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Exploring the breadth and diversity of life on Earth 🌍 Updates on research & teaching at the University of Oxford. Merged from Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology August '22.
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Congratulations to everyone involved in ensuring our department's sustainability, who have contributed to achieving our first Beyond Gold award for Green Impact and many LEAF awards this academic year! bit.ly/3WoujUC
Beyond Gold for Biology at sustainability showcase 2024bit.ly
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Great News! Tickets for the #ConservationOptimism Summit 2024 go on public sale TODAY! Buy your tickets NOW through either: 1. The University of Oxford, here - buff.ly/3xJJXQZ 2. Or the Summit ’24 website, here - buff.ly/3Y2u4Qa See you at the summit...
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Seabirds can follow fishing boats for hours, at risk of bycatch; now, we can better estimate how long 🎣 Time geography can be used for any two tracked objects - so could help us protect other animals too 👇 bit.ly/3VQ1grn
Seabirds can follow fishing boats for hours – now we can better estimate how longbit.ly
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🦠 Antibiotic resistance can impact a pathogen’s ability to invade the respiratory microbiome 🦠 A new study with @rwheatley8.bsky.social showed that this can depend on the specific mutation and the type of microbiome bacteria 👇 bit.ly/3VXYTmm
Antibiotic resistance can impact a pathogen’s ability to invade the respiratory microbiomebit.ly
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Very happy to see this published - thanks to reviewers for making it better than preprint. We discovered two distinct transcript profiles in lineages that develop major vs minor veins in maize leaves Excellent work by whole team - particularly 1st author @chiaraperico www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Multiplexed in situ hybridization reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development | PNASwww.pnas.org Leaves of flowering plants are characterized by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with the selection of vein-forming procambial initial ...
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A warm welcome to @rm0sher.bsky.social, who is joining Oxford Biology as a new Professor in Molecular Plant Biology! Rebecca's research focuses on gene silencing in plant systems 🌱 bit.ly/3L4VnSk
Biology welcomes new Professor of Molecular Plant Biologybit.ly
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1 Week To Go!!! Join us on July 6th, 2024, for an unforgettable night filled with inspiring and empowering stories from the natural world, at the sixth annual Good Natured #ConservationOptimism Film Festival! Tickets are just £5 – grab yours now: buff.ly/3KAqRiX
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I’m really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems that’s just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Absolute pleasure of listening to Macarena Marin discuss nodule symbiosis at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social yesterday. Fascinating work!
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Nature underpins our health and our economy - but has been missing from election discussions @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social has co-led a letter to UK political parties, calling for nature to be a priority this election and in the future 🌳 bit.ly/3Razd4j
The UK’s nature restoration plans have some big holes – here’s how to fill thembit.ly Top conservation scientists demand a legally-binding requirement to reverse biodiversity loss at home and overseas.
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The Como Consortium and @OxfordBiology are launching their second course: Infectious Disease #Modelling in Context: Introduction. Applications now open. For more information and to sign up go to Training (como-international.github.io)
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Why do pangenomes vary so much across bacteria? 🦠🧬 We show that bacterial lifestyle is the key factor shaping variation in pangenome fluidity. Read more in our paper out now in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... With Chunhui Hao @lauriebelch.bsky.social Melanie Ghoul @stuwest.bsky.social
PNASdoi.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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🦠 Lifestyle plays a key role in shaping bacterial pangenomes 🦠 New research from @annadewar.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social shows that species which live in more variable environments have more fluid pangenomes 👇 bit.ly/3wC8M0w
Lifestyle plays a key role in shaping bacterial pangenomesbit.ly
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Congratulations to our biology colleagues who were shortlisted and highly commended at the Vice Chancellor awards last week for projects spanning across professional services, teaching, research engagement and environmental sustainability. Read more bit.ly/3QATLD1
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On Copeland Island teaching the @oxfordbiology.bsky.social Avian Behaviour and Ecology field course. Among the excellent seabirds, a few migrants trickling through. Particularly enjoying Greenland Wheatears.
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A new grant with @wildcru.bsky.social and Oxford's Dept of Computer Science will fund development of software to leverage AI to automatically detect and estimate distance to animals in camera trap images 🦬 This will make population density studies of many more species viable 👇 bit.ly/3JOdPOc
New funding will leverage AI to analyse camera trap imagesbit.ly
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We know our gut microbiome is important, but it turns out you are who you greet 🐭🐭 In a new study of wild mice in @natureportfolio.bsky.social, more gut microbes were shared via social contact than a common environment - and they spread different sets of microbes 👇 bit.ly/3UeFSLK
Social connections and environmental contact spread different gut bacteria in wild micebit.ly
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A week left to apply! 🚨 I’m looking for a research technician to join us @oxfordbiology.bsky.social and to help set up an efficient transformation pipeline in the C4 species Gynandropsis gynandra. Come work with us on leaf anatomy and photosynthesis! 🌱🪴 Find out more 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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💥Postdoc in sensory ecology💥 3 year position at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colouration, collective behaviour, fieldwork in nice places, and fun experiments with predatory fish is your thing, please get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ328/p...
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🦇 Happy international bat appreciation day 🦇 This recent study in the Journal of Mammalogy gives us one more reason to appreciate these elusive mammals and explains why bats and their diets are an island farmers friend. 📷 Eva Nóbrega bit.ly/3Q4u7Gm
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From oxygen gradients, to pea pods, to AI, to nervous systems... original, curiosity-led research at Oxford Biology has been supported by these recent @BBSRC grants. We look forward to sharing how this work develops over the years. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4aQRnzA
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CoMo International and Oxford Biology are offering a new training programme: Strategic #Modelling for #PublicHealth Policy. Aimed at entry level modellers working in a range of sectors. Applications now open bit.ly/49BA6cz