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...

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...