Author Archives: Lucy Moore Fuller

Matthew Woodard

Project title: The role of chloroplasts in responding to drought stress in plants Research group: Plants and food security Degrees: Master of Zoology with Herpetology (MZool), Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MSc) Personal website: https://www.mawscience.com/ Twitter & Instagram: @MaW_Science & plants_n_cells Other interests: Wildlife photography, reading, whisky, and gaming. Background I completed […]

Mary Hodgson

During my undergraduate degree, I was involved in a research project in Kenya, investigating the impact of nutrient poor soil on resource allocation to herbivory defence. This is where I became interested in the importance of soil in savanna ecosystems, ultimately leading to my pursuing of a PhD in savanna soil carbon. Savannas occupy 20% […]

Madison East

Hi I’m Madi. I am a 1st year PhD student at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on understanding the mechanism behind coral calcification, so that we can both improve our understanding of past ocean conditions through paleo-proxies, and our estimates of how corals will fair in the future. My research career so far […]

Mairenn Collins Attwood

Mairenn is part of the Spottiswoode group in Zoology at the University of Cambridge, researching evolution in avian brood parasites – birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds (https://www.africancuckoos.com/our-work/). She completed a Master’s degree with the same group last year, working on the interaction between fork-tailed drongos and African cuckoos in […]

Kirsten O’Sullivan

I am a forest ecologist interested in determining the impacts of ongoing global climate change on forest distribution, structure and function. I am in my 3rd year of my PhD at the University of Stirling funded by NERC IAPETUS. My research focuses on subtropical montane forests in Taiwan, where I am investigating changes from the […]