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Dr Emília Santos - NERC Independent Fellow

17 September 2018

We are delighted to welcome Dr Emília Santos to the Department as a NERC Independent Fellow. Emília joins us from the Gurdon Institute after studying at the University of Lisbon, the Institute Gulbenkian de Ciência, the University of Basel and more recently a postdoc position at the Institute of Functional Genomics in Lyon...

Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger

30 August 2018

Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger Despite rapidly ageing, dominant animals live longer because their underlings are driven out of the group – becoming easy targets for predators. The secret of a long meerkat life is to be “ruler of your community… cracking down on would-be rivals,” say...

Uncovering the genetics of rice resilience to environmental stressors: An ancient genomics approach

29 August 2018

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded 19m DKK Professor Eske Willerslev from the GeoGenetics Group at Cambridge University and the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen for this Semper Ardens project . The project will map the genome of past rice with the intention of identifying genes that can be used to...

Colombia peace deal brings new threat to country’s rainforest

22 August 2018

Chris Jiggins and colleagues from Colombian Universities are urging Colombian policymakers and international conservationists to come together to find ways of saving the Andes-Amazon 'biodiversity bridge', currently threatened by massive deforestation, while at the same time helping local communities to develop after years...

Dr Rosie Trevelyan wins a British Ecological Society Award

22 August 2018

We were delighted to hear that our good friend and colleague Dr Rosie Trevelyan has received this year’s Equality and Diversity Champion award from the British Ecological Society . This award recognises an individual or group who has made significant, innovative and cumulatively outstanding contributions to enhancing the...

Dr Rahia Mashoodh - BBSRC Future Leader Fellow

1 August 2018

We are delighted to “welcome” Dr Rahia Mashoodh to the Department as a BBSRC Future Leader Fellow. Rahia has actually been in the department as a CIHR Research Fellow for 1.5 years and has already made a considerable impact on the department. We were very pleased when she won this prestigious fellowship earlier this year...

Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2019

18 July 2018

Many congratulations to Dr Greg Jefferis who has been awarded the Royal Society's Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2019 for his discoveries concerning the developmental and functional logic of sensory information processing. Greg has a long association with the University of Cambridge and with the Department of Zoology. He...

Congratulations to all our Part II students

27 June 2018

CONGRATULATIONS! To all of our Part II Zoologists who will be graduating over the next few days. We are delighted to say that out of 67 students, 19 were awarded a first, 47 received upper seconds and one a lower second. The Frank Smart Prize for best undergraduate performance in Zoology was awarded to Andrew Catherall ...

Museum of Zoology reopens on 23 June 2018

19 June 2018

The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is one of the largest and most important natural history collections in the UK, with an extraordinarily rich history dating back to 1814. On 23rd June 2018 the Museum reopens after a five-year, £4.1million redevelopment – including nearly £2 million of funding raised by National...

Janet Moore Prize 2018

15 June 2018

The winner of this year’s Janet Moore Prize for supervising in Zoology is Riva Riley . Riva received her award from Dr Tim Weil, Deputy Head of Department (Teaching), at the annual Part II Zoology finalists' party. The prize is awarded on the basis of nominations from Zoology students and module organisers. One student...

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Dr Emília Santos - NERC Independent Fellow

Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger

Uncovering the genetics of rice resilience to environmental stressors: An ancient genomics approach

Colombia peace deal brings new threat to country’s rainforest

Dr Rosie Trevelyan wins a British Ecological Society Award

Dr Rahia Mashoodh - BBSRC Future Leader Fellow

Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2019

Congratulations to all our Part II students

Museum of Zoology reopens on 23 June 2018

Janet Moore Prize 2018

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