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Qualifications
BSc (Agricultural Botany), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 1985
PhD (Genetics), University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany, 2000
I joined the Institute in 2008, where I have been doing comparative genetics and other bioinformatics work. The common theme has been plant pathogens, covering multiple kingdowms of life from viruses to nematodes (for example, a project to sequence the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida, an economically important plant pest here in Scotland).
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.
Currently a Honorary Associate of the Ecological Sciences programme at the James Hutton Institute and an honorary lecturer at Dundee University teaching Microbial Ecology, I have held postdoctoral positions at York, Lancaster and Durham Universities after completing a PhD at Warwick University and degree at Nottingham University.
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
