In collaboration with Rothamsted Research and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Lancaster Environment Centre launches its Grad School for the Environment to host and nurture the next generation of environmental scientists, in the broadest sense.
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iPEG goes on the road to present at the Royal Entomological Society meeting at Harper Adams in Shropshire. A good opportunity to catch up with ex-iPEG post-doc, Rob Graham, now a Senior Lecturer at HAU. Also provided an opportunity to formally sign the RES’s register of fellows. Top: Ken’s signature is last on the page, […]
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Former PhD student, Libby Redman, Ken and long time collaborator Jenny Cory publish a new paper in Journal of Animal Ecology from Libby’s PhD on ‘trade-offs and mixed infections’ in the armyworm baculovirus (click on the Publications tab to download the paper).
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The UK referendum votes to leave the European Union (52% vs 48%) and two days later Ken attends pre-planned workshop funded by the BES in Italy to discuss collaborating with European partners on EU Horizon 2020 grant applications – oh, the irony!
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Bobby and Ken fly to Brazil to work at the Universidade Federal de Visosa with Dr Sam Elliot. The visit is funded by Newton Fund for Collaboration grant to Ken and Sam, entitled: “Impact and biological control of a new crop pest in Brazil”. The trip involves lots of field work and a workshop, but […]
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Congratulations Ken and collaborators at the University of Greenwich and Exosect Limited have been award an Innovate UK Agri-Tech Early Stage Catalyst grant to develop a novel formulation approach for baculovirus biopesticides. The grant is due to start July 1st 2016.
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Torrential rains cause flooding in Lancaster city and its environs, including the University, which suffers extended power cuts meaning that all of those valuable samples in the minus 80 freezer are lost forever!
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And they’re off…
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