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Read more at: David Attenborough Building Synergy Project

David Attenborough Building Synergy Project

16 March 2018

Slow-motion jumping fleas, a fly-over of Cameroonian rainforests, and David Attenborough abseiling down a living wall: new installation at the David Attenborough Building The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge home to academics and practitioners engaged in many aspects of understanding and conserving the...


Read more at: Annual Equalities and Wellbeing Lecture 2018

Annual Equalities and Wellbeing Lecture 2018

8 March 2018

Last week Barbara, Baroness Young of Old Scone, visited the department to give the third annual Equalities and Wellbeing lecture. Before the lecture, she met members of the Equalities and Wellbeing Committee and then went on to lunch with a selection of our Postdoc community. Lunch was a lively affair that discussed career...


Read more at: Regulation of DNA replication during early embryogenesis

Regulation of DNA replication during early embryogenesis

5 March 2018

Accurate replication of chromosomal DNA is essential for cell proliferation and the development of multicellular organisms. The mechanistic principles of chromosomal DNA replication are evolutionarily conserved in eukaryotes at the molecular level. However, the regulation of the initiation of replication changes...


Read more at: Launch of Cambridge ZooCasts

Launch of Cambridge ZooCasts

5 February 2018

Cambridge ZooCast: What's it like to be a Graduate student in the Department of Zoology in Cambridge? A group of postgraduates is producing some short videos about being a student in the Zoology Department. In each five-minute episode, two postgraduate students have a casual conversation on topics ranging from their...


Read more at: Are insects a credible food source?

Are insects a credible food source?

22 January 2018

One of our PhD students, Charlotte Payne , has recently written an article for the BBC and appeared on the BBC World Service programme "Crowd Science" discussing edible insects. In her BBC article she investigates communities around the world who already eat different insects and, crucially, what they taste like. Cooked...


Read more at: Bolivian biodiversity hotspot on road to deforestation

Bolivian biodiversity hotspot on road to deforestation

15 January 2018

In August 2017, the Bolivian government passed a contentious law that paved the way for construction of a new 190-mile road cutting through one of the country’s most iconic and biodiverse protected rainforests. A recently released report in Current Biology, written by a group of scientists from Bolivia, Finland, Spain and...


Read more at: Meerkat morning weights

Meerkat morning weights

1 December 2017

Many congratulations to Dr Dominic Cram, a Research Associate in our Large Animal Research Group, whose photograph Meerkat morning weights has won the "Ecology in Action" category of the British Ecological Society's "Capturing Ecology" photography competition . The photograph was submitted along with the following...


Read more at: Does the presence of helpers affect maternal investment in cooperative breeders?

Does the presence of helpers affect maternal investment in cooperative breeders?

23 November 2017

As part of their degree third year undergraduate Zoology students have to complete one or two projects that have been devised by researchers in the Department. One of the exciting things that can lead from the projects is the possibility of having the results of the work published. Papers of former students are displayed...


Read more at: In case you missed it...

In case you missed it...

22 November 2017

Over the course of the last couple of months several members of the department have been interviewed by various local media talking about their passion for Zoology. Four of them give a really good insight into their work and their hope for the future. Dr Ed Turner , Curator of Insects in the University Museum of Zoology...


Read more at: 2017 Marsh Book of the Year prize awarded to Tim Clutton-Brock

2017 Marsh Book of the Year prize awarded to Tim Clutton-Brock

6 November 2017

Many congratulations to Professor Tim Clutton-Brock whose book Mammal Societies has been awarded the 2017 Marsh Book of the Year prize by the British Ecological Society. The Marsh Book of the Year Award acknowledges the important role that books have on ecology and its development. This prize is funded by the Marsh...