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Welcome to Awa!

1st November 2021
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Welcome to Dr Andongma Awawing Anjwengwo who joins iPEG as a Senior Research Associate stufying the role of nutrition in determining the outcome of host-parasite interactions

22nd October 2021
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Congratulations to Amy Withers, who has just published the first paper from her PhD, entitled “Microsatellites reveal that genetic mixing commonly occurs between invasive fall armyworm populations in Africa“

12th August 2021
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Congratulations to iPEG’s Yutao Xaio, Ken Wilson and aluminus ‘PJ’ Pengjun Xu, and our great team of Chinese collaborators on our latest paper looking at the rapid spread of a densovirus in China following the adoption of Bt-cotton, published in eLife tis month: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66913

7th July 2021
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Ken has been awarded a new BBSRC grant with Sheena Cotter (Lincoln) and Tom Anderson (NOC) to work on testing a new theoretical framwork (developed by Tom) to explore the nutritional interactions between hosts and their pathogens, using Spodoptera caterpillars and their bacteria as model systems. A post-doctoral research associate post will be advertised soon! […]

2nd June 2021
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Welcome to Dr Yutao Xiao, who joins us from the CAAS Genomics Centre in Shenzhen, China. Yutao will be with us for two years on a Newton International Fellowship and will be working on Spodoptera genomics.

Why do we sometimes see “random” viral outbreaks? (Animal Ecology in Focus)

21st April 2021
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Armyworms are important caterpillar crop pests in Africa and, in the early 1990s, Ken was a young postdoc based in Kenya studying the migration of adult armyworm moths*. As part of this, he would visit lots of high-density armyworm ‘outbreaks’. What struck him most during these visits was that at some outbreaks all of the […]

Welcome to new PhD student – Tabitha Sleap

1st January 2021
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Welcome to Tabs who joins iPEG to conduct a PhD project looking at the role of nutrition in bacterial growthand its application in applied industrial settings. Tabs is co-supervised by Prof Roger Pickup (BLS, Lancaster) with industrial partners Active Bacterial Solutions (dr Bobby Holdbrook, iPEG alumnus).