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Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication - new book edited by Dr Berthold Hedwig

20 January 2014

Springer has published a new volume, edited Dr Berthold Hedwig , which provides a comprehensive selection of recent studies addressing insect hearing and acoustic communication. The variety of signalling behaviours and hearing organs makes insects highly suitable animals for exploring and analysing signal generation and...

"Merry Crypsis" Christmas Party

17 December 2013

As the nights draw in and the temperature drops, we experienced the tropics at this year’s departmental Christmas party, held on Friday 13th December in that heart of darkness, the elementary lab, where the sounds, sights, and tastes of the jungle awaited our exploration. Fancy dress was encouraged and jungle themed...

Professor Marlene Zuk discusses women and science

4 December 2013

In the final Tea Talk of Michaelmas Term, Professor Marlene Zuk gave a special lecture on “Gender, Science, and Myths of Merit”. Prof Zuk, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Minnesota, is the renowned co-discoverer of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis. In addition to research in ecology and evolution, she has...

Dr Denholm doesn't just study flies...

26 November 2013

Seven of the more unusual areas of scientific research

Science lessons for MPs

22 November 2013

Professor Bill Sutherland is a co-author on a new "cheat sheet", published in this week's Nature, to help politicians and policy makers sort the good scientific research from the bad. He talks to Adam Rutherford in yesterday's Radio 4 programme about why it's more important and faster, to teach a scientific approach than...

The Professors’ Award for Outstanding Contribution

15 November 2013

Tracey Brazier and Alecia Carter are joint winners of this year’s Award for Outstanding Contribution. They were presented with their awards at the Newcomers’ Party on Thursday 11th November. This annual award is to recognise and reward a member of staff who has gone that extra mile for the Department in the last year.

Professor Derek Smith on global pandemics

14 November 2013

Radio 4 'Frontiers' programme available now

Prize-winning work published in Developmental Cell Nov 11th 2013

12 November 2013

Tip cells act as dynamic cellular anchors in the morphogenesis of looped renal tubules in Drosophila by Helen Weavers and Helen Skaer.

Why Museum of Zoology in Cambridge dismantled 70ft whale skeleton

1 October 2013

Cambridge News slideshow of the whale being dismantled

Insect Ecology Group on the Royal Society website

8 August 2013

This month’s special issue of Inside Science to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society features Kalsum Mohd Yusah, from the Insect Ecology Group.

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Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication - new book edited by Dr Berthold Hedwig

"Merry Crypsis" Christmas Party

Professor Marlene Zuk discusses women and science

Dr Denholm doesn't just study flies...

Science lessons for MPs

The Professors’ Award for Outstanding Contribution

Professor Derek Smith on global pandemics

Prize-winning work published in Developmental Cell Nov 11th 2013

Why Museum of Zoology in Cambridge dismantled 70ft whale skeleton

Insect Ecology Group on the Royal Society website

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