MSc on critically endangered salamanders
Congratulations to Adam Bland, Lead Herpetology Keeper at Chester Zoo, who has been awarded his masters degree, in which he worked on a...
Thesis hand-in
Congratulations to Fraser Combe of the Harris lab for handing in his PhD thesis on dormouse population genetics today!
Female clustering in cockroach aggregations—A case of social niche construction?
New paper by Dr Stanley at the University of Chester, from work partly done while undertaking her PhD in the Preziosi lab when it was...
Funding for biocontrol research and field work
PhD student Marsia Galambao has been successful in applying for funding ($1000) from the Institute of International Education. The...
Good luck to intern Joshua Sammy
Last Friday, Joshua Sammy left the Ecological Genetics & Conservation lab, to take up an MSc by Research at the University of York with...
Bryozoan course in Russia
For two weeks this August, PhD student Vanessa Yepes-Narvaez was in Russia for a course on bryozoan biology. Students from Greece,...
PhD graduates!
This summer, Sarah Griffiths graduated with a PhD on sponge ecological genetics and conservation and Oliver Hughes handed-in the...
Opposite effects of host species diversity and parasite genetic diversity
A new paper by Dr Jennifer Rowntree and PhD student Hayley Craig demonstrates how a parasite's genetic diversity affects the community...
Another successful field course in Ecuador
Student numbers were low this year, but nonetheless the Tropical Ecology field course took place in Ecuador once again this summer – we...
Evaluating tools for the spatial management of fisheries
PhD student Steve Canty has published a new research describing a simple and cost-effective way to trace a fish's origin. The paper shows...