The ‘Plant Power Station’ aimed to raise public awareness of the importance of plants, agriculture, pollinators, and sustainability, and ‘plugging yourself into a greener world’ The team headed by Prof Dan Bebber (Agriculture and Environment Research Theme Champion) involved students Read More …
A team of our SWBio DTP PhD students will be attending the Festival of Nature and running a stall titled ‘Pests, Plants and Parasites: How researchers in the Southwest are protecting your food’. To promote this event, some of the Read More …
Name Reach Industries Placement base location Company and lab based in Bristol. If not based in Bristol, will need to find own lab space. Website https://www.reach.industries/ Contact for enquiries Silas Adekunle Contact details Email: silas@reach.industries Placement job title Business Development Read More …
Arguably the greatest issue facing aquaculture today is that of infectious disease. Combine this with the turbulent and ever changing nature of water, prevention and mitigation of aquatic diseases can be challenging. Ideally the old adage “prevention is better than Read More …
Rosie recently won the University of Bristol’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for her talk on ‘Fungal secondary metabolites: exploring a kingdom of possibilities’. Rosie tells us about her experience and some top tips about presenting your research in a Read More …
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on global society, healthcare, governments and mass media. Public dissemination of government policies, medical interventions and misinformation has been remarkably rapid and largely unregulated during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting Read More …
The cornea is the transparent dome at the front of the eye that is essential to maintaining clear vision. In humans, the cornea is comprised of five layers, but in many other species there are only four. Bowman’s layer is Read More …
Zebrafish are one of the most well studied animals on the planet. But how they came by their beautiful black and gold stripes is more of a mystery. Our new research used mathematical modelling – and detailed observations of mutant zebrafish patterns Read More …
A new study has outlined the potential of soil-free, computer-controlled farms as climate change and soil erosion limit our ability to grow crops. This research describes the growing environmental and economic case for vertical farming methods which could see crops Read More …
Diversity in immune systems can slow down or even prevent disease (pathogens) from spreading. We already know that diversity matters, for example in protecting crops and endangered wild populations from pathogens. However, it’s not entirely clear what drives this effect Read More …
Polyploid organisms such as wheat complicate even the simplest of procedures in molecular biology. Whilst knowledge of genomic sequences in crops is increasing rapidly, the scientific community is still a long way from producing a full pan-genome for every species. Read More …
New research shows that pathogens that attack agricultural crops show remarkable adaptability to new climates and new plant hosts. Researchers studied the temperature preferences and host plant diversity of hundreds of fungi and oomycetes that attack our crops and found Read More …
