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ZSL Prize Winners

24 April 2017

We are delighted to announce that the Zoological Society of London has awarded two prizes to people in our department. Dr Claire Spottiswoode has been awarded the Scientific Medal 2017 for research scientists with up to 15 years postdoctoral experience for distinguished work in Zoology. Claire is well-known to all of us in...

Good conservation news from the wide blue yonder

12 April 2017

Conservation is often about stemming the tide of adverse impacts caused by burgeoning humanity. But one conservation intervention is emphatically about generating improvement. If vertebrates, such as goats or rats, that have been introduced to islands can be removed, there is the prospect of restored vegetation, larger...

Student Conference on Conservation Science

29 March 2017

The 18th Annual Student Conference on Conservation Science took place at the end of March in the Department. This year the conference has welcomed 190 delegates from 63 countries. The conference was opened by Pro Vice-Chancellor, Chris Abell, on Tuesday morning and since then there have been student talks, workshops...

Can a major extinction event in Brazil be prevented?

27 March 2017

Major extinction event predicted for the Brazilian Cerrado could be avoided by the right policy mix Deforestation in the Cerrado could result in the extinction of 1,140 plant species over the next 30 years, a number eight times higher than all recorded plant extinctions worldwide since the year 1500. Timely support for the...

Departmental Seminar Day 2017

27 March 2017

Every year the department holds a "seminar day" on the wide variety of research done in our department and is attended by the rest of the department. The talks are given by researchers at all different levels, i.e. from first year graduate student to professor. This year the seminar subjects ranged from "William Benson's...

Dr Marta Zlatic is awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize 2017

13 March 2017

We are delighted to congratulate Dr Marta Zlatic who has been awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize 2017. The prize, established in 2009, is awarded to “a European neuroscientist under the age of 40, who has demonstrated outstanding and independent scientific creativity and productivity”. The prize is awarded...

Dr Claire Spottiswoode is awarded the Linnean Society's Bicentenary Medal

3 March 2017

Many congratulations to Dr Claire Spottiswoode who has been awarded the Linnean Society’s Bicentenary Medal for 2017. This is awarded annually in recognition of excellent work done by a biologist under the age of 40 years. It is the second award she has received this year; she also won the ZSL’s Scientific medal. Claire...

Can climate change affect evolutionary processes?

3 March 2017

Dr Kiyoko Gotanda, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, and colleagues, from around the world, have opened up investigations into the effects of climate change on natural selection. Their article, just published in Science magazine, suggests that precipitation may well influence evolutionary adaptation. Abstract...

Signals, cues and the nature of mimicry

22 February 2017

In a review article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Gabriel Jamie, a PhD student in the Department of Zoology, examines the logic by which mimicry in nature can be conceptually organised and analysed. While many examples of mimicry represent textbook examples of natural selection’s power to...

Pilkington Teaching Prize Award 2017

17 February 2017

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Balmford on the award of the Pilkington Teaching Prize for Teaching in 2017. Andrew has been a member of the Department since 1998 and has been an inspiring lecturer in both second and third year courses in Ecology and Conservation. He has been one of the key leaders of the second year...

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ZSL Prize Winners

Good conservation news from the wide blue yonder

Student Conference on Conservation Science

Can a major extinction event in Brazil be prevented?

Departmental Seminar Day 2017

Dr Marta Zlatic is awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize 2017

Dr Claire Spottiswoode is awarded the Linnean Society's Bicentenary Medal

Can climate change affect evolutionary processes?

Signals, cues and the nature of mimicry

Pilkington Teaching Prize Award 2017

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