The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization organise an emergency meeting on “Emerging High Impact Trans boundary Crop Pests and Animal Diseases”, focussing particular attention on the new invasive Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) that is spreading across Africa. Ken give a presentation on what we can learn from African armyworm outbreaks in the region. Read […]
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Ken writes a new blog post for Global Food Security on the challenges of developing new biopesticides, and attends a recption hosted by Lord Cameron of Dillington at the House of Lords on behalf of The Global Food Security Programme (Jan 11th).
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Congratulations to Pengjun Xu, a collaborator and co-author from CAS in China, who has been awarded a Royal Society-SBFT Fellowship Trust International Fellowship to work in Ken’s lab for two years on a project entitled “Pathogen resistance in a major crop pest”. Pengjun will look at the interactions between armyworms, Wolbachia and biopesticides, starting March […]
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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.
Read MoreAislinn, Ken and various iPEG graduates/collaborators head to Orlando for the International Congress of Entomology. Ken and regular collaborators Sheena Cotter and Fleur Ponton host a Symposium on ‘Invertebrate Eco-Immunology’. Highlights have to be the resident animal-balloons maker and the 12 feet tall giant butterflies (Ken with Nick Priest and Sheena Cotter)! Low light is […]
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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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Journal of Animal Ecology launches a Special Feature on animal host–microbe interactions, edited by Ken amd the Journal’s other Senior Editors.
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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).
Read MoreBobby and Ken attend a masterclass with a local artist to draw and make prints of insects. The event is hosted by LEC and LICA and is attended by local school children to help them understand the links between science and the arts.
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