Predicting development has been a major challenge in genetics, medicine and evolutionary biology. More than half a century ago, Conrad Hal Waddington famously raised several issues in understanding ‘cybernetics’ of…
This talk will discuss killer and humpback whale foraging movements in response to varying prey distributions. Specifically, herring density data and killer whale satellite telemetry are used to show killer whales…
Monica did her undergrad at the University of Barcelona and then moved to St Andrews in 2008 to do an MRes and a PhD at SMRU, after a short period working at SMRU Limited. The PhD focused on the ecology of bottlenose…
Jesse Ausubel began his career in 1977 as a resident fellow with the Climate Research Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. He helped organize the first UN World Climate Conference (1979) and…
How does human activity affect wild animals? In 2020, a major tragedy created an opportunity to find out. As countries went into lockdown, to curb the spread of COVID-19, city centres became deserted, nature reserves…
Hunga Tonga – Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH), one of 22 volcanoes in the waters around the Kingdom of Tonga, erupted violently on 15th January 2022. This eruption triggered shock waves through the atmosphere and generated a…
Dr Dorothea Heimeier (Harrison) The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene family that is crucial in immunity against pathogens, and its diversity can be effectively used as a fitness…
The EMBL TREC expedition is a large-scale expedition with 120 stops across the UK and Europe over the course of a year (https://www.embl.org/about/info/trec/). The purpose of this expedition is to study coastal…
Please join us for a public lecture on the theme of “blue carbon” by Emeritus Professor Hilary Kennedy, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University – Hilary chairs the UK Blue Carbon Forum and has made a sustained…
Yasmin Viana My name is Yasmin Viana, I am a biologist and PhD candidate at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. My thesis is about the alterations in the acoustic communication of Odontocetes across…
