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Research phytopathologist and Director of Scotland’s Plant Health Centre and the National Potato innovation Centre (NPIC)
Lesley is Executive Director of Science at the James Hutton Institute and Professor of Biology at the University of St Andrews. She was appointed member of CGIAR advisory panel, the International Science for Development Council, in 2019 and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020. In addition, she is a non-executive Director of the Dundee Science Centre.
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Derek Stewart is the Director of the Advanced Plant Growth Centre (APGC), a £27M flagship project at the James Hutton
Current technical activities
Biography:
BSc in Zoology, with Physics and Mathematics, University of Glasgow.
MSc in Operational Research, University of Sussex.
Teaching qualification in Mathematics and Computing, Moray House, Edinburgh.
PhD in Molecular Evolution, University of Edinburgh.
Joined BioSS in 1989, based at Dundee since 1998.
During my career at the Institute, much of my work involved the application of imaging and cell biology techniques to investigate the interactions between pathogens and plants.
Robbie has made major contributions to the development and exploitation of barley as both a cereal crop and model for
