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Professor Robbie Waugh, a renowned barley geneticist based at the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee, has been appointed Director of International Barley Hub (IBH).
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Dr Davide Bulgarelli from the Division of Plant Sciences has been awarded tenure.
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The productivity of cereal crops could get a boost in the future thanks to the discovery of new roles for a master gene regulator that influences the development of barley florets.
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Matthew Parker and Giulia Saredi have been awarded SULSA ECR development funding in the first round of the scheme.
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An international research team including scientists from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee has reached a milestone on the way to unravelling the species-wide genetic diversity of domesticated barley.
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Two life sciences researchers have been awarded Future Leaders Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Natalie Bamford, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the lab of Nicola Stanley-Wall, has been awarded a prestigious two-year EMBO Long-term fellowship.
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Dr Sarah Coulthurst, deputy head of the Division of Molecular Microbiology, has had her Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship renewed for a further five years.
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Senga Robertson-Albertyn received the prestigious RSE Innovators Prize for Public Engagement last week at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Winter Lecture at Wallace High School in Stirling.
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Megan Bergkessel and Leeanne McGurk have been awarded funding from the Springboard scheme of the Academy of Medical Sciences, which is designed to help early career researchers establish their independent research programmes.
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After conducting a field trial at a tomato farm near Ravenna, Italy, a team of plant pathologists and agronomists found that nitrogen fertilizers shape the composition and predicted functions of the plant microbiota.
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Stephen Fry has lavished praise on University of Dundee staff and students who have won awards, named after the University’s former rector, for their success in sharing their work with the public.
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The School has welcomed three new group leaders in recent months. They are currently establishing their laboratories across three of our divisions.
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Dr Sarah McKim from the Division of Plant Sciences has been awarded tenure.
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Professor David Lilley has been made a visiting professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. Nankai is one of the top 20 universities in China and is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year.
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have discovered an enzyme they believe could be key to preventing Group A Streptococcus infections that cause more than 500,000 deaths worldwide each year.
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John Raven, Emeritus Professor from the Division of Plant Sciences, has been awarded the Albert I Grand Medal in recognition of his research in the oceanographic field.
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Ethiopia's National Barley Research Program Coordinator, has started a PhD in Dundee.
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A new study by plant scientists at the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute.
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Scientists have shed further light into the mechanisms through which the potato blight pathogen interacts with plant cells to promote disease.