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Investigating why oak trees are dying is helping scientists understand how infectious diseases work
British oak trees are under threat from a disease known as Acute Oak Decline. Mainly affecting mature trees, it can kill them within four to five years of symptoms appearing. However, while researchers like myself have been looking into what causes it, and trying to find a way to prevent it, our work has been hindered in part by the fact that we have to follow a set of scientific rules known as Koch’s postulates.
This article by James Doonan, Postdoctoral Research Officer, School of Natural Sciences is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Publication date: 14 January 2019
Bangor University Venom Day attracts world-leading experts
Toxin enthusiasts from around the globe gathered in North Wales for an annual event organised by Bangor University students.
Leading academics, world experts and a TV star joined over a hundred people for the unique Venom Day conference in Bangor to discuss toxicology and venomous species.
Publication date: 10 January 2019
“For services to tackling poverty abroad and to education in Derby”
Dr Daljit Singh Virk, a Senior Research Fellow at Bangor University is to receive the OBE.
The award recognises the impact of Dr Virk’s scientific contributions as geneticist and plant breeder as well as his leading role in establishing the Sikh faith Akaal Primary School, in Derby in 2015. The free school was established under the Academies Act.
Dr Virk has been at the heart of one of Bangor University’s most impactful research projects, which has contributed to improved food security and livelihoods for millions of households in some of the most impoverished countries.
Publication date: 8 January 2019
Hen harriers and red grouse: Finding common ground in a persistent conflict
A conflict between those working to conserve numbers of hen harriers and those maintaining commercial shooting of red grouse in the English uplands has existed for decades with little sign of progress. Drawing on work conducted in psychology, a new study published recently in the journal People and Nature investigated the underlying values that shooters and conservationists hold that make it so hard to find shared solutions.
Publication date: 21 December 2018
Topping success – A slice of Chemistry for local schools during chemistry week
Publication date: 28 November 2018