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Mark Viney wins CA Wright Medal

10 April 2013

Mark Viney is being awarded the CA Wright Medal of the British Society for Parasitology.

Bristol Ant Lab in BBC Four Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony

18 March 2013

The Ant Lab at the University of Bristol took part in the BBC Four Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, showing how ants use surprisingly simple rules to solve complex problems.

Plants let chloroplasts know the time

18 March 2013

Plant cells communicate information about the time of day to their chloroplasts, the part of their cells that underpins all agricultural productivity on Earth, researchers at the University of Bristol have demonstrated in a study published today in Science.

Graduate School thriving

4 March 2013

 A host of new international scholars and holders of competitive PhD studentships will join the Graduate School of Biological Sciences in 2013/14

Widespread coverage for research on floral electrical fields

22 February 2013

Research by Professor Daniel Robert, Dr Heather Whitney and Dominic Clarke in the School of Biological Sciences which found that bees and flowers communicate using electrical fields was covered by The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, New Scientist, BBC News, Nature.com, The Australian, Le Figaro, German Public Radio, Globe and Mail (Canada) and other media around the world.