Biodiversity genomics event returns

2022-10-03T12:17:00+01:003 October 2022|

This free and open event brings together international researchers to share breakthroughs, challenges and advances in how we apply genomics to understanding, utilising and protecting life on Earth.

Butterflies, peacock spiders, and rapid speciation

2022-12-17T09:09:22+00:007 September 2022|

Dr Joana Meier, new group leader in the Tree of Life programme, describes her research into how and why groups of animals evolve and diversify into new species over millennia.

Marine medicines from the slimiest of worms

2021-11-22T09:58:38+00:0018 October 2021|

“They’re not cute or charismatic. They have toxic mucus. But I like nemerteans because no one is rooting for them – and we know so little about them.”

Genomics for all

2021-11-15T13:37:44+00:0028 September 2021|

In this guest post, Sadye Paez and Marcela Uliano-Silva explore what it takes to sequence the genomes of all life on Earth with the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Bacterial Biomes

2022-07-26T13:08:10+01:0028 June 2021|

"we are well aware that what we know about already is just a small percentage of the diversity that actually exists on Earth."