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The Department's Teaching Associate Dr Katharine Hubbard has won a CUSU Student-Led Teaching Award. She has been given an award in the lecturer category for enthusiastic and engaging teaching. 265 nominations were made and 5 awards have been granted. Katharine will receive her award at a reception in the Old Schools on May...

Bioethanol is emerging as one of the most promising non-fossil energy resources. However, ethanol production from sugars obtained from arable crops requires high land areas to meet the energy requirements and so competes with land for food production. As a consequence, the need for alternative bioethanol producers is a...

Nik Cunniffe , Richard Stutt and Chris Gilligan have published work in PLoS Computational Biology showing how control of plant disease via removal of host plants can be optimised. The focal example in their paper is citrus canker, a bacterial disease of citrus trees. The US government spent an estimated $1 billion on...

The Department has been hosting the Cambridge Colleges BioScience Experience over the last few weeks in a bid to inspire the next generation of plant scientists. A total of 92 Year 11 students from comprehensive schools schools across the country have visited us as part of the University's schools outreach work. Dr...