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Science and Plants for Schools
Contribution to the powdery mildew citizen science scheme has recently been added as an optional activity for GCSE teachers to involve their students in. I have managed to collaborate with Alistair...
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Investigating novel DNA regions for increasingly efficient identification of...
Here is the presentation I will deliver at the 17th Congress for the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (17-21 July, 2016) at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon....
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Powdery Mildew Citizen Science
Here is the poster I will deliver at the 17th Congress for the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (17-21 July, 2016) at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon. It...
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2016 IS-MPMI XVII Congress
The 17th Congress for the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions takes place next week (17-21 July, 2016) at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon. This will be my...
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MPMI16
The 17th IS-MPMI congress was a great success for the almost two thousand members involved. Presentations varied largely, with specialists and generalists all showing off their microbial knowledge on...
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Powdery Mildews of Portland, Oregon
Unsurprisingly the USA also seems to be full of powdery mildews. The Gallery below shows a small selection of those that have been lucky enough to be photographed by myself.
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Powdery Mildew in The Rock Garden
The powdery mildew survey has appeared in the July 2016 edition of ‘The Rock Garden‘, a journal disseminated by the Scottish Rock Garden Club. The Club take interest in promoting the cultivation of...
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The Dynamic Fungus
This week I attended the joint meeting of the British Mycological Society and the Microbiology Society entitled The Dynamic fungus. It certainly lived up to its name. The conference was held at the...
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BSPP Presidential Meeting 2016
Food security, Biosecurity and Trade; the role of plant health It was a long week. Long, but hugely rewarding. It all kicked off with an early morning train to Oxford and an extended bike ride around...
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Grand Challenges in Plant Pathology Interdisciplinary Study Group
This weeks BSPP conference was followed by the first ever BSPP study group. Attended mainly by PhD students, the three-day workshop intended to address challenging plant pathology issues the world must...
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RHS John MacLeod Lecture & Marsh Christian Trust Award
The RHS’ annual horticultural lecture took place yesterday, Thursday 10th November. This event has grown in stature each year I have attended, since beginning my PhD back in 2013. This year we were...
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Advent Botany 2016 – Day 10: Hoop-petticoat daffodils
By Jordan Bilsborrow and Kálmán Könyves Narcissus bulbocodium found in Sierra de Urbasa, Spain (J. Bilsborrow) Daffodils are very popular garden plants and an important commercial crop both as bulbs...
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Advent Botany 2016 – Day 13: Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) – so good...
Editor’s note: For the first time we have a plant so popular that two different institutions have offered a blog on it. They take a different approach so here you have both: one from Manchester...
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Microbiology Society – Annual Conference 2017
Next week (Monday 3 April to Thursday 6 April) I will be travelling to Edinburgh, Scotland for the 2017 Annual Conference for the Microbiology Society; my first time North of the border into Scotland....
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Powdery Mildew Identification: Improving accuracy using previously untapped...
Here is the poster I will deliver at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2017 (3 – 6 April) at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland. It aims to offer an insight into the...
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PhD Conferences 2013-2017
During my time as a PhD student at the University of Reading I have been lucky enough to attend a number of conferences, summer schools, and annual meetings and take part in various other outreach...
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Palm trees in British Gardens
Phoenix canariensis growing in Torbay (CC BY-SA 2.0 Torbay Palms) With the publication of the RHS Gardening in a Changing Climate report yesterday we will be launching a survey of which palms are...
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PhD Viva, Corrections, Thesis submission, and Graduation
On 7th June 2017 the ‘Increasing accuracy of Powdery Mildew (Ascomycota, Erysiphales) identification using previously untapped DNA regions’ thesis was examined. Corrections for the thesis were accepted...
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Powdery Mildew Genomics Workshop 2017
The 7th Powdery Mildew Genomics Workshop 2017 concluded on Friday 15th September, 2017. The meeting followed on from another powdery mildew summer school, which I was unable to attend, and both were...
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EMA conference / Ohrid, Macedonia
Following last months Powdery Mildew Workshop in Eger, Hungary, I toured eastern Hungary; Tokaj and Debrecen, before travelling to Belgrade, Serbia, and Sarajevo and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina....
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