Milner Centre for Evolution

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Will Matlock, a Welcome Trust early career fellow and a computational biologist who works on bacterial genomics and antimicrobial resistance.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Associate Professor Guillaume Méric, about his research focusing on the human microbiome.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, discusses the phenomenon of convergent evolution with Professor Matthew Wills. They also discuss carcinisation and characteristics that evolve repeatedly across the evolutionary tree of life.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Robert Kelsh, about his research focusing on fundamental questions in developmental biology.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun, about her research focusing on understanding how animal diets interact with gut microbiomes to shape nutrition, health and fitness in the wild. Her research sits at the interface of ecology, evolution and microbiome science.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr. Corey Holt, about his research focusing on microbial diversity and host-microbe interactions in the marine environment.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tom Williams, about being part of a study trying to understand the evolution of eukaryotic cells, a formative event in the history of life on Earth.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Zamin Iqbal, about being part of a study mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution, to understand just how bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics over the last few decades.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Chris Packham, the naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author, whose best known for presenting Springwatch, Autumnwatch, Winterwatch, programmes about nature, neurodiversity, dinosaurs, cats, dogs and honeybees.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Volkan Cevik, whose research focuses on understanding interactions between plants and their pathogens, as well as understanding how these pathogens evolve.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Neil Brown, whose research focuses on discovering new ways to fight major fungal diseases that threaten our food security and health.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Laurence Hurst whose new book titled; The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren't and Can't Be Perfect, has just been published.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Lauren Cowley whose research centres around public health and infectious diseases. She works closely with the UK Health Security Agency.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Paula Kover whose research focuses on understanding how an organism's environment affects the evolution of traits under natural selection.

Professor Turi King discusses the results of a scientific paper about the evolution of hearing, which explores the combined impact of biological and environmental factors on how our ears respond to sound. The study was the brainchild of Dr. Patricia Balaresque who got really interested in the different factors, such as our sex or environment, that might have shaped our hearing sensitivity. This gr...

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Leslie Turner about her research on our understanding how speciation takes place.

Ahead of the Milner Centre for Evolution's Darwin Day lecture 2025, Professor Turi King spoke with Professor Ben Garrod about his career, his involvement in science communication and his passion for all things evolution.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Daniel Henk whose research focuses on the evolution and ecology of fungi.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Zamin Iqbal about his research that uses computers to look at the genetic makeup of disease-causing bacteria to understand how they evolve and how they're becoming resistant to antibiotics.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Ed Feil about his research using genetics to understand the evolution and spread of infectious bacteria of humans and animals, as well as antimicrobial resistance, which is a major threat to global health and food security.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks Associate Professor Emma Stone about her research. Emma leads the Bat Conservation Research Lab. Her research is around conservation biology, in particular the behavioural and ecological responses of wildlife to changes in the environment. She's also recently been awarded a lottery fund grant for a citizen science project,...

Professor Turi King, director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, discusses Dr Nick Priest's research paper into the identification of the multiple drivers of cactus diversification, published in Nature Communications.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tamás Székely about his latest scientific paper titled, The Evolution of Sex Roles: The Importance of Ecology and Social Environment, which has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Andrew Preston about his research into the group of organisms called Bordetella. The most prominent member of the Bordetella group is Pertussis which causes Whooping cough, a disease that is on the rise again.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Benjamin Padilla-Morales about the research paper he is first author on, and that has just been published in Nature Communications, titled: Sexual size dimorphism in mammals is associated with changes in the size of gene families related to brain development.