Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland on the mysterious death of about half the world’s population of saiga antelopes in two weeks. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 24 June 2015)

Biology

Saiga die-off

The Institute of Chemical Biology’s Dragon’s Den-style competition gave doctoral students a chance to win £20,000 by pitching their projects to a team of experts. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 21 January 2015)

Prize pitch

Professor Michael Levitt winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry talks about the impact of computing power on the progress of modern biology

Ernst Chain lecture 2014: Professor Michael Levitt Modelling the molecules of life

In this audio interview PhD student Sam Lloyd explains what makes a species invasive and tells us how Silwood Park’s crayfish have come to dominate the pond.

Fishing for crayfish in Imperial’s Silwood Park pond

In this audio interview Gail Wilson asks Dr Baum how this new molecular map of the malaria parasite's ribosome may open up a pipeline for new drug discovery.

Molecular map inside malaria parasite could lead to new antimalarial drugs

Gareth Mitchell looks down the microsope at the 2014 Imperial Festival to find what enables bacteria to swim. (Podcast 21 May, extract 4/4)

Finding out how bacteria swim

Professor Julie McCann takes her inspiration from nature for writing algorithms that allow distributed wireless networks to become self-organising, adaptive and intelligent.

Julie McCann: Smart dust

Professor E J Milner-Gulland discusses her research on the impact of human activity and political change on the saiga antelope population

Conservation in a changing world

The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine helped us understand how materials are packaged and transported in cells, as Dr Anita Hall (Life Sciences) explains. (Extract 3 of 3 from the Imperial Podcast 30 October 2013)

Vesicle traffic

Emily Humble introduces her MRes project where she is using next-generation sequencing techniques to perform a transcriptome comparison between different species of shark to investigate the molecular basis for endothermy.

Comparative Transcriptomics to Investigate Endothermy in Sharks - Biodiversity Informatics and Genomics MRes

Dominic Andradi-Brown introduces his MRes project investigating tropical mangrove forest restoration effectiveness, the methods and skills he has learnt while conducting it and the importance of mangrove restoration.

Restoration of Mangrove Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Biodiversity Informatics and Genomics MRes

Video taken at the Tsaobis Baboon Project in Namibia. New research from ZSL and Imperial scientists shows baboons choose who to eat with depending on their position in the pecking order. (This video has no commentary)

Baboons rest and groom each other during the heat of the day

Dr Dan Reuman explains how a discrepancy between extinction rates and reality is disguising a catastrophic decline in biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Extinction debt in Amazon rainforest disguises pending biodiversity disaster

The in vivo imaging facility in Imperial's new MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection tracks a mouse bacterial infection over 11 days, showing how the disease spreads throughout the body and how the animal successfully fights off infection.

Real-time bacterial infection

Scientists from Imperial College London have devised a way of producing music from noises without a composer. Dr Bob MacCallum explains the evolution of musical loops created by http://darwintunes.org

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Biology

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