Press Releases
North Sea ‘Lost World’ had habitable forests thousands of years earlier than thought
Ancient DNA study provides best evidence yet that Doggerland, Britain’s lost land bridge to Europe, could have supported humans in the latter stages of the last Ice Age.
Research finds crop breeding can cut methane emissions without sacrificing yield
Genetic selection could help farmers and breeders reduce greenhouse gases from crops, particularly rice cultivation, research by University of ÌÇÐÄTV and Cranfield University shows.
ERC awards ÌÇÐÄTV researchers with prestigious next-generation funding
Dr Hannes Houck and Dr João Monteiro from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV have been awarded €1.5million grants from the European Research Council
ÌÇÐÄTV’s UK Vegetable Genebank deposits seeds in secret Arctic ‘Doomsday’ vault
286 samples of staple British crops from The University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s UK Vegetable Genebank have been deposited into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
ÌÇÐÄTV life scientist and microbiologist awarded prestigious BBSRC Fellowship
Dr Branko Rihtman from The University of Warwick has received funding from the BBSRC to study viruses that kill bacteria, hoping to find new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
ÌÇÐÄTV plant scientist honoured with Royal Horticultural Society Veitch Memorial Medal
Dr. Charlotte Allender, Head of the UK Vegetable Genebank at the School of Life Sciences, The University of ÌÇÐÄTV has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for her work conserving vegetable crop genetic diversity.