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Prof. Nick Birch is an Honorary Associate with expertise on Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPM) research at the James Hutton Institute.
For details of ongoing IPM research areas and projects, please visit the IPM@Hutton website.
Long-term research goals
Policy led environmental research with practical outcomes for global agriculture:
Employment history
October 2007-present – Professor of Plant Pathology, Division of Plant Sciences, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (at the James Hutton Institute).
2002-2007 – Molecular Plant Pathologist (Band 4), SCRI.
1999-2002 – Molecular Plant Pathologist (Band 5), SCRI.
1995-1999 – Molecular Plant Pathologist (Band 6), SCRI.
Science/Policy/Education
Global issues in sustainable systems, ecological resilience, food security and environmental impact (EU, Scottish Government)
Gene movement and persistence in higher plants (Defra, EU).
BSc Genetics (Hons) (1997-2001) Edinburgh University PhD Molecular Plant Pathology (2001-2005) Edinburgh University/SCRI Researcher specializing in plant immune responses to
Tim is a plant physiologist/soil scientist and has worked on rhizosphere processes for the last three decades.
I graduated in Timber Engineering from the École Supérieure du Bois (Nantes, France) in 2000 and was awarded a PhD
My research interest lies in the interactions between bacteria and their plant hosts. The research is primarily focused on food-borne bacteria, but also covers opportunistic plant pathogens because of the many similarities in the types of interactions; transmission of the bacteria through the wider environment and the plant host response.
Our research group focuses on identifying, mobilising, and cloning durable resistances against major potato pathogens. By applying genomics and genetics
I am an ecologist working on arable biodiversity and agroecosystem sustainability in the Ecological Sciences Department at The James Hutton
