The primary focus of CARU is research into conditions associated with ageing. Our aim is to facilitate the development of early assessment and intervention strategies targeted at age-associated degenerative conditions. The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) provides impartial, independent and innovative science that has high relevance to society. We carry out interdisciplinary research into the biology of marine mammals, train marine mammal scientists through undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and advise governments, non-governmental organizations and industry on conservation issues. Special Committee on Seals CBD Seminar:Atypical birdsong and artificial languages provide insights into how communication systems are shaped by learning, use and transmission see also: additional details I will present experimental findings in zebra finches and humans that make use of abnormal song and atypical linguistic input to study processes shaping communication systems: individual learning, social interaction, and cultural transmission. 

Atypical input places increased learning and communicative pressure on learners, so exploring how they respond to this type of input provides a particularly clear picture of the biases and constraints at work during learning and use. Furthermore, simulating the cultural transmission of these unnatural communication systems in the laboratory informs us about how learning and social biases influence the structure of communication systems in the long run. Findings based on these methods suggest fundamental similarities in the basic social–cognitive mechanisms underlying vocal learning in birds and humans. Jellyfish and fish farms: UK and China collaborative research speaker: Dr Zhang Fang and Dr Anna Kintner (Chinese Institute of Oceanography and St Andrews) Enhancing biodiversity on tropical seawalls speaker: Dr. Lynette H. L. Loke (Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore) room: Gatty Lecture Theatre BSRC Seminar: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Innovative Biomedical Education and Training

speaker: Dr. Sandra Urdaneta-Hartmann (Drexel University College of Medicine) BSRC Seminar: Inhibiting asparagine biosynthesis in human cells: a new approach to developing anti-cancer agents speaker: Professor Nigel Richards (Cardiff University, Head of Biological Chemistry) host/contact: Prof David O'Hagan Ecological applications for molecular biomarkers of animal age speaker: Prof. Simon Jarmanwindow ac unit not cooling properly (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto)ac unit size for home host/contact: Prof Andrew Brierleywhere to buy cheap window ac units (University of Exeter ) BSRC Seminar Series: Title TBA speaker: Prof Iain Mattaj

(Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory) host/contact: Prof Jim Naismith speaker: Dr Erik van Sebille SMRU to play key role in NERC ORCHESTRA as it studies the Southern Ocean Research Fellow in Biology - AR1834SB Research Assistant – AR1840MR End of 2016 fieldwork! Start of the annual moult Pups are getting bigger! End of an epic adventure End of the World again There and back again. An explorer’s tale by Joseph Sharman Unit and programme catalogues A-Z list of all units A-Z list of all open units Unit catalogue in 2016/17 The unit catalogue lists information for all units running in the current academic year as well as showing historic data for previous years and provisional data for future academic years. Units are the basic building blocks of study at Bristol. In any given year a student may be taking one or many units each lasting a few weeks or the whole year. mandatory, optional or open.