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...

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...

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...

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...