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Miriam is a cereal bioinformatics specialist in the Information and Computational Science Department. She has substantial experience in barley genomics
Current role
I completed my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Pretoria (UP, South Africa); my research focus is the legume-rhizobium
Alon is a landscape agroecologist with a background in geosciences, geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Victoria, Canada and an MSc from the Lund University, Sweden. His work involves the use of GIS, remote sensing applications, programming, and conceptual modelling to evaluate landscape changes and to greater understand a landscape’s potential for sustainable agricultural practices.
Trinity Sandra Ndlovu (nee) Senda is as Agroecosystem ecologist at the James Hutton Institute (JHI). She attained her PhD thesis from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in Management of Agroecosystems and the Environment. Her PhD work focused on the socio-ecological implications of communal land rights formalization in pastoral settings.
Dr David Boldrin (BSc in Biology; MSc in Environmental biology; PhD in Civil Engineering) is a researcher in Plant Soil Mechanisms at The James Hutton Institute and a research fellow in the EPSRC-funded project “Climate Adaptation Control Technologies for Urban Spaces” at the University of Dundee.
I am one of the Institute's Mental Health First Aiders and have completed my Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training which enables me to support people in crisis.
Education
BSc Computing Science (with Distinction)
PGDE Secondary (Computing)
Raul joined the Institute in November 2020 as Plant Biochemist/Molecular Physiologist. Raul's training combines a BSc in Biochemistry, MSc in Biochemical Sciences and another in Agricultural Science, and a PhD in Plant Sciences.
James is a molecular plant pathologist and plant nematologist within the CMS nematology group with a focus on potato cyst nematodes (PCN). Over his 8 years' experience working with plant-parasitic nematodes he has investigated parasite-host interactions, specifically; hatching, nematode surface-coats, screening for host PCN resistance and investigating host tolerance to PCN. James frequently collaborates with external companies to test novel PCN control strategies.
Tom is a Molecular PCN Resistance Researcher working within the CMS department.
