synthetic biology and their application in engineering new crop traits. ... The project will fast-forward the design of new plant traits. It takes

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 28/07/2014 - 09:03. New research from the Tanentzap group that has been published in the journal Biology Letters and is featured by ... Science Magazine and in the 23 July issue of New Scientist.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations to Chris Gilligan and Jim Haseloff. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 15/06/2015 - 09:55. Chris Gilligan has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for "services to plant

27 Jul 2024: The plants are being translocated to a new glasshouse that they have built at Sevan in one of three botanic gardens in Armenia.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Recombination hotspots in plants. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 09:43. Ian Henderson and colleagues report in Nature Genetics the fine-scale mapping of recombination rates in Arabidopsis

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Graduate tales. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/03/2014 - 09:23. Four Postgraduate students (Greg Mellers; Meredith Murphy Westwood; Elinor Thompson and Kit Wilkins) have shared their stories of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. It takes two to tango. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 30/05/2017 - 13:21. The NOPE1 gene is required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in maize. The causal gene is now identified using rice. It is