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Quest for missing sculpture

2 August 2013

The Department would still very much like to find the Maurice Lambert sculpture of sea creatures (pictured below), which went missing when the Arup building (currently under refurbishment) was added to the New Museums Site in the late 1960s. Please contact Paula McPhee if you have any information. Paula’s detective work in...

Academic Promotions 2013

2 August 2013

Many congratulations to five members of the Department who have received awards in this year's Academic Promotions exercise, to take effect from 1 October 2013:

Part II Zoology student wins first round of University Challenge

30 July 2013

Students representing Trinity College did battle with Christ Church Oxford on University Challenge last night, winning a place in the second round.

A cockroach that jumps

29 July 2013

Professor Malcolm Burrows and colleagues from South Africa have written a paper that shows that a newly discovered species of cockroach jumps, unlike the 4000 other cockroaches which merely scuttle around.

Why locusts swarm

29 July 2013

New research has found that a protein associated with learning and memory plays an integral role in changing the behaviour of locusts from that of harmless grasshoppers into swarming pests.

Invisible fungi crucial for rainforest diversity

29 July 2013

A complex network of fungi in the lower canopy could be one reason tropical rainforests are home to so many different types of insects, spiders and centipedes, say scientists.

EMBO Young Investigator Programme

29 July 2013

22 young European scientists have been selected for excellence in research to join the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme and one of those Young Investigators is Dr Irene Miguel-Aliaga from the Department.

The future of rainforests in a changing landscape and climate

29 July 2013

Rainforests are vanishing worldwide and their protection is of pressing concern. This special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society outlines how human beings are shaping the future of rainforests. The focus lies on the Danum Valley Conservation Area, one of the last remaining primary forests of Malaysian Borneo and on its surrounding forest.

Student Conference updates

29 July 2013

At the start of October the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) - begun here in Zoology back in 2000 - was held for the second time in New York. The US event, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in partnership with a consortium of east coast universities and conservation NGOs, included 400 delegates from over 30 countries.

Aboriginal Australians were first explorers

29 July 2013

An old lock of hair has enabled researchers to sequence the genome of an Aboriginal Australian, and show that modern Aboriginal Australians are direct descendants of the first people to arrive there.

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Quest for missing sculpture

Academic Promotions 2013

Part II Zoology student wins first round of University Challenge

A cockroach that jumps

Why locusts swarm

Invisible fungi crucial for rainforest diversity

EMBO Young Investigator Programme

The future of rainforests in a changing landscape and climate

Student Conference updates

Aboriginal Australians were first explorers

Zoology Features in University Research News

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