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Dominic has been primarily involved in research on Scottish fruit crops but has carried out research on all the major crop groups and involved in developing a field based hyperspectral imaging platform for use in soft fruit industry. They have been responsible for the development of imaging techniques, image analysis methods and interpretation of the data from such a platform. The main focus of their research has been using hyperspectral imaging to help detect and understand below ground stress in raspberry and blueberry crops. Dominic has also been carried out investigating sources of yield
I have been engaged in projects in over 20 tropical or sub-tropical countries and maintain a strong global peer network for research and results application. Part of my work at SRUC is to contribute to its globally-facing agenda through promoting international collaborations. Before working for SRUC, I was based with work in Kenya for 6 years. . My research interests within SRUC centre on the processes involved in crop domestication, covering a broad spectrum of crops from major staples to orphan crops, and entirely new crops undergoing domestication for the first time. I am interested in
I am Professor of Plant Breeding at SRUC, based at the Edinburgh campus, though I spend most of my time working from home in Essex. I research the development and application of quantitative methods to plant breeding, and am now also involved in some animal breeding projects. The methods I use are those of quantitative genetics and statistics. I started my working life as a commercial plant breeder, including nine years as Research Director of Lion Seeds, Ltd., a company established by a successful management buy-out of which I was part. In 1999 I left Lion Seeds to take an opportunity to
Micha is a bioinformatics specialist with a focus on second and third generation sequence analysis and 14 years of experience in barley genomics, variomics and transcriptomics. He is one of the early pioneers of applying these technologies to barley. Over the years he has been involved in a large variety of projects across most of our crop plant species, but most of his research currently relates to barley. Micha's particular interest is in barley variomics and genomics. He has been actively involved in the last two barley genome projects, and also in the development of the last two barley
Sean Wattegedera joined Moredun in 1999 following his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences (Hons) at Lancaster University. In 2014, Sean became a Senior Research Scientist and completed his PhD (by Research Publications, University of Edinburgh) in 2021. Sean has an interest in cytokine biology and cellular immunology applying this to bacterial and viral diseases of livestock. His main research area is in the understanding of host-pathogen interactions for Chlamydia spp. and developing control strategies for ovine enzootic abortion. Sean is also involved in the development
Joanna has prior experience surveying Scottish smallholders regarding their approach to management and biosecurity in other livestock species, and will bring the experiences gained from that work to bear on questionnaire development and stakeholder engagement.
Caroline has extensive contacts within both the camelid and cervid industries, as well as veterinary clinical expertise as a Veterinary Investigation Officer at one of the SRUC Disease Surveillance Centres, who has experience dealing with cases of clinical disease from both camelid and cervid species and whose work into the quarterly emerging disease surveillance and emerging threats reporting for miscellaneous and exotic farmed species.
John is Professor of disease surveillance at SRUC with extensive experience working with the cervid and sheep industries and government disease control agencies. He spent 8 years working for the provincial government in Alberta, Canada where he provided epidemiological support on many projects and programs to support government disease control projects and programs. Relevant experience includes leading on risk assessments for the cervid industry, including developing models for the spread of disease in the cervid industry, designing and evaluating cervid disease surveillance systems