Ken and ex-postdoc Rob Graham (now at Harper-Adams University) have been awarded an RCUK-CONFAP Research Partnerships award to collaborate with researchers in Brazil (Universidade Federal de Viçosa and EMBRAPA) and the UK (University of Greenwich) on a project entitled “Impact and biological control of a new invasive global crop pest in Brazil”. Main photo: Helicoverpa […]
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Dr Hope and Dr Donkersley are awarded their PhDs and reflect on their PhD experience. Dr Philip Donkersley, Dr Rachel Hope and Dr Laura Hobbs at the Graduation Ceremony (c) Lancaster Environment Centre
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Dr Adams successfully defends her thesis “Beekeeping Knowledge, Honey Bee Health and Environmental Stewardship: a Cross-disciplinary Study”. Her examiners were Prof Sally Eden (external) and Dr Ben Neimark (internal). Her PhD supervisors were Rebecca Ellis and Ken Wilson. Well done, Emily! Emily with Rebecca, Philip and Ben post-viva (c) Bobby Holdbrook
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… and out comes “The Sound of Music” CD with mass singing by Catherine, Bobby and Yamini!
Read MoreCongratulations to Philip Donkersely who has had his first PhD paper accepted for publication in E&E. The paper is entitled “Honeybee nutrition is linked to landscape composition” and is co-authored by Ken, Glenn Rhodes, Roger Pickup and Kevin Jones. Click on the Publications tab for further details.
Read MoreBobby completes his term as summer lab assistant and formally starts his PhD on the effects of micronutrients on caterpilar resistance to biopesticides.
Read MoreRob and Ken (plus co-authors) publish a new paper on self-medication on macrontrients in Australian plague locusts, as part of an excellent Special Issue on “Mechanisms of Nutritional Homeostasis in Insects” edited by Jeri Wright and Spence Behmer. The paper, entitled “Locusts increase carbohydrate consumption to protect against a fungal biopesticide” was commissioned following the […]
Read MoreNew postdoc, Catherine Reavey, successfully defends her PhD thesis on burrying beetles, supervised by ex-iPEG member, Dr Sheena Cotter. Well done, Catherine!
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Good luck to Rob Graham (and family), as he starts his new job as a Senior Lecturer in Entomology at Harper Adams University!
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Ken embarks on field activities on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, for the first time in a decade. The field trip is part of an ongoing pilot study to understand the microbiome of Soay sheep. Top: Boreray; Middle: Ken with lambs (left = 2014, right = 2003); bottom: view from Oiselval to […]
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