Department of Zoology, Cambridge

09/08/2023

09/08/2023

09/08/2023

Applications to attend the 2024 Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science are now OPEN and close on 6 September

SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

06/07/2023

10/05/2023

TWO elephants in Cambridge? Our Asian elephant stands at 9 feet tall - it appeared in the opening sequence of the director's cut from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. 🐘🐘🐘 Museum entry FREE.

22/04/2023

How can we reduce harm to wildlife during timber production? To highlight Gianluca Cerullo Conservation
studies dung beetle and birds’ responses to varied harvesting techniques in the tropics, from logging rainforests to getting wood from different timber plantations.

16/03/2023

Are wildlife documentaries showing us the ‘real’ natural world?

16/03/2023

13/03/2023

Fascinating new research

The complete synaptic-resolution connectome of an insect brain has been mapped. This brain, which contains 3016 neurons and 548,000 synapses, is the most complex brain ever mapped in its entirety.

Read more about this achievement from Marta Zlatic’s group (including postdoc Michael Winding) and Albert Cardona’s group, both in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division alongside Joshua T. Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/complete-synaptic-resolution-connectome-of-an-insect-larval-brain/

07/03/2023

Lovely to showcase our Part II Zoology Study programme at the Open Day yesterday