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New publication in Ecology & Conservation

  • 21st November 2014
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Congratulations 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.

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Welcome to Bobby.. again

  • 21st October 2014
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Bobby completes his term as summer lab assistant and formally starts his PhD on the effects of micronutrients on caterpilar resistance to biopesticides.

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New publication in Journal of Insect Physiology

  • 21st October 2014
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Rob 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 […]

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New publication in PLoS Pathogens

  • 21st October 2014
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Ken and Rob co-author a paper emerging from a new collaboration with Prof Wu and colelagues at IPCC CAAS in Beijing and described the protective effects of a newly-described densovirus on its host, the Old World Cotton Bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. The paper received some press interest – Read More (English) / Read More (Chinese).

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Congratulations to Catherine (Oct 10th)

  • 10th October 2014
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New 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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Farewell to Rob (Oct 1st)

  • 1st October 2014
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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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St Kilda fieldwork (Aug 12th – 21st)

  • 21st August 2014
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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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European Congress of Entomology, York (Aug 3rd – 8th)

  • 8th August 2014
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iPEG presents at ECE2014 in the form of a poster by Aislinn on her PhD work (viruses and migration in moths), and Ken (one talk on African armyworm migration and another, substituting for Jo/Catherine on ‘deconstructing’ insect-pathogen interactions using the geomtric framework for nutritional biology. The latter talk was part of a successful symposium co-organised […]

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