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The Centre integrates world-leading expertise in environmental sciences, ecology, and plant biology around the themes of biodiversity and sustainability. Developing and building on our understanding of fundamental facts and principles, we seek solutions for a sustainable future with solid scientific foundations.
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24-02-2025
Faculty of Science and Engineering
26-08-2024
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Recent Publications
- Genomic and phenotypic evidence support visual and olfactory shifts in primate evolution
Chi H, Wan J, Melin AD, DeCasien AR, Wang S, Zhang Y, Cui Y, Guo X, Zhao L, Williamson J, Zhang T, Li Q, Zhan Y, Li N, Guo J, Xu Z, Hou W, Cao Y, Yuan J, Zheng J, et al.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.
28-02-2025 - Comparative genomics provides insights into chromosomal evolution and immunological adaptation in horseshoe bats
Tian S, Si J, Zhang L, Zeng J, Zhang X, Huang C, Li G, Lei C, Zhou X, Geng R, Zhou P, Yan H, Rossiter SJ and Zhao H
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Springer Nature, 1-16.
07-02-2025 - Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance
Morales AE, Dong Y, Brown T, Baid K, Kontopoulos D-G, Gonzalez V, Huang Z, Ahmed A-W, Bhuinya A, Hilgers L, Winkler S, Hughes G, Li X, Lu P, Yang Y, Kirilenko BM, Devanna P, Lama TM, Nissan Y, Pippel M, et al.
Nature, Springer Nature vol. 638 (8050), 449-458.
29-01-2025
Recent Grants
- The molecular basis of viral tolerance in bats
Stephen Rossiter
£511,378 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
19-11-2024 - 18-11-2027 - Transforming meiofaunal molecular systematics and community ecology through nanopore-based transcriptome skimming
Yannick Wurm
£79,493 NHM Natural History Museum
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028 - Accelerated diversification for climate resilient agriculture
Samuel Pironon
£24,088 Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew)
05-08-2024 - 05-04-2027