News in 2015
- International artist has work commissioned to celebrate the opening of the new Life Sciences building 21 December 2015 Between 4-6 December, international artist Katie Paterson held an open studio, inviting the public to explore a collection of 10,000 samples of wood from almost every country in the world. Commissioned by University of Bristol, Hollow will be a new permanent public artwork imagined by Katie in collaboration with scientists and researchers. Katie has begun a process of research with the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol to produce a new public artwork for Bristol.
- Local artist has work commissioned to celebrate the opening of the new Life Sciences building 21 December 2015 Katie Paterson has begun a process of research with the Department of Life Sciences, University of Bristol to produce a new public artwork for Bristol
- Dr Rick Bruintjes has manuscript published 17 December 2015
- Plant sciences conference involving Bristol, Kyoto and Heidelberg Universities 12 November 2015
- BrisSynBio News 2 November 2015
- Dr Yallop Awarded NERC Grant 2 November 2015
- Huge Funding Success for Professor Edwards 2 November 2015
- Science Academics Win BBSRC Award! 2 November 2015
- A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEW INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS! 2 November 2015
- Bio Sciences Open Day 2 November 2015
- ERP Update 2 November 2015
- Obstacle avoidance by echolocating bats: it might be simpler than it sounds 27 October 2015 Bats compare the volume of an echo in both left and right ears then turn away from the side receiving the loudest echo in order to avoid obstacles, new research from the University of Bristol, published today in PLOS Computational Biology, has found.
- First imagery from echolocation reveals new signals for hunting bats 25 September 2015 The ability of some bats to spot motionless prey in the dark has baffled experts until now. By creating the first visual images from echolocation, researchers reveal we have been missing how bats sense their world.
- Big bio-conference looks at the impact of plant pathogens on everyday lives 14 September 2015 The University of Bristol sees the arrival of scientists from all over the world for the 2015 British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting -‘The Impact of Plant Pathology on Everyday Lives’ - which will run from 13 - 15 September.
- Bristol hosts international conference on plant health 14 September 2015 The University welcomes scientists from all over the world for the 2015 British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) Presidential Meeting, 13 to 15 September
- International Conference comes to Life Sciences 10 September 2015
- Uncovering how plants took over the land 31 July 2015
- Telegraph lists 'groundbreaking' Urban Pollinators project in top 10 27 July 2015 The Urban Pollinators Project has been named one of ten groundbreaking research projects in the UK in the Telegraph.
- Soapbox Science duo awarded by PM 25 June 2015 A pair of inspirational female scientists who founded an initiative that takes science out of the labs and highlights the work of women in cutting edge research have been named Points of Light by Prime Minister David Cameron.
- Bristol academic wins major BES award 23 June 2015
- Fish offer lessons in effective leadership 16 June 2015 Potential leaders trade off goal-oriented and socially oriented behavior in mobile animal groups
- A step further to understanding the structure and functioning of biodiversity 11 June 2015 A recent study conducted at the University of Bristol provides a first attempt to uncovering the relationships between the structure of complex biological communities and their functioning.
- "If fleas were as big as human beings, how high could they jump?" 21 May 2015 All sorts of estimates have been made, but it has now been put to the test.
- Bats obey ‘traffic rules’ when trawling for food 26 March 2015 Foraging bats obey their own set of ‘traffic rules’, chasing, turning and avoiding collisions at high speed, new research from the University of Bristol has found.
- How do humans interact with a changing visual world? 23 March 2015 A new £1.4 million research project led by the University of Bristol will use engineering and science in the design of radically new approaches and solutions to vision-based technology.
- Paper Released in Current Biology 9 March 2015
- The MAD group start the year with two new postdocs 19 January 2015
- New paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 15 January 2015 How to catch more prey with less effective traps: explaining the evolution of temporarily inactive traps in carnivorous pitcher plants
- New £580k EPSRC camouflage grant 7 January 2015 Innes Cuthill, Nick Scott-Samuel and Roland Baddeley (both Experimental Psychology) have been awarded an EPSRC grant of £590k for "The Camouflage Machine: optimising patterns for camouflage and visibility".
