Name |
Department |
Research topic |
Giles Oldroyd |
Crop Science Centre |
Sustainable Crop Nutrition |
Elizabeth Stockdale |
NIAB |
Farming systems research, soil science, IPM, including on-farm monitoring. |
Stephanie Swarbreck |
NIAB |
Plant mineral nutrition: nitrogen from uptake to management at the field level |
Sigrid Heuer |
NIAB |
Exploring and exploiting genetic diversity for the development of climate-resilient and nutrient-efficient crops |
Emma Wallington |
NIAB |
Plant transformation |
Tom Wood |
NIAB |
Crop improvement, host-pathogen interactions, pathogenomics and the evolution of virulence, downy mildew species |
Lynn Dicks |
Zoology |
Conservation scientist focused on insect conservation, biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and high quality evidence synthesis. |
Alex Webb |
Plant Sciences |
Molecular Regulation of wheat heading date and chronoculture |
Alexander Jones |
Sainsbury Laboratory |
Comparative environmentally responsive hormone dynamics - wheat, barley, tobacco, strawberry and medicago |
Chris Whitewoods |
Sainsbury Laboratory |
Developmental genetics and crop improvement |
Johannes Kromdijk |
Plant Sciences |
Reengineering photoprotection to improve photosynthetic efficiency |
Beverely Glover |
Plant Sciences |
Plant development/flower development or Pollination biology |
Julian Hibberd |
Plant Sciences |
Engineering photosynthesis for future crop improvement |
Eric Ober |
NIAB |
Physiology-based breeding for improvements in drought tolerance and water use efficiency in crops |
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker |
Crop Science Centre |
Natural variation in susceptibility and resistance to plant-parasitic nematodes |
Nik Cunniffe |
Plant Sciences |
Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, control and evolution of crop pathogens |
Lida Derevina |
Crop Science Centre |
Studying the molecular basis of pathogen suppression of NLR-mediated resistance |
Kostya Kanuka |
NIAB |
Plant virus based functional genomics tools |
Charlotte Nellist |
NIAB |
Dissection of resistance genes controlling extreme disease resistance in brassica |
Uta Paszkowski |
Crop Science Centre |
Sustainable crop nutrition through engineering symbiotic mineral uptake. |
Jeongmin Choi |
Crop Science Centre |
Crop abiotic stress tolerance |
John Carr |
Plant Sciences |
Frontiers in insect-mediated virus transmission. |
Sebastian Schornack |
Sainsbury Laboratory |
Molecular and cellular mechanisms for intracellular plant colonisation |
Ian Henderson |
Plant Sciences |
Investigating genome structure and recombination in crops |
Tally Wright |
NIAB |
The past, present and future importance of quantitative genetics in crop science and plant breeding. |
Fiona Leigh |
NIAB |
Molecular plant breeding and the study of genetic diversity and domestication of crop plants using molecular markers to identify and quantify genotype changes. |
Jake Harris |
Plant Sciences |
Unravelling the epigenetic basis of plant resilience and memory. |
Phil Howell |
NIAB |
Pre-breeding – trying to stop the gene-pool from becoming stagnant |
Oghenejokpeme Orhobor |
NIAB |
Machine learning and big data. |
Nastasiya Grinberg |
NIAB |
Advanced mathematical techniques for crop science: Machine learning and more. |
Natasha Yelina |
Crop Science Centre |
Enhancing meiotic recombination for crop breeding |
Ji Zhou |
NIAB |
Combining AI-powered trait analysis with genetic mapping to advance plant phenomics beyond the state-of-the-art. |