It’s great to have Dr Annabel Rice officially start her new role as research technician in iPEG to work on the new Agri-Tech Catalyst grant to explore new formulation approaches for baculovirus biopesticides to control lepidopteran crop pests. Annabel did her PhD in Lancaster and after some time working as a technician at Liverpool University […]
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The UK referendum votes to leave the European Union (52% vs 48%) and two days later Ken attends pre-planned workshop funded by the BES in Italy to discuss collaborating with European partners on EU Horizon 2020 grant applications – oh, the irony!
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Bobby is interviewed about his placement at the Universidade Federal de Vicosa. View article
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Ken presents iPEG research at the nutritional homeostasis workshop (May 1-4, 2016) at the LIMES Institute, University of Bonn, Germany, organised by Michael Pankratz and Jeri Wright (above)
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It’s that time of year again and iPEG swoop to 3rd prize with a Charles Darwin scarecrow. Watch a video about the scarecrow festival here
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Bobby and Ken fly to Brazil to work at the Universidade Federal de Visosa with Dr Sam Elliot. The visit is funded by Newton Fund for Collaboration grant to Ken and Sam, entitled: “Impact and biological control of a new crop pest in Brazil”. The trip involves lots of field work and a workshop, but […]
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Congratulations Ken and collaborators at the University of Greenwich and Exosect Limited have been award an Innovate UK Agri-Tech Early Stage Catalyst grant to develop a novel formulation approach for baculovirus biopesticides. The grant is due to start July 1st 2016.
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This year’s winter meeting is in Edinburgh and attended by most of iPEG. Great to meet up with ex-iPEG post-doc Kwang Pum Lee, over from South Korea, where he is now a Lecturer. It was an opportunity to test out some GPS data loggers, strapped to the back of Ken’s neck by Luca Borger and […]
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Torrential rains cause flooding in Lancaster city and its environs, including the University, which suffers extended power cuts meaning that all of those valuable samples in the minus 80 freezer are lost forever!
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