Very excited to be a speaker at the Soapbox Science MK event in October! 😊 I'll be talking all about what DNA and RNA can tell us about moths, microbes and migration 🧬🦋

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Our new paper reveals regions of the Amazon with the greatest old-growth forest loss also have the lowest secondary forest recovery. @JosBarlow Erika Berenguer @pjyng ENVISION IOP Publishing @feliasbio #amazon #deforestation #forest #emissions bit.ly/371HpwE

We hope you are as excited as we are to get to know this years speakers...first up it's Amy Withers! mksoapboxscience.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/mee…

Catch me talking about some of my PhD research tomorrow Soapbox Science MK's virtual event! 🧬🦋

Fall armyworm, the crop pest responsible for billions of dollars of damage, has formed a 'super-population' across Africa, according to new genetic study from our Amy Implications for evolution of insecticide resistance. ENVISION rothamsted.ac.uk/news/major-ins…

Great work by Lancaster Environment Centre and Rothamsted Research PhD student, Amy and colleagues on the population genetics of #FallArmyworm in #Africa |Armyworm Network| armyworm.org FAO in Africa FAO Knowledge Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research ENVISION rothamsted.ac.uk/news/major-ins…

So pleased to have submitted my PhD thesis... four years of hard work squeezed into 280 pages! 😁

Rothamsted Research Lancaster Environment Centre Please join the hunt for the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta). Please contact me with any recent sightings of S.exempta 🐛🌱#fallarmyworm #entomology

So pleased to have passed my PhD viva today! I just want to say thank you to everyone who has helped me get here, and to my examiners Steve Sait and @andywwilby for an interesting discussion! 😁

Preprint version of part of our wildlife SARS-CoV-2 screening studies up now (spoiler - no spill over in british horseshoe bats) Sarbecoviruses of British Horseshoe Bats; Sequence Variation and Epidemiology biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper finally up on the pre-print server, we didn't find SARS-CoV-2 in wild mustelids and voles... but did find some other coronaviruses (bat results in another manuscript also Sars negative) lots of work by T e r n e n g e A p a a

Permanent level 4 post (postdoc salary level) in our technical team - working with me on our biosafety management - If you have lab management experience and want to take a step sideways from the academic rat race (or upwards in a technical post) please consider this one

Rothamsted Research Lancaster Environment Centre Please help us (Ken Wilson ‘dudu daktari’ Annabel Rice Dr. Andongma Awawing Irene Gómez, PhD) in our hunt for the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta). Please contact me with any recent sightings of S.exempta 🐛📷#fallarmyworm #entomology Royal Entomological Society