Sarah Luke, a PhD student in the Insect Ecology Group has two recent successes: winning the Merian award for best student talk at the Annual Conference for the Society of Tropical Ecology (held in Freising, Germany, last month), and second prize in the Royal Entomological Society student essay competition . Congratulations...

PhD student Gerit Linneweber (from the Gut Signalling and Metabolism Lab), won third prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014, for his confocal microscopy image of a Drosophila larval spiracle. The spiracles are the entry point of oxygen into the organism and must, similar to the...

PhD student Alex Hackmann , from the Insect Biomechanics Workgroup , has won first prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014 for his Scanning Electron Microscopy image of a polystyrene particle attached to a cleaning hair of an ant. In the course of evolution insects have developed...

As a direct result of the staff survey and Athena SWAN discussions, the Department has launched a mentoring scheme for post-docs . We are one of five trial schemes in the University. Pictured at the initial training session for mentors and mentees are: (Left to right): Dr Sharon Saunders, Research Staff Development...