Part II Zoology student and field course participant, Libby Daley (Pembroke) , writes... This year, the Zoology department launched its first long-awaited tropical field course to the sleepy, canalside town of Gamboa, Panama. Set against a backdrop of passing cargo ships and lush tropical forest, the Smithsonian Institute’...

Last weekend two of our research groups took part in the Cambridge Neuroscience BRAINFest . The festival took place over three days and included lectures, films, art work and an interactive showcase in the Corn Exchange. The interactive showcase included themes such as “Pain and Pleasure” “Perception & Imagination” and...

It might be possible for human-to-human airborne transmissible avian H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found. The findings, from research led by Professor Derek Smith and Dr Colin Russell from the Department, were published last month in the journal Science . Currently, avian H5N1 influenza, also...

A new paper published in Current Biology this week by several members of the department looks at substrate-borne vibratory communication during courtship in Drosophila melanogaster.