Recent News & Events

• Tanzania's National Heritage: Biodiversity Conservation and Development
• Dr Kathryn Elmer - Salamanders are evidence of older land connection between Central and South America
• Dr Dominic McCafferty's paper on the Emperor penguin - Biology Letters: BBC Nature: Science
• David Livingstone & The Scottish Encounter with Tropical Disease Symposium 2013
• IBAHCM becomes a member of the International Association for Ecology and Health
• Prof. Neil Metcalfe has been awarded an European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, for work on 'The Ecology of Metabolic Phenotypes'. This is the second ERC Advanced Grant to be awarded to the Institute.
• Prof. Neil Metcalfe - The slower you grow, the longer you live: growth rate influences lifespan
• Prof. Rowland Kao - Study finds first direct evidence of tuberculosis transmission between cattle and badgers
• Dr Tim Burton - Bigger fish to fry: egg position affects size and behaviour of young trout
• Dr Annette MacLeod - University of Glasgow plays leading role in award of £2.7m grant for sleeping sickness research (and on the BBC newspages)
• Sarah Cleaveland & Katie Hampson - WHO - Human dog-mediated-rabies: strengthening capacity and raising awareness
• New approach needed to tackle emerging zoonotic diseases
• New appointments - Congratulations to Professor Pat Monaghan who has been appointed the next Regius Chair of Zoology, and welcome to Professor Jason Matthiopoulos who has been appointed Professor in Ecology.  Further details in the MVLS College Newsletter
• NERC, Planet Earth Podcast - Early African dairy farming, seabird migrations - James Grecian
• Chemicals in environment 'damaging male fertility'
• Predicting life span with telomeres
• Prof. Sarah Cleaveland amongst the four Glasgow academics honoured by Royal Society of Edinburgh
• New rabies virus discovered in Tanzania
• Announcing the appointed members of the Strategic Management Board for Veterinary Surveillance
• Project delivers 266 new homes in Pakistan's flood-hit Swat Valley
• Inferring the ancestry of African wild dogs that returned to the Serengeti-Mara - Planet Earth Online
• University of Glasgow scientists urge balance in the war on antimicrobial resistance
• Katie Hampson received the Nexxus Young Life Scientist of the Year award
• Images of Science - Glasgow Science Centre
• Professor Neil Metcalfe and Professor Pat Monaghan have been elected members of the Academia Europaea, in recognition of their international standing in the area of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The Academia Europaea is the European Academy of  Humanities, Letters and Science. Membership of the Academy is by invitation, following nomination and a rigorous peer review process.
• New study set to combat spread of diseases from animals to humans - Prof. Sarah Cleaveland
• Getting Rabies under Control - Prof. Sarah Cleaveland
• Shaun Killen's paper in Nature - "Animal behaviour: Fitter fish lead the pack"
• Prestigious ERC award for Professor Pat Monaghan
• The ecology of infection: Glasgow in Tanzania - Dr Heather Ferguson
• Graham Law's paper cited in The Art and Science of Captive Animal Enrichment - National Geographic Newsletter