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Increases in temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula during the latter part of the 20th century were accompanied by an acceleration in moss growth, scientists have learned. Writing in the journal Current Biology they describe the activity as unprecedented in the last 150 years. The Peninsula sustains moss banks some of...

Gizmodo's Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan has written about Fernan's confocal microscope images: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/07/10-extreme-and-extremely-pretty-close-ups-of-bacteria-and-plants/ If you want to see more of them, Fernan has a Flikr account . Fernan is a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Prof. Jim Haseloff's...

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...