head of Identifying global regulators of effector gene expression in the rice blast fungus Investigating effector function in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae investigating the role of TOR kinase in the rice blast fungus
principal investigator on BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme: Advancing Plant Health (APH) Partner Grant 2023 - 2028 Development of novel blast resistant wheat varieties for Bangladesh by genome editing 2018 - 2019 Determining the mechanism of septin-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae 2018 - 2019 Development of novel blast resistant wheat varieties for Bangladesh by genome editing 2017 - 2018 Determining the mechanism of septin-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae 2016 - 2018 Investigating the biology of appressorium-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea 2009 - 2013 Investigating the role of autophagic cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea 2007 - 2010 Characterisation of a secretory P-type ATPase required for fungal pathogenesis and induction of host defence 2007 - 2010
co-principal investigator on Engineering cereal immunity using structure-guided design of effector/host interactions. 2022 - 2025 Genome evolution of a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus 2022 - 2024 Molecular and cellular basis of infection-related dimorphism in Zymoseptoria tritici 2016 - 2019 BBSRC-Embrapa Genomics and pathogenomics to improve FHB and brusone resistance in Brazilian wheat 2015 - 2016 A functional genomics toolkit for the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola 2012 - 2015 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy to Investigate Cellular Dynamics in Host-Pathogen Interactions 2013 - 2014
