We study the biology of animals, plant and microbes, from the individual to the population-level, to understand the processes driving the natural world.
We are learning how the current climate and ecological crises affect natural ecosystems, so that we can predict and mitigate these effects. Our health and prosperity rely on healthy ecosystems, which is why understanding them is so important.
We are discovering how species are changing during the climate emergency to understand the long-term consequences of this on the natural environment.
We study how symbionts, pathogens and parasites evolve and the ecological consequences of these evolutionary changes.
We use state-of-the-art genomics methods to discover how species evolve.
Our work is studying the mechanisms and consequences of how members of species interact.
We have developed new methods for handling mice that improves animal welfare.
We have developed software that can be used to quantify the effect that habitat restoration will have on long-distance, multi-generational movement of species.
We are improving the health and life prospects of people in slum communities across Brazil and elsewhere in the world, by studying animal reservoirs of disease, and empowering local communities to effect positive change.
We have two large-scale facilities that artificially manipulate the climate of ecosystems, a facility to study animal behaviour in naturalistic settings and a dedicated centre for multiplatform sequencing and array technologies.
This experimental facility allows us to investigate environmental impacts on freshwater systems, currently studying the effect of environmental warming. It is one of the largest and most technologically advanced facilities of its kind in Europe.
This facility is one of the longest running climate change experiments in the world, focussed on understanding how future climate change will affect grassland ecosystems.
This custom-built facility allows the study of rodents in naturalistic, but controlled, settings and is the only facility of its kind in the UK.
One of the largest facilities of its kind in the UK, the facility provides state-of-the-art next generation sequencing technologies and extensive analysis by a team of bioinformatics experts.
Our research reveals fundamental information about the natural world, but also has immediate, real-world impact. Find out more about our impact.