A team of Imperial students have engineered e.coli bacteria to help plants survive soil erosion, scooping up top prizes at the final of the 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) World Championship at MIT

Imperial iGEM team demonstrate 'Auxin', a genetic engineering project to combat soil erosion

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Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland on the mysterious death of about half the world’s population of saiga antelopes in two weeks. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 24 June 2015)

Saiga die-off

The Institute of Chemical Biology’s Dragon’s Den-style competition gave doctoral students a chance to win £20,000 by pitching their projects to a team of experts. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 21 January 2015)

Prize pitch

Professor Michael Levitt winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry talks about the impact of computing power on the progress of modern biology

Ernst Chain lecture 2014: Professor Michael Levitt                Modelling the molecules of life

In this audio interview PhD student Sam Lloyd explains what makes a species invasive and tells us how Silwood Park’s crayfish have come to dominate the pond.

Fishing for crayfish in Imperial’s Silwood Park pond

In this audio interview Gail Wilson asks Dr Baum how this new molecular map of the malaria parasite's ribosome may open up a pipeline for new drug discovery.

Imperial iGEM team demonstrate 'Auxin', a genetic engineering project to combat soil erosion

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