All is quiet at the University before the new academic term starts, but the PhD students are still beavering away in the lab!!
Read MoreThe calm before the storm
- 21st September 2015
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New grant
- 21st July 2015
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Ken wins new grant with Australian collaborators including Prof Steve Simpson FRS FAA at the University of Sydney and the Australian Plague Locust Commission to increase the effectiveness of the biopesticide Green Guard®. The study is funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant and will run for 3 years. Read a new story about […]
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R4All
- 21st June 2015
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iPEG gang (Aislinn, Stephanie, Bobby, Fabio, Ken) and other ecologists get to grips with the R stats package under the expert guidance of Andrew Beckerman and Dylan Childs. Top: Dylan (left) and Andrew (right) debating the merits of R with attendees. Above: Some more of the R4All attendees
Read MoreNew publication in Parasite Immunology
- 21st May 2015
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ex-iPEG post-doc Rob Graham publishes a new paper from his time spent in Australia. The paper is entitled “Body condition constrains immune function in field populations of female Australian plague locust Chortoicetes terminifera” and is co-authored by Juliane Deacutis, Steve Simpson and Ken. Click on the Publications tab for further details.
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Welcome Fabio
- 21st April 2015
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The team are joined by Brazilian recruit Fábio de Assis Pinto, a PhD student from Sam Elliot’s lab at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Tweedle dee and tweedle dum: Bobby (left) and Fabio (right) at the Wray Scarecrow Festival. (c) Catherine Reavey
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Goodbye Catherine
- 21st April 2015
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It’s another sad day as we say goodbye to post-doc Catherine Reavey, who leaves us after just 9 months. We hope to see her back one day.
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End of an era
- 21st March 2015
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Yamini (research technician in iPEG for the past 7 years) leaves us to start a new life with the USA! She will be greatly missed by the rest of the team and by her many friends in Lancaster. Bon voyage, Yamini. Top: Yamini, Phill, Catherine, Bobby & Rachel at Yamini’s leaving party. Above: The team […]
Read MoreTwo new ‘letters’
- 21st March 2015
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Ken and ex-iPEG post-doc Rob Graham publish a new paper in Biology Letters looking at how the effects density-dependent prophylaxis is transmitted across generations. The paper is entitled “Transgenerational effects modulate density-dependent prophylactic resistance to viral infection in a lepidopteran pest”. Ken also co-authors a review on insect migration in Ecology Letters with Jason Chapman […]
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Aislinn at CABI
- 21st February 2015
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Aislinn begins her 3 month placement with CABI, looking at e-plant clinics in Kenya. Photo: Aislinn Pearson © BBSRC Food Security DTP
Read MoreTwo new publications
- 21st February 2015
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Ex-iPEG PhD student Clare Benskin publishes a paper from her PhD thesis on blue tit microbiota in the journal Ecology & Evolution. The paper is entitled “Life history correlates of faecal bacterial species richness in a wild population of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus.” and is co-authored by Ken, Glenn Rhodes, Roger Pickup, Mark Mainwaring […]
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