The fourth edition of the BEES Newsletter is now available.

Maria McNamara has recently featured on two radio shows speaking about a new publication

The inaugural Girls into Geoscience – Ireland event took place last Saturday March 10th at the School of BEES and was co-organised by Dr Maria McNamara of BEES and Dr Fergus McAuliffe from iCRAG.

The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has met with the International Association for Plant Biotechnology team at University College Cork, Ireland and has been updated on progress towards the 14^th quadrennial IAPB congress being held in Dublin in August.

Two graduates of BEES' MSc Marine Biology are about to publish a field guide to Ireland's seashore.

A new exhibition has opened at University College Cork which celebrates the role of plants in medicine.

BEES academic Dr Rossana Henriques has published, with colleagues, a new paper detailiing their discovery that the members of a protein family from the plant internal clock act sequentially to limit the plant growth until the end of the night. This knowledge could help to understand how plants face different kinds of stress that affect their growth, such as drought or high temperature.