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Malcolm Burrows’ research featured on QI

3 January 2017

Malcolm Burrows’ and Greg Sutton’s research on gears in the jumping mechanism of the plant-hopper Issus featured in the New Year QI programme on BBC2. The programme is available on I-Player at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b087xd6k/qi-xl-series-n-10-naturenurture The clip is at 08:00 minutes.

Professor Robert Hinde 1923-2016

3 January 2017

Members of the Department were saddened to hear of the death of Robert Hinde, who passed away peacefully on 23 December in the Arthur Rank Hospice at the age of 93. Robert was Royal Society Research Professor, based at the sub-department of animal behaviour, Madingley, from 1963 to 1989 and in a long and extraordinarily...

Francis Crick: A Singular Approach to Scientific Discovery

6 December 2016

Francis Crick: A Singular Approach to Scientific Discovery, by Dr Peter Lawrence CELL, Volume 167, Issue 6 , 1 December 2016, Pages 1436–1439 Francis Harry Compton Crick was born 100 years ago. He was an inspiring man whose scientific strategy was golden in its success ( Olby, 2009 ). He was remarkable, not only because of...

Nature Ecology and Evolution paper from Prof Jenny Clack and NERC consortium

6 December 2016

Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land Fossils of what may be the earliest four-legged backboned animals to walk on land have been discovered in Scotland. The lizard-like creatures lived about 355 million years ago, when the ancestors of modern reptiles, birds and mammals emerged from swamps. The discovery plugs...

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Poster Competition 2016

22 November 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Poster Competition: 1st Prize “Seeing Red to Being Red” Hanlu Twyman, supervised by Dr Nick Mundy 2nd Prize “Predicting the antigenic evolution of influenza viruses” David Pattinson, supervised by Prof Derek Smith

Profs Derek Smith and Bill Sutherland cited in Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers of 2016

21 November 2016

Professor Derek Smith and Professor Bill Sutherland have been listed in the Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers of 2016 list. 31 researchers from Cambridge are on this list. Members of the Department of Zoology who have appeared on previous lists (updates in September 2015) include Professors Andrew Balmford , Tim...

Alumnus Simon Keenlyside star of MetOpera's DonGiovanni wishes the Dept a Happy 150th Anniversary

26 October 2016

Alumnus Simon Keenlyside (1980-83) star of @MetOpera 's #DonGiovanni wishes the Department of Zoology a Happy 150th Anniversary. Simon Keenlyside, who read Part II Zoology in 1982-3, has been singing the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. On Saturday October 22nd, during the...

Eureka Moments film

26 October 2016

Eleven scientists in the Department of Zoology talk on film about their personal moments of discovery. Eureka Moments Trailer Eureka Moments film

150th Anniversary photograph album

3 October 2016

Please click to view Julie's fantastic photos taken over the Anniversary weekend 23-25 September. There is also a short video of highlights of the weekend. Photo credit: Orquidea Real Photobook - Julieta Sarmiento Photography - https://orquidearealphotobook.wordpress.com/

Whale skeleton rebuilt at Cambridge University museum

29 September 2016

To read the BBC Cambridgeshire News report on the re-hanging of our finback whale please go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-37451334 There is further coverage in the Cambridge News , and a short report on Cambridge TV . Log in

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Malcolm Burrows’ research featured on QI

Professor Robert Hinde 1923-2016

Francis Crick: A Singular Approach to Scientific Discovery

Nature Ecology and Evolution paper from Prof Jenny Clack and NERC consortium

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Poster Competition 2016

Profs Derek Smith and Bill Sutherland cited in Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers of 2016

Alumnus Simon Keenlyside star of MetOpera's DonGiovanni wishes the Dept a Happy 150th Anniversary

Eureka Moments film

150th Anniversary photograph album

Whale skeleton rebuilt at Cambridge University museum

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