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Education and Employment History
2003 – present – Plant Cell Biologist (Band 5), James Hutton Institute
2001 – 2003 – Plant Cell Biologist (Band 6), SCRI
1998 – 2001 – Post-doctoral Researcher (Band 6), SCRI
1995 – 1999 – PhD Plant Virology/Cell Biology – Dundee University
1990 – 1994 – BSc (Hons 1st) Botany and Plant Pathology – Dundee University
Role and responsibilities
My research interests are centred on the utilisation and development of genetics tools and genomics resources for barley and their
Research phytopathologist and Director of Scotland’s Plant Health Centre and the National Potato innovation Centre (NPIC)
Gordon Simpson’s lab is jointly supported by the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee. The lab is part
Sanjeev Kumar Sharma is a member of the Potato Genetics and Breeding group at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee.
Robbie has made major contributions to the development and exploitation of barley as both a cereal crop and model for
Qualifications
BSc (Agricultural Botany), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 1985
PhD (Genetics), University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany, 2000
First Class Honours Graduate in Agricultural Botany, University of Wales Aberystwyth.
PhD Plant Pathology, University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Employed at the Institute since 1994 as a project leader in plant pathology.
