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Advanced technology
Soil and environment
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Assistant Professor |
Salim Alam |
Atmospheric Sciences
- air pollution
- analytical chemistry
- atmospheric chemistry
- modelling
- air quality
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Animal and livestock
Fundamental biology
|
Professor |
Ramiro Alberio |
Developmental Biology
- stem cells
- embryos
- development
- epigenetics
- germ cells
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Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Dr |
Kamal Alskaf |
Sustainable Agriculture
- climate smart agriculture
- sustainable soil management
- conservation agriculture
- agroecology
- farmer behaviour
- multimodal training
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Animal and livestock
Advanced technology
Fundamental biology
Nutrition and health
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Associate Professor |
Ravinder Anand-Ivell |
Physiology and Endocrinology
- health across the lifespan
- control systems of reproduction
- cells and hormones
- lifestyle
- nutrition
- and healthy ageing
- environmental endocrine disruption
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Advanced technology
Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Dr |
Jon Atkinson |
Plant Sciences
- phenotyping technology
- plant physiology
- root-soil interactions
- anatomics
- tropisms
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Nutrition and health
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Associate Professor |
Amanda Avery |
Nutrition and Dietetics
- diet and health
- infant nutrition
- pregnancy
- weight management
- diabetes
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Advanced technology
Soil and environment
|
Professor |
Liz Bailey |
Environmental Geochemistry
- trace element geochemistry and pollution
- soil-plant-animal/human transfer of mineral micronutrients
- mineral bioaccessibility
- analytical geochemistry
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Plant and crop
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Associate Professor |
Leah Band |
Mathematical Modelling of Biological Processes
- multiscale modelling
- plant hormones
- growth and development
- systems biology
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Advanced technology
Fundamental biology
Plant and crop
Soil and environment
|
Professor |
Malcolm Bennett |
Plant Science
- root development
- phenotyping
- systems biology
- root-soil interactions
- abiotic stress
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Fundamental biology
Plant and crop
Soil environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Rahul Bhosale |
Functional genomics, bioinformatics, root biology, abiotic stresses
- functional genomics
- plant bioinformatics
- genetics
- root growth and development
- abiotic stresses
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Advanced technology
Microbiology
|
Associate Professor |
Nagamani Bora |
Biotechnology
- bioprospecting
- bioprocessing
- expression and enhancement of therapeutic proteins
- sustainability
- microbiomes
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Animal and livestock
Nutrition and health
|
Professor |
John Brameld |
Nutritional Biochemistry
- regulation of body composition
- growth and metabolism
- alternative protein sources and gut digestion
- molecular and cellular nutrition
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Microbiology
Fundemental Biology
|
Assistant Professor |
Ivan Campeotto |
Microbial Biotechnology
- Protein crystallography
- Biotechnology
- Biophysical techniques
- Immunogen design
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Plant and crop
Microbiology
Fundemental Biology
|
Associate Professor |
Gabriel Castrillo |
Plant-Microbiome Interactions, Plant Nutrition
- microbiome
- mineral nutrients
- ionomics
- growth promotion
- regularity networks
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Advanced technology
Animal and livestock
Fundamental biology
Plant and crop
|
Assistant Professor |
Osvaldo Chara |
Computational Biology, Developmental Biology, Regenerative Biology
- tissue morphogenesis
- computational modelling
- tissue mechanics
- tissue architecture
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Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Advanced technology
|
Dr |
Tino Colombi |
- biophysics/-mechanics
- imaging
- plant-soil-microbe systems
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Food and drink
|
Professor |
David Cook |
Brewing Science and Technology
- beer flavour and flavour stability
- malting science and technology
- brewing raw materials quality and functionality
- sustainable innovations in malting and brewing
- improving sensory quality of low alcohol beers
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Advanced technology
Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Hannah Cooper |
Climate smart agriculture
- regenerative agriculture
- soil carbon, soil science
- soil health
- greenhouse gas emissions
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Food and drink
Nutrition and health
|
Assistant Professor |
Tristan Dew |
Nutritional Biochemistry
- metabolomics
- mass spectrometry
- molecular phenomics
- polyphenols
- functional foods
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Food and drink
Advanced technology
|
Associate Professor |
Vincenzo di Bari |
Food and Drink
- Gels for food structure design
- Emulsions and emulsification technologies
- Edible packaging solutions
- Physical processing for food functionality
- Phase transitions (Crystallisation, Melting and Glassy states) in foods
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Plant and crop
|
Assistant Professor |
Stella Edwards |
Plant Physiology, Photosynthesis, Cereal Genetics
- photosynthesis
- plant physiology
- cereal genetics
- cytogenetics
- wheat
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Food and drink
Nutrition and health
Advanced technology
|
Associate Professor |
Sally Eldeghaidy |
Neuroimaging
- brain-gut axis
- obesity and diabetes
- appetite and satiety
- gut digestion
- taste, aroma and flavour perception
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Fundamental biology
Plant and crop
|
Dr |
Sina Fischer |
Ion Homeostasis
- whole genome duplication
- arabidopsis thalinana
- neo-tetraploids
- ionome
- expression
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Food and drink
|
Professor |
Ian Fisk |
Flavour
- flavour
- food chemistry
- salt reduction
- aroma release
- hyperspectral imaging
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Fundamental biology
Advanced technology
Plant and crop
|
Professor |
Rupert Fray |
RNA Biology and Nucleotide Modifications
- epitranscriptomics
- mRNA
- pot-transcriptional
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Plant and crop
Sustainable agriculture
|
Dr |
Alex Gibbs |
Fellow in Plant Physiology
- canopy architecture
- photosynthesis
- 3D reconstruction
- alternative cropping systems
- plant physiology
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Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Nick Girkin |
Biogeochemistry
- greenhouse gases
- sustainability
- nature-based solutions
- regenerative agriculture
- ecology
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Food and drink
|
Assistant Professor |
Joanne Gould |
Food Science
- food processing
- food structure
- extrusion
- protein
- insects
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Plant and crop
|
Dr |
Neil Graham |
Plant Mineral Nutrition
- plant nutrition
- biofortification
- root architecture
- gene mapping
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Plant and crop
|
Assistant Professor |
Surbhi Grewal |
Wheat Genetics
- wheat wild relatives
- introgressiomics
- wheat cytogenetics
- KASP markers
- wheat genomics
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Microbiology
|
Assistant Professor |
Laura Hobley |
Microbiology
- biofilms
- predatory bacteria
- bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- bacterial interactions
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Microbiology
|
Associate Professor |
Jon Hobman |
Microbiology
- antibiotic resistance
- antimicrobial metal resistance
- toxic metals
- mobile genetic elements
- Escherichia coli
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Plant and crop
Fundamental biology
Sustainable agriculture
|
Professor |
Michael Holdsworth |
Crop Science
- oxygen-sensing
- abiotic stress
- ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis
- plant genetics
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Nutrition and health
|
Assistant Professor |
Preeti Jethwa |
Human Nutrition
- appetite
- energy balance
- metabolic diseases
- micronutrient deficiencies
- neuro
- gut-peptides
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Plant and crop
|
Professor |
Julie King |
Wheat Wild Relative Introgression
- wheat
- introgression
- genotyping
- cytogenetics
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Nutrition and health
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
Plant and crop
|
Dr |
Diriba Kumssa |
Bioscience
- agroforestry
- forestry
- geographic information science
- biofortification
- dietary mineral nutrition
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Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Professor |
Murray Lark |
Environmental Statistics
- agricultural development
- soil information
- sampling and experimental design
- history of colonial soil survey
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Food and drink
Microbiology
Nutrition and health
|
Assistant Professor |
Stephen Lawrence |
Fermentation and Functional Beverages
- brewing
- functional beverages
- fermented foods
- food safety
-
alternative proteins
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Soil and environment
|
Associate Professor |
Barry Lomax |
Plant and Climate Interactions Through Time
- palynomorph chemistry
- chemotaxonomy
- environmental change
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Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Sarah Luke |
Ecology and Conservation
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- land-use change
- tropical agriculture
- habitat restoration and management
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Animal and livestock
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Jean Margerison |
Animal Science
- nutrition
- physiology
- behaviour
- emissions
- sustainability
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Food and drink
Nutrition and health
Plant and crop
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Sean Mayes |
Crop Genetics
- underutilised crops
- quantitative genetics
- trait inheritance
- global food and nutritional security
- genetic diversity
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Soil and environment
|
Assistant Professor |
Roseanna Mayfield |
Long-term climate and environmental change
- lake science
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- greenhouse gases,
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Food and drink
Plant and crop
Advanced technology
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Guillermina Mendiondo |
Translational Crop Science
- abiotic stress
- crops
- molecular biology
- germination
- crop physiology
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Soil and environment
|
Professor |
Sacha Mooney |
Soil Science
- soil science
- root-soil interactions (rhizosphere)
- sustainable soil management
- soil health
- X-ray imaging
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Food and drink
Nutrition and health
|
Assistant Professor |
Molly Muleya |
Food science and nutrition
- gut digestion
- bioaccessibility and bioavailability
- protein quality
- mineral micronutrients
- sustainable food systems
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Animal and livestock
Microbiology
Fundamental biology
Soil and environment
|
Associate Professor |
Ellen Nisbet |
Microbiology
- dinoflagellate algae and coral reefs
- chloroplast and mitochondrial genetics
- malaria
- algal vaccines
- RNA processing
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Advanced technology
Fundamental biology
Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Bipin Pandey |
Genomics, genetics and cell biology
- soil compaction
- mechanosignalling
- hormones
- root adaptation
- climate change
|
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Nutrition and health
Animal and livestock
|
Professor |
Tim Parr |
Nutritional Biochemistry
- alternative protein sources
- insect production
- metabolism
- regulation of body composition
- skeletal muscle metabolism
|
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Food and drink
Fundamental biology
Microbiology
|
Assistant Professor |
Chris Powell |
Yeast and Fermentation Science
- yeast
- brewing
- fermentation
- microbiology
- microbial physiology
|
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Plant and crop
Soil and environment
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Amanda Rasmussen |
Plant Physiology
- adventitious roots
- plant physiology
- maize
- cutting propagation
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Plant and crop
Sustainable agriculture
|
Professor |
Rumiana Ray |
Plant Pathology
- disease resistance
- host-pathogen-pest interactions
- mycotoxins
- physiology of disease
- integrated disease management
|
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Microbiology
|
Professor |
Cath Rees |
Applied Microbiology
- mycobacterial infections
- listeria molecular biology
- bacteriophage applications
- diagnostics
- food safety
|
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Food and drink
Advanced technology
|
Assistant Professor |
Joshua Reid |
Functional Food Chemistry
- Solution chemistry of food molecules
- Dietary fibre: food as medicine
- Functional food development
- Complex carbohydrate analysis
- Waste valorisation in food production
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Food and drink
Nutrition and health
|
Associate Professor |
Jake Sallaway-Costello |
Public Health Nutrition
- health promotion
- salutogenesis
- health sociology
- community nutrition
- ethnography
|
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Fundamental biology
|
Associate Professor |
David Scott |
Structural Biology and Biophysics
- structural Biology
- biophysics
- physical biochemistry
- protein crystallography
- cryo Electron Microscopy
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Advanced technology
Microbiology
Sustainable agriculture
Soil and environment
|
Assistant Professor |
Nasrollah Sepehrnia |
Enviromental Soil Physics
- soil water repellency
- microplastics
- bacteria and colloid transport
- environmental pollution
- soil structure
|
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Food and drink
Animal and livestock
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Christina Siettou |
Agricultural Economics
- economics
- animal health
- animal welfare
- consumer behaviour
- food
|
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Advanced technology
Fundamental biology
Microbiology
Sustainable agriculture
Soil and environment
Animal and livestock
Plant and crop
|
Professor |
Dov Stekel |
Computational Biology
- mathematical models
- computer models
- antimicrobial resistance
- microbiology
- agriculture and environment
|
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Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Stacia Stetkiewicz |
Sustainable Agriculture
- sustainable food systems
- stakeholder engagement
- interdisciplinary
- food choices
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Fundamental biology
|
Associate Professor |
Carl Stevenson |
Neuroscience
- fear learning and memory
- neuropharmacology
- sex differences
- animal models
- anxiety
|
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Fundamental biology
|
Associate Professor |
Reinhard Stoger |
Molecular Biology and Epigenetics
- DNA modificatons
- gene-environment interactions
- epigenetic clocks
- developmental programming
- gene dosage
|
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Plant and crop
Sustainable agriculture
|
Associate Professor |
Ranjan Swarup |
Molecular Biology and Genetics
- root and lateral root development
- auxin
- molecular mechanisms
- biostimulants
- global food security
|
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Plant and crop
|
Research Fellow (joint supervisor) |
Alison Tidy |
Abiotic Stress
- plant reproduction
- molecular mechanisms
- pollen
- plant microbial fuel cell
- abiotic stress
|
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Plant and crop
Fundamental biology
Sustainable agriculture
|
Assistant Professor |
Ute Voss |
Plant Science
- plant development
- root architecture
- plant hormones
- auxin
- stress response
|
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Nutrition and health
|
Associate Professor |
Simon Welham |
Nutritional Science
- mineral micronutrients
- maternal nutrition
- fetal programming
- food security
- renal development and disease
|
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Advanced technology
Plant and crop
Fundamental biology
|
Dr |
Darren Wells |
Principal Research Fellow in Plant and Crop Biophysics
- plant physiology
- plant phenotyping
- tropisms
- imaging technology
- anatomics
|
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Sustainable agriculture
|
Professor |
Paul Wilson |
Agricultural Economics
- sustainability
- agricultural systems
- technical efficiency
- farmer behaviour
- food choice
|
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Plant and crop
|
Professor |
Zoe Wilson |
Plant Developmental Biology - Plant Reproduction
- pollen and anther development
- plant reproduction
- abiotic stress
- plant gene networks
- crop fertility
|
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Food and drink
|
Assistant Professor |
Ni Yang |
Flavour Science
- spicy food
- chilli Flavour
- flavour release
- sustainable flavour
- novel flavour application
- multimodal training.
|
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Food and drink
|
Assistant Professor |
Qian Yang |
Sensory and Consumer Science
- sensory
- consumer behaviour
- sustainability
- individual variation
- smart technology
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