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One of our Postgraduate students, Helen Holmes, has recently won best poster at the UK Federation of Plant Sciences Meeting in April : At the PlantSci 2013 conference in Dundee this April I enjoyed the presentations, met some great people and was really pleased to come away with the poster prize. Thanks to the UK Plant...

On 20 th June, Dr Robert Bradburne, Head of Science in the Sustainable Land Management and Livestock Farming team at Defra, visited the department. He gave a talk and led a discussion with graduate students about working as a scientist in government, and about the role of science in policy making. This visit followed a...

Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici have been noticed by Scientific American for their images of bacterial growth patterns. Their paper was recently published in ACS Synthetic Biology, showing how complex fractal patterns in colonies of E. coli emerge simply from the physical interactions of rod shaped cells. http://blogs...

Dr Andrew Tanentzap has been appointed to a Lectureship in the Department and will take up his new post in October. Andrew is currently a Banting Fellow at York University in Canada and also conducts research for Landcare Research in New Zealand. He studied for his PhD at Cambridge, supervised by Dr David Coomes.