Come and join us in Exeter next autumn! Applications are now open for a BBSRC SWBio DTP studentship to investigate… Read more Fully-funded 4-year PhD project on hail resistance in crops now open for applications

Do you like weird whacky interdisciplinary research at the forefront of discovery? Would you like to fire objects at plants… Read more Coming soon: fully funded PhD opportunity on understanding and improving the hail resistance of crop plants

We’re excited to finally share the news that, at the end of this year, the Mechanical Ecology Lab will be… Read more We’re moving!

After a very long (pandemic-induced) hiatus, we finally went back to Brunei for some field work in January this year.… Read more Back to the field!

In the latest episode of Genetics Unzipped, I talk to Sally Le Page about how tropical pitcher plants use biomechanical… Read more Ulrike talks pitcher plants with Genetics Unzipped, the podcast of the Genetic Society

Like most (experimental) labs, we struggled to keep up with publishing through the pandemic, with lockdowns and university closures making… Read more Finally, a proper research paper out again today!

Last week, the lab attended the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Montpellier, France. For most… Read more Mechanical Ecology at the 2022 SEB Conference – A full success!

Applications are invited for a fully funded 1-year MScR project on the effects of root surface topography on root-soil cohesion,… Read more Funded MScR project available on the mechanical underpinnings of root-soil cohesion

Thanks to Enhanced Research Funding from the Royal Society, we were recently able to appoint Dr Skylar Johnson as a… Read more The group keeps growing!

We are super-excited that Nathanael Tan has been awarded a competitive Lady Emily Smyth Studentship from the Bristol Centre for… Read more BCAI MRes Studentship for Nathanael Tan