Claire Feniuk received the following awards at 2015 International Conference on Conservation Biology in Montpellier The "European Young Nature Conservationist 2015" award - this was from the Society for Conservation Biology - European Section, and according to their website is "for upcoming young people (30-years and under...

In 2011, Dr Isabel Palacios and her colleagues began running annual workshops at the Kampala International University (KIU, Uganda) that set out to equip scientists and faculty members with the knowledge and skills needed to undertake research in biomedical science and state-of-the-art cellular biology using fruit flies...

The ZSL Frink Award is the Society’s highest award for zoologists, and at a ceremony on 16th June it was presented to Sir Pat Bateson FRS, Emeritus Professor of Ethology, University of Cambridge, for his substantial and original contributions to the advancement of the science. Throughout his career, Pat has had an enormous...

Simon Laughlin’s book (co-authored with Peter Sterling), “Principles of Neural Design” (MIT Press) is published this month in the US and will have its British launch in July. According to Prof. David Attwell (UCL): “Time, space, energy and information: these are the key themes of this fascinating book, which takes the...