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Global Climate Strike
I will take part today in the Global Climate Strike, specifically, the event held here on the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus. I teach two undergraduate modules ‘Living with Environmental Change’ and ‘Oceans and Human Health’. Both modules focus on … Continue reading
on bioRxiv: Using the Wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens
In the past few years I have worked on and off (i.e. doing pilot experiments, having a grant proposal rejected) on a very simple, but I believe quite powerful, assay to detect pathogenic bacteria in environmental samples. As it stands, … Continue reading
Living with Environmental Change 2016/2017
I am reaching the end of the semester teaching the module ‘Living with Environmental Change’ together with Professor Lora Fleming. (I have written four blog posts I, II, III and IV last year about the first time we ran this … Continue reading
Living with Environmental Change IV
Our module ‘Living with Environmental Change’ ended a few weeks back and it is high time for a (brief) wrap up after the previous posts highlighting the guest lectures on the course (here, here and here). As the module was … Continue reading
Posted in cool science, environment and human health, Living with Environmental Change
Tagged Bouke Wiersma, ECEHH, Edvard Glucksman, ESI, HEPE, Katrina Wyatt, Living with Environmental Change, Lora Fleming, Mel Austen, Pecha Kucha, Peter Cox, Rachel Turner, Ruth Garside, Steve Simpson, teaching, Tim Taylor
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Living with Environmental Change III
Another update on our currently running module “Living with Environmental Change” and another host of excellent guest speakers. At St. Lukes, we had the pleasure to hear Dr. Fiona Mathews talk about “The Environment and Reproductive Health”. Fiona has done … Continue reading
Living with Environmental Change I
This semester, head of the European Centre Professor Lora Fleming and myself have started the brand-new undergraduate module “Living with Environmental Change”. Somewhat complicatedly, we are teaching this module to students in different years and in two different locations: the … Continue reading