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Marc is senior scientist in Environmental and Biochemical Sciences at the James Hutton Institute. He Work Package Co-ordinator for water resources and flood risk management. Hi background as a catchment biogeochemist gives him a vast understadning across different disciplines, including hydrology, chemistry and ecosystems.
"The detailed variations at the level of the bacterial isolate, plant species and tissue type all need to be considered in risk assessments" The complex landscape of plants and microbe interaction means that food safety specialists should consider fine detail and cannot generalise when carrying out risk assessments, new research by James Hutton Institute scientists has shown. Fresh produce is an important vehicle for transmission of disease-causing bacteria like Eschericia coli, and experimental evidence shows that they can colonise plants as secondary hosts, but differences in the capacity to
Jenni is a highly experienced Research Scientist in the Ecological Sciences Group at the James Hutton Institute. With a research career spanning over eighteen years, her expertise primarily lies in the field of insect ecology. Invertebrates play a crucial role in nearly all ecosystems, contributing to vital processes such as nutrient cycling, natural pest control, pollination of crops and wildflowers, and serving as a food source for other organisms. Jenni's research focuses on understanding the effects of key stressors, including climate change, land management practices, plant diseases, and
Paul is a grassland researcher at SRUC in Future Farming Systems - Dairy Research and Innovation Centre, with research interests in soil structure and compaction, greenhouse gas emissions/atmospheric chemistry from grassland production, and agroecology.
Mark is a plant scientist at the James Hutton Institute in ecological sciences and his current research interests include monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Centre for Sustainable Cropping at Balruddery, Examination of machine learning and datamining techniques for data analyses and examination of nitrogen budgets within crop systems incorporating legumes.
Gemma is a post doctoral scientist at SRUC working on precision livestock farming research activities, as well as supporting the capacity in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems.
Dr Stew Burgess is the Head of the Vaccines and Diagnostics Department at the Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh. He also leads the sheep scab research group, which focuses on developing novel tools for the control of sheep scab, caused by skin infestation with the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis. Recent developments include a commercially available sheep scab blood test, which can detect infested animals before the appearance of clinical signs and also the first prototype sheep scab vaccine, which significantly reduces mite numbers and the size of the skin lesions, offering a more
Keith is a research scientist a the Moredun Research Institute with particular interests in moelecular immunology and immunogenetics with a focus on genes and proteins in livesitck populations controlling recognition and the response to infection.