News in 2017
- Bees use invisible heat patterns to choose flowers 19 December 2017 A new study, led by scientists from the University of Bristol, has found that a wide range of flowers produce not just signals that we can see and smell, but also ones that are invisible such as heat.
- Tree crickets 2 optimize the acoustics of baffles to exaggerate their mate-attraction signal 18 December 2017 Object manufacture in insects is typically inherited and believed to be highly stereotyped.
- Fingers on buzzers: Students aim for second University Challenge win 18 December 2017 The University of Bristol’s quiz team returns to our screens tonight [18 December] in their second round University Challenge match again Trinity College, Oxford.
- Fossil orphans reunited with their parents after half a billion years 13 December 2017 Everyone wants to be with their family for Christmas, but spare a thought for a group of orphan fossils that have been separated from their parents since the dawn of animal evolution, over half a billion years ago.
- Bacteria breakthrough marks new era in cellular design and biofuel production 12 December 2017 Scientists at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can bolster cellular productivity, providing the foundation for a new era of cellular protein engineering and biofuel production.
- Major project to tackle crop disease in Africa starts with conference of world-class researchers 8 December 2017 A major new project aimed at tackling the devastation caused by plant disease in Africa will be launched when world-class scientists and researchers from across the UK and Africa visit Bristol for a three-day conference in the new year.
- Pint of Science 7 December 2017 We are looking for scientists to get involved in an exciting collaborative project between Bristol-based Artists and Scientists.
- In mongoose society, immigrants are a bonus—when given time to settle in 5 December 2017 Researchers from the University of Bristol studying wild dwarf mongooses have provided insight into what happens when immigrants join a new group.
- Bristol study resolves dispute about the origin of animals 1 December 2017 New research led by the University of Bristol has resolved evolutionary biology’s most-heated debate, revealing it is the morphologically simple sponges, rather than the anatomically complex comb jellies, which represent the oldest lineage of living animals.
- Feathered dinosaurs were even fluffier than we thought 29 November 2017 A University of Bristol-led study has revealed new details about dinosaur feathers and enabled scientists to further refine what is potentially the most accurate depiction of any dinosaur species to date.
- Biology and chemistry combine to generate new antibiotics 28 November 2017 Combining the innovations of synthetic biology with biology and chemistry, a team of scientists at the University of Bristol have generated a brand-new platform that will allow the production of desperately needed brand-new antibiotics.
- Opportunities for tomorrow’s leaders in earth and environmental sciences 27 November 2017 Applications are now open for funded places on an exciting range of projects offered to PhD students at the University of Bristol on the themes of solid earth, living world and changing planet under the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Programme.
- Dinosaur sported 'bandit mask' 24 November 2017 Countershading and Stripes in the Theropod Dinosaur Sinosauropteryx Reveal Heterogeneous Habitats in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
- Substantial investment to tackle challenges of African vector-borne plant diseases 5 October 2017 The University of Bristol has been awarded £2million to lead a major new project that aims to tackle the devastation caused by vector-borne plant diseases in Africa.
- Resemblance to the Enemy’s Eyes Underlies the Intimidating Effect of Eyespots 5 October 2017 Paper: ’Resemblance to the enemy's eyes underlies the intimidating effect of eyespots’ by K. Kjernsmo and S. Merilaita in The American Naturalist
- Award for best talk at the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Hungary 5 October 2017
- Donald Fraser wins Marsh Horticultural Science award 5 October 2017
- Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats 20 September 2017 A new study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed new light on the origin, timing and habitat in which the chloroplast first evolved.
- The Biology of Color 7 August 2017
- Phototransduction in fan worm radiolar eyes 28 July 2017
- Exploring Innovations Seminar- BBSRC grant 28 July 2017
- Body condition as a quantitative tool to guide hand-rearing decisions in an endangered seabird 28 July 2017
- Thomas E Gorochowski awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship 6 July 2017 Thomas E Gorochowski awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- Job Advertisement: Media Assistant 4 July 2017
- Motor-boat noise makes fish bad parents, leading to the death of their babies 22 June 2017 Noise from motorboats is making fish become bad parents, and reducing the chance of their young surviving, research led by marine experts at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter has shown.
- Dr Shelby Temple was awarded the BBSRC Innovator of the Year award for 2017. 22 June 2017
- Jesus Lozano Fernandez has been awarded £4,668 from the Palaeontological Association Research Grant to study the process and timing by which velvet worms adapted to land. 26 May 2017
- RelTime rates collapses to a strict clock when estimating the timeline of animal diversification 26 May 2017 J. Lozano-Fernandez, M. dos Reis, P. Donoghue and D. Pisani
- Lost in translation: traffic noise disrupts communication between species 28 February 2017 Research by scientists at the University of Bristol has found that man-made noise can hinder the response of animals to the warning signals given by other species, putting them at greater risk of death from predators. Many animals are known to eavesdrop on the alarm calls of other species, effectively translating a foreign language to gather valuable information about the presence of predators. Using field-based experiments in South Africa, the researchers from the University's School of Biological Sciences, demonstrated that traffic noise reduces the likelihood of dwarf mongooses fleeing to the warning signals uttered by tree squirrels.
- Birds of a feather flock together to confuse potential predators 18 January 2017 Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Groningen, in The Netherlands, have created a computer game style experiment which sheds new light on the reasons why starlings flock in massive swirling groups over wintering grounds.
- Isabella Mandl has article published in Bare Essentials Magazine 5 January 2017 Congratulations to Isabella for having her work published in Bare Essentials Magazine
