head of Immunity to multiple pathogens: identification of a fungal immune receptor in barley to ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi Mining genetic diversity in wild barley for disease resistance
selected publications article Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation, and large-scale phenotyping 2024 Discovery and characterization of two new stem rust resistance genes in Aegilops sharonensis. 2017 Strategies for transferring resistance into wheat: from wide crosses to GM cassettes.. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2014 Characterisation and analysis of the Aegilops sharonensis transcriptome, a wild relative of wheat in the Sitopsis section.. PLOS ONE. 2013 An Improved Consensus Linkage Map of Barley Based on Flow-Sorted Chromosomes and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers. Plant Genome. 2011
co-principal investigator on BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme: Advancing Plant Health (APH) Partner Grant 2023 - 2028 Engineering cereal immunity using structure-guided design of effector/host interactions. 2022 - 2026
