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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
Gordon Simpson’s lab is jointly supported by the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee. The lab is part
Paul focuses on software development for plant genetic resources, genetics and plant breeding. He leads several projects where his research
Sanjeev Kumar Sharma is a member of the Potato Genetics and Breeding group at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee.
