Global crop yields per hectare have plateaued in recent years while consumption and population continue to grow.

Timothee Bonnet

This seminar begins with the three and a half fold increase in the farm yield of irrigated wheat from 1960 to 2019 in NW Mexico, the homebase of the CIMMYT wheat breeding program

The ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments, especially to artificial environments created by industrial agriculture and modern medicine, is crucial for the success of pathogens infecting plants and animals.

Forest responses to a warming climate

Characterising the mechanism of Lactofungin: a novel antifungal synergent of amphotericin B

‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops.

Inflammasomes: from fundamental biology to new therapeutics

Malaria kills around 400,000 people each year and the prevention and treatment of this disease is highly reliant on chemotherapy.