We deliver internationally excellent teaching and research across the broad span of modern biology and environmental science including programmes in areas as diverse as botany, cell and molecular biology, environmental science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, humanitarian action, rural development, sports turf management and zoology.

Our research covers a wide range of areas including animal behaviour, biodiversity, cell biology, developmental biology, the ecology of natural and managed landscapes and ecosystem types including agriculture, forestry, freshwater and marine, evolution, genetics, palaeontology, pest and disease management, plant biotechnology, symbioses, socio-economic dimensions of rural development, humanitarian assistance responses, biology of zoonoses, wildlife management and general zoology.

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BES , UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science

Cluster Leader: Dr. Tasman Crowe