2018

PGR students invited Life Sciences Staff to celebrate the Birthday of Prophet Muhammed in the School of Life Sciences Common Room.

Jan Hoole writes for The Conversation UK.

Congratulations are due to Professor Toby Bruce’s group in the School of Life Sciences, who have been invited to prepare a Stage 2 bid for the Research England Expanding Excellence in England.

Jan Hoole writes for The Conversation UK.

A product developed as part of a Keele University partnership has won the Queen's Award for Innovation.

Inaugural Lecture

Dr Peter Thomas was invited to give a plenary talk in June on 'The future of yew (Taxus baccata) in Europe'.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology writes for The Conversation UK.

Professor Chris Arme has been awarded the Distinguished Parasitologist prize this week by the World Federation of Parasitologists.

Katerina presented a poster entitled “Identification of differentially expressed lncRNAs in metformin resistant SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell”.

Keele University’s Professor Toby Bruce has been awarded a major grant of £1.1million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate solutions to the rising problem of the Fall Armyworm, in collaboration with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Kenya.

Jan Hoole and Daniel Allen write for The Conversation UK.

Keele Excellence Awards for Teaching and supporting learning

The 2018 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience has gone to three scientists who have shed light on the fundamental processes of hearing, and helped to explain deafness.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology, writes for The Conversation UK.

Dr Naomi Forrester-Soto has joined Keele University’s School of Life Sciences as Reader in Vector Ecology.

Professor Toby Bruce, Dr William Kirk and Dr Clare Hoskins have just returned from a week-long workshop at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

Professor Toby Bruce, with Dr Clare Hoskins and Dr William Kirk have secured a new grant, “Chemical study of insect-plant interactions: a contribution to biorational control of crop pests”.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele's Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology has been awarded a Royal Society/Wolfson Awards for a major infrastructure development.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology, Keele University writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University’s Chancellor, Jonathon Porritt, CBE officially opened the School of Life Sciences’ £11 million building redevelopment and extension this week.

A Keele-led research project to provide alternatives to pesticides for the control of thrips pests on cowpeas has just held a workshop at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr Joe Roberts, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Insect Chemical Ecology, took part in a Science Media Centre briefing in London this week, presenting his research on managing crop pests and neonics to an audience including senior journalists from Reuters, the Guardian, Financial Times and BBC News.

Harvard Forest, part of Harvard University, has extended the Fellowship of Dr Peter Thomas for an unprecedented third year.