Dr Micha Bayer

Research

 

• BBSRC European Partnership Award “The exploitation and sharing of barley resources” 2021-2025 (Co-I)
• BBSRC Responsive mode “The Generation Gap – Mechanisms of maternal control on grain” 2021-2024 (Co-PI)
• BBSRC Responsive mode “R-EVOLVE” 2021-2025 (subcontract)
• BBSRC Responsive mode “Developing nutrient-enriched cereal grains with large embryos” 2019-2022 (named researcher)
• BBSRC BBR “A Reference Transcript Dataset for improved analysis of RNA-seq data from barley” 2018-2020 (subcontract)
• ERA-CAPS network “BARley yield associated Network (BARN)” 2018-2021 (subcontract)
• BBSRC Responsive mode “Mechanisms underlying variation in barley hull adhesion” 2018-2021 (subcontract)
• Innovate UK “EPH Elimination from Malting Barley for Scotch Whisky Production” 2017-2018 (Co-I)
• TSB/BBSRC AgriTech Catalyst “Breeding Targets for Durable Resistance to Rhynchosporium  (DRRUM)” 2016-2019 (Co-I)
• HGCA/AHDB “A genome wide analysis of key genes controlling diastatic power activity in UK barley” 2015-2017 (Co-I)
• BBSRC Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC) “Fungal effectors as activators of novel resistances in cereals.” 2012-2016 (Researcher Co-I)
• BBSRC Responsive mode “The diversity and evolution of the gene component of barley peri-centromeric heterochromatin” 2011-2014 (named researcher)

Past research

• May2008 – present: Bioinformatics Specialist, The James Hutton Institute (prev. SCRI)
• March 2006 – May2008: Software Developer, Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network (SBRN), SCRI
• September 2003 – February 2006: Grid Developer, National e-Science Centre (Glasgow Hub), University of Glasgow
• September 2002 – September 2003: MSc Information Technology, Glasgow University
• July 1998 – August 2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• February 1998 – June 1998: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews University
• June 1994 – January 1998: PhD Marine Biology, St Andrews University

Publications

Journals

• Wang, Y.; Hunter-Brown, L.; Adams, T.; Woon Cheung, Y.; Lie, J.; Young, V.; Todd, D.; Armstrong, M.; Neugebauer, K.; Kaur, A.; Harrower, B.; Oome, S.; Wang, X.; Bayer, M.; Hein, I. (2023) SMRT–AgRenSeq-d in potato (Solanum tuberosum) as a method to identify candidates for the nematode resistance Gpa5, Horticulture Research, 10(11), Art. Uhad211
• Adams, T.M.; Smith, M.; Wang, Y.; Brown, L.H.; Bayer, M.M.; Hein, I. (2023) HISS: Snakemake-based workflows for performing SMRT-RenSeq assembly, AgRenSeq and dRenSeq for the discovery of novel plant disease resistance genes, BMC Bioinformatics, 24(1), Art. 204
• Coulter, M.; Entizne, J.C.; Guo, W.; Bayer, M.; Wonneberger, R.; Milne, L.; Schreiber, M.; Haaning, A.; Muehlbauer, G.J.; McCallum, N.; Fuller, J.; Simpson, C.; Stein, N.; Brown, J.W.S.; Waugh, R.; Zhang, R. (2022) BaRTv2: a highly resolved barley reference transcriptome for accurate transcript-specific RNA-seq quantification, The Plant Journal, 111(4), 1183-1202
• Liu, L.; B. Jose, S.; Campoli, C.; Bayer, M.; A. Sánchez-Diaz, M.; Mcallister, T.; Zhou, Y.; Eskan, M.; Milne, L.; Schreiber, M.; Batstone, T.; D. Bull, I.; Ramsay, L.; von Wettstein-Knowles, P.; Waugh, R.; M. Hetherington, A.; McKim, S. (2022) Conserved signalling components coordinate epidermal patterning and cuticle deposition in barley, Nature Communications, 13, Art. 6050
• Chen, Y.; Schreiber, M.; Bayer, M.; Dawson, I.; Hedley, P.; Lei, L.; Akhunova, A.; Liu, C.; Smith, K.; Fay, J.; Muehlbauer, G.; Steffenson, B.; Morrell, P.; Waugh, R.; Russell, J. (2022) The evolutionary patterns of barley pericentromeric chromosome regions, as shaped by linkage disequilibrium and domestication, The Plant Journal, 111(6), 1580-1594
• Thauvin, J.; Russell, J.; Vequaud, D.; Looseley, M.; Bayer, M.; Le Roux, P.; Pin, P.; Waugh, R.; Avrova, A. (2022) Genome-Wide Association Study for Resistance to Rhynchosporium in a Diverse Collection of Spring Barley Germplasm, Agronomy, 12(4), Art. 782
• Milne, L.; Bayer, M.; Rapazote-Flores, P.; Mayer, C-D.; Waugh, R.; Simpson, C.G. (2021) EORNA, a barley gene and transcript abundance database., Scientific Data, 8(1), Article No. 90
• Houston, K.; Qiu, J.; Wege, S.; Hrmova, M.; Oakey, H.; Qu, Y.; Smith, P.; Situmorang, A.; Macaulay, M.; Flis, P.; Bayer, M.; Roy, S.; Halpin, C.; Russell, J.; Schreiber, M.; Byrt, C.; Gilliham, M.; Salt, D.E.; Waugh, R. (2020) Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5., Communications Biology, 3, Article No. 258.
• Looseley, M.E.; Griffe, L.L.; Büttner, B.; Wright, K.M.; Bayer, M.M.; Coulter, M.; Thauvin, J-N.; Middlefell-Williams, J.; Maluk, M.; Okpo, A.; Kettles, N.; Werner, P.; Byrne, E.; Avrova, A. (2020) Characterisation of barley landraces from Syria and Jordan for resistance to rhynchosporium and identification of diagnostic markers for Rrs1Rh4., Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 133, 1243-1264.
• Coulter, M.; Büttner, B.; Hofmann, K.; Bayer, M.; Ramsay, L.; Schweizer, G.; Waugh, R.; Looseley, M.E.; Avrova, A. (2019) Characterisation of barley resistance to rhynchosporium on chromosome 6HS., Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 132, 1089-1107.
• Rapazote-Flores, P.; Bayer, M.; Milne, L.; Mayer, C-D.; Fuller, J.; Guo, W.; Hedley, P.E.; Morris, J.; Halpin, C.; Kam, J.; McKim, S.M.; Zwirek, M.; Casao, C.; Barakate, A.; Schreiber, M.; Stephen, G.; Zhang, R.; Brown, J.W.S.; Waugh, R.; Simpson, C.G. (2019) BaRTv1.0: a barley reference transcript dataset for quantitative measurement barley transcriptomes using RNA-seq., BMC Genomics, 20, Article No. 968.
• Okagaki, R.J.; Haaning, A.; Bilgic, H.; Heinen, S.; Druka, A.; Bayer, M.; Waugh, R.; Muehlbauer, G.J. (2018) ELIGULUM-A regulates lateral branch and leaf development in barley., Plant Physiology, 176, 2750-2760.
• Chen, X.; Lewandowska, D.; Armstrong, M.R.; Baker, K.; Lim, T.Y.; Bayer, M.; Harrower, B.; McLean, K.; Jupe, F.; Witek, K.; Lees, A.K.; Jones, J.D.; Bryan, G.J.; Hein, I. (2018) Identification and rapid mapping of a gene conferring broad-spectrum late blight resistance in the diploid potato species Solanum verrucosum through DNA capture technologies, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(6), 1287-1297
• Mascher, M.; Gundlach, H.; Himmelbach, A.; Beier, S.; Twardziok, S.O.; Wicker, T.; Radchuk, V.; Dockter, C.; Hedley, P.E.; Russell, J.; Bayer, M.; Ramsay, L.; Liu, H.; Haberer, G.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, Q.; Barrero, R.A.; Li, L.; Taudien, S.; Groth, M.; Felder, M.; Hastie, A.; Simkova, H.; Stankova, H.; Vrana, J.; Chan, S.; Munoz-Amatriain, M.; Ounit, R.; Wanamaker, S.; Bolser, D.; Colmsee, C.; Schmutzer, T.; Aliyeva-Schnorr, L.; Grasso, S.; Tanskanen, J.; Chailyan, A.; Sampath, D.; Heavens, D.; Clissold, L.; Cao, S.; Chapman, B.; Dai, F.; Han, Y.; Li, H.; Li, X.; Lin, C.; McCooke, J.K.; Tan, C.; Wang, P.; Wang, S.; Yin, S.; Zhou, G.; Poland, J.A.; Bellgard, M.I.; Borisjuk, L.; Houben, A.; Dolezel, J.; Ayling, S.; Lonardi, S.; Kersey, P.; Langridge, P.; Muehlbauer, G.J.; Clark, M.D.; Caccamo, M.; Schulman, U.; Mayer, K.F.X.; Platzer, M.; Close, T.J.; Scholz, U.; Hansson, M.; Zhang, G.; Braumann, I.; Spannagl, M.; Li, C.; Waugh. R.; Stein, N. (2017) A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome , Nature, 544, 427-433.
• Bayer, M.; Ganal, M.; Hedley, P.E.; Macaulay, M.; Plieske, J.; Ramsay, L.; Rapazote-Flores, P.; Russell, J.; Shaw, P.; Thomas, W.; Waugh, R. (2017) Development and evaluation of a barley 50k iSelect SNP array., Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article No. 1792.
• Looseley, M.E.; Bayer, M.; Bull, H.; Ramsay, L.; Thomas, W.; Booth, A.; De La Fuente Canto, C.; Morris, J.; Hedley, P.E.; Russell, J. (2017) Association mapping of diastatic power in UK winter and spring barley by exome sequencing of phenotypically contrasting variety sets., Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article No. 1566.
• Beier, S.; Himmelbach, A.; Colmsee, C.; Zhang, X.Q.; Barrero, R.A.; Zhang, Q.S.; Li, L.; Bayer, M.; Bolser, D.; Taudien, S.; Groth, M.; Felder, M.; Hastie, A.; Simkova, H.; Stankova, H.; Vrana, J.; Chan, S.K.; Munoz-Amatriain, M.; Ounit, R.; Wanamaker, S.; Schmutzer, T.; Aliyeva-Schnorr, L.; Grasso, S.; Tanskanen, J.; Sampath, D.; Heavens, D.; Cao, SJ; Chapman, B; Dai, F; Han, Y; Li, H; Li, X; Lin, CY; McCooke, JK; Tan, C; Wang, SB; Yin, SY; Zhou, GF; Poland, JA; Bellgard, MI; Houben, A; Dolezel, J; Ayling, S; Lonardi, S.; Langridge, P.; Muehlbauer, G.J.; Kersey, P.; Clark, M.D.; Caccamo, M.; Schulman, A.H.; Platzer, M.; Close, T.J.; Hansson, M.; Zhang, G.P.; Braumann, I.; Li, C.D.; Waugh, R.; Scholz, U.; Stein, N.; Mascher, M. (2017) Construction of a map-based reference genome sequence for barley, Hordeum vulgare L., Scientific Data, 4, Article No. 170044.
• Russell, J.; Mascher, M.; Dawson, I.K.; Kyriakidis, S.; Calixto, C.; Freund, F.; Bayer, M.; Milne, I.; Marshall-Griffiths, T.; Heinen, S.; Hofstad, A.; Sharma, R.; Himmelbach, A.; Knauft, M.; van Zonneveld, M.; Brown, J.W.S.; Schmid, K.; Kilian, B.; Muehlbauer, G.J.; Stein, N.; Waugh R. (2016) Exome sequencing of geographically diverse barley landraces and wild relatives gives insights into environmental adaptation., Nature Genetics, 48, 1024-1030.
• Baker, K.; Dhillon, T.; Colas, I.; Cook, N.; Milne, I.; Milne, L.; Bayer, M.; Flavell, A.J. (2015) Chromatin state analysis of the barley epigenome reveals a higher-order structure defined by H3K27me1 and H3K27me3 abundance., Plant Journal, 84, 111-124.
• Ribeiro, A.; Golicz, A.; Hackett, C.A.; Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Marshall, D.; Flavell, A.J.; Bayer, M. (2015) An investigation of causes of false positive single nucleotide polymorphisms using simulated reads from a small eukaryotic genome., BMC Bioinformatics, 16, Article No.382.
• Comadira, G.; Rasool, B.; Kaprinska, B.; Garcia, B.M.; Morris, J.; Verrall, S.R.; Bayer, M.; Hedley, P.E.; Hancock, R.D.; Foyer, C.H. (2015) WHIRLY1 functions in the control of responses to nitrogen deficiency but not aphid infestation in barley., Plant Physiology, 168, 1140-1151.
• Baker, K.; Bayer, M.; Cook, N.; Dreizig, S.; Dhillon, T.; Russell, J.; Hedley, P.E.; Morris, J.; Ramsay, L.; Colas, I.; Waugh, R.; Steffenson, B.; Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Marshall, D.; Flavell, A.J. (2014) The low recombining pericentromeric region of barley restricts gene diversity and evolution but not gene expression., The Plant Journal, 79, 981-992.
• Liu, H.; Bayer, M.; Druka, A.; Russell, J.; Hackett, C.; Poland, J.; Ramsay, L.; Hedley, P.; Waugh, R. (2014) An evaluation of genotyping by sequencing (GBS) to map the Breviaristatum-e (ari-e) locus in cultivated barley., BMC Genomics, 15, Article No.104.
• Russell, J.; Hackett, C.; Hedley, P.; Lui, H.; Milne, L.; Bayer, M.; Marshall, D.; Jorgensen, L.; Gordon, S.; Brennan, R. (2014) The use of genotyping by sequencing in blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum): developing high-resolution linkage maps in species without reference genome sequences., Molecular Breeding, 33, 835-849.
• Wu, X.; Hornyik, C.; Bayer, M.; Marshall, D.; Waugh, R.; Zhang, R.X. (2014) In silico identification and characterization of conserved plant microRNAs in barley., Central European Journal of Biology, 9, 841-852.
• Ho, T.; Cardle, L.; Xu, X.; Bayer, M.; Prince, S.J.; Mutava, R.N.; Marshall, D.F.; Syed, N.H. (2014) Genome-Tagged Amplification (GTA): a PCR-based method to prepare sample-tagged amplicons from hundreds of individuals for next generation sequencing., Molecular Breeding, 34, 977-988.
• Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Bayer, M.M.; Cock, P.J.A.; Pritchard, L.; Cardle, L.; Shaw, P.; Marshall, D.F. (2013) Using Tablet for visual exploration of second generation sequencing data., Briefings in Bioinformatics, 14, 193-202.
• The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC). (including: Waugh, R.; Hedley, P.; Liu, H.; Morris, J.; Brown, J.W.S.; Russell, J.; Druka, A.; Marshall, D.; Bayer, M.). (2012) A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome., Nature, 491, 711-716.
• Comadran, J.; Kilian, B.; Russell, J.R.; Ramsay, L.; Stein, N.; Ganal, M.; Shaw, P.; Bayer, M.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Marshall, D.F.; Hedley, P.E.; Tondelli, A.; Pecchioni, N.; Francia, E.; Korzun, V.; Walther, A.; Waugh, R. (2012) Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley., Nature Genetics, 44, 1388-1392.
• Bayer, M.M.; Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Shaw, P.; Cardle, L.; Wright, F.; Marshall, D.F. (2011) Comparative visualization of genetic and physical maps with Strudel., Bioinformatics, 27, 1307-1308.

Books

• Bayer, M.; Morris, J.; Booth, C.; Booth, A.; Uzrek, N.; Russell, J.R.; Waugh, R.; Hedley, P.E. (2019) Exome capture for variant discovery and analysis in barley, In: Harwood, W.A. (ed.) Barley: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, New York, Volume 1900, 283-310
• Simpson, C.G.; Barrero, R.A.; Bayer, M.; Flavell, A.; Rapazote-Flores, P.; Bellgard, M.I.; Hedley, P.E.; Zhang, R.; Waugh, R. (2018) The expressed portion of the barley genome, In: Stein, N. & Muehlbauer, G. (eds.) The Barley Genome, Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 789-107
• Twardziok, S.; Gundlach, H.; Hedley, P.E.; Bayer, M.; Platzer, M.; Groth, M.; Waugh, R.; Spannagl, M. (2018) Gene prediction in the barley genome, In: Stein, N. & Muehlbauer, G. (eds.) The Barley Genome, Compendium of Plant Genomes. Switzerland: Springer, Cham, 73-88
• Milne, I.; Bayer, M.; Stephen, G.; Cardle, L.; Marshall, D. (2016) Tablet: visualizing next-generation sequence assemblies and mappings., In: Edwards, D. (ed.). Plant Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 14, pp253-268.

Reports

• Milne, I.; Shaw, P.; Milne, L.; Bayer, M.; Stephen, G.; Marshall, D.F. (2010) Visualising genetic diversity., Annual Report of the Scottish Crop Research Institute for 2009, pp21-22.

Conference papers

• Chen, X.; Bayer, M.; Harrower, B.; Stevens, L.; Chapman, S.; Gilroy, E.; van Weymers, P.; Jupe, F.; Witek, K.; Jones, J.; Birch, P.; Bryan, G.; Hein, I. (2014) Using the potato genome to map and clone durable resistance genes more rapidly., Crop Protection in Northern Britain, Environmental Management and Crop Protection, West Park Conference Centre, Dundee, 25-26 February 2014.
• Avrova, A.; Gamble, L.; Griffe, L.; Ruiz, O.; Munsterkotter, M.; Bayer, M.; Looseley, M.E.; Knogge, W.; Newton, A.C.; Birch, P.R.; Hammond-Kosack K.E.; Kanyuka, K. (2014) From Rhynchosporium commune genome sequence to barley resistance., Crop Protection in Northern Britain, Environmental Management and Crop Protection, West Park Conference Centre, Dundee, 25-26 February 2014.
• Gamble, L.; Munsterkotter, M.; Bayer, M.; Knogge, W.; Newton, A.C.; Birch, P.R.J.; Avrova, A. (2014) On the path of discovery: Rhynchosporium commune effectors activating scald resistance in barley., Crop Protection in Northern Britain, Environmental Management and Crop Protection, West Park Conference Centre, Dundee, 25-26 February 2014.
• Shaw, P.; Milne, I.; Cardle, L.; Waugh, R.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Ramsay, L.; Comadran, J.; Stephen G.; Bayer, M.; Graham, M.; Kennedy J.; Oakey, H.; Marshall, D.F. (2012) Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees., Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, California, 14-18 January 2012.
• Bayer, M.; Liu, H.; Marshall, D.F.; Russell, J.; Hedley, P.E.; Milne, I.; Stephen G.; Waugh, R.; (2011) A GBS data processing pipeline for barley., StatSeq Meeting on Genotyping by Sequencing. Wageningen, Netherlands, 3-4 November 2011 (Talk).
• Bayer, M.M.; Russell, J.R.; Milne, L.; Hedley, P.E.; Marshall, D.F. (2010) SNP discovery in barley Illumina data using Mosaik, GigaBayes and Tablet., 2nd Workshop of COST StatSeq Action (TD0801), Ghent, Belgium, 20-21 May 2010.
• Shaw, P.; Cardle, L.; Milne, I.; Waugh, R.; Flavell, A.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Grzebyta, J.; Bayer, M.; Marshall, D.F. (2009) Germinate 2: A platform for Illumina SNP genotyping experiments and high volume phenotypic data., Plant & Animal Genome XVII, San Diego, California, 10-14 January 2009.

Conference posters

• Shaw, P.; Raubach, S.; Macaulay, M.; Schreiber, M.; Milne, I.; Bayer, M.; Kilian, B. (2023) Going for BOLD Supporting the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development Project with Germinate and GridScore, Plant and Animal Genome 30, 13-18 January 2023. San Diego, USA & Online.
• Sharma, S.K.; Bayer, M.; MacKenzie, K.; McLean, K.; Dale, F.; Taylor, M.; Bryan, G.J. (2018) Sequence-based genotyping and trait analysis in potato., 15th Solanaceae Conference (SOL2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 30 September – 4 October 2018. Abstract
• Rapazote-Flores, P.; Mayer, C-D.; Hedley, P.E.; Morris, J.; Fuller, J.; Milne, L.; Stephen, G.; Raeside, A.; Bayer, M.; Brown, J.W.S.; Calixto, C.P.G.; de la Vega, J.; Ayling, S.; Sampath, D.; Caccamo, M.; Waugh, R. (2016) Organ specific expression and alternative splicing in Barley (Hordeum vulgare)., Poster, September 2016.
• Looseley, M.E.; Bayer, M.; Hedley, P.E.; Bull, H.; Booth, A.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Ramsay, L.; Morris, J.; Waugh, R.; Russell, J.R. (2016) A genome wide analysis of key genes controlling diastatic power activity in winter and spring barley., International Barley Genetics Symposium, 12th, Minneapolis, USA, 26-30 June 2016. Poster
• Sharma, S.K.; Bayer, M.; McLean, K.; MacKenzie, K.; Daniels, S.; Dale, F.; Bryan, G. (2015) Application of genotyping-by-sequencing and genome-wide association analysis in tetraploid potato, 3rd Plant Genomics Congress, 11-12 May 2015, London, UK.
• Sharma, S.K.; Bayer, M.; McLean, K.; MacKenzie, K.; Daniels, S.; Dale, F.; Bryan, G. (2015) Genome-wide association studies using high-throughput SNP analysis in tetraploid potato, 12th Solanaceae Conference (SOL 2015), 25-29 October 2015, Bordeaux, France.
• Sharma, S.K.; Bayer, M.; McLean, K.; MacKenzie, K.; Daniels, S.; Dale, F.; Bryan, G. (2014) Application of genotyping-by-sequencing for identifying SNP variation and performing genome-wide association studies in a tetraploid potato association panel, 19th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR), 6-11 July 2014, Brussels, Belgium.
• Sharma, S.K.; Bayer, M.; McLean, K.; MacKenzie, K.; Daniels, S.; Dale, F.; Bryan, G. (2014) Genotyping-by-sequencing and genome-wide association analysis in tetraploid potato, 11th Solanaceae Conference (SOL 2014), 2-6 November 2014, Porto Seguro-BA, Brazil.
• Baker, K.; Cook, N.; Bayer, M.; Colas, I.; Ramsay, L.; Russell, J.; Flavell, A.J. (2014) Epigenome of barley: Development and optimisation of a ChiP-Seq protocol to investigate histone modification in barley., Plant and Animal Genome XXII, San Diego, California, USA, 12-16 January 2014.
• Baker, K.; Bayer, M.; Cook, N.; Dreissig, S.; Dhillon, T.; Russell, J.; Hedley, P.; Morris, J.; Colas, I.; Waugh, R.; Steffenson, B.; Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Marshall, D.; Flavell, A.J. (2014) The peri-centromeric heterochromatin of barley is a permissive environment for gene diversity, expression and evolution., Plant and Animal Genome XXII, San Diego, California, USA, 12-16 January 2014.
• Stephen, G.; Milne, I.; Bayer, M.; Shaw, P.D.; Raubach, S.; Hearne, S.; Singh, S.; Wenzl, P.; Marshall, D. (2014) Graphical applications for visualizing and analysing genotype data sets., VizBi 2014, 2nd EMBO Conference on Visualizing Biological Data, EML-Heidelberg, Germany, 5-7 March 2014.
• Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Bayer, M.; Shaw, P.D.; Raubach, S.; Hearne, S.; Singh, S.; Wenzl, P.; Marshall, D. (2014) Graphical applications for visualizing and analysing genotype data sets., International Plant and Animal Genome XXII, San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 January 2014.
• Pritchard, L.; Bayer, M.; Cock, P.; Flores, P.; Jones, S.; Milne, I.; Shaw, P.; Marshall, D. (2014) James Hutton Institute Bioinformatics Grouping., Data Science Research Day, University of Edinburgh, 12 September 2014.
• Milne, I.; Stephen, G.; Bayer, M.; Cardle, L.; Shaw, P.; Marshall, D. (2013) Optimisation of SNP and alternative splicing discovery using the Tablet NGS viewer., Plant and Animal Genome XXI, San Diego, CA, USA, 12-16 January 2013, P0971.
• Tondelli, A.; Xu, X.; Schnaithmann, F.; Sharma, R.; Ingvardsen C.; Comadran, J.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Russell, J.; Bayer, M.; Hedley, P.E.; Waugh, R.; Schulman, A.H.; Pillen K.; Kilian B.; Rasmussen, S.K.; Cattivelli, L.; Flavell, A.J. (2012) Structural and temporal variation in the genetic diversity of a European collection of barley cultivars and utility for association mapping of quantitative traits., Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, USA, 11-15 January 2012 (Abstract).
• Tondelli, A.; Xu, X.; Schnaithmann, F.; Sharma, R.; Ingvardsen C.; Comadran, J.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Russell, J.; Bayer, M.; Hedley, P.E.; Waugh, R.; Schulman, A.H.; Pillen K.; Kilian B.; Rasmussen, S.K.; Cattivelli, L.; Flavell, A.J. (2012) Structural and temporal variation in the genetic diversity of a European collection of barley cultivars and utility for association mapping of quantitative traits., 11th International Barley Genetics Symposium, Hangzhou, China, 15-20 April 2012, No. 89 (Abstract).
• Shaw, P.; Milne, I.; Cardle, L.; Waugh, R.; Flavell, A.J.; Stephen, G.; Bayer, M.; Graham, M.; Kennedy, J.; Marshall, D.F. (2011) Germinate 2 – Storage, visualization and analysis of high volume genotypic, phenotypic and pedigree data., Plant and Animal Genome XIX, San Diego, California, USA, 15-19 January 2011. (Poster)
• Flavell, A.J.; Syed, N.H.; Ho, T.; Cardle, L.; Xu, X.; Bayer, M.M.; Marshall, D.F. (2011) Genome-Tagged Amplification (GTA) – A PCR-based method to prepare sample-tagged amplicons from hundreds of individuals for next generation sequencing., Plant and Animal Genome XIX, San Diego, California, USA, 15-19 January 2011. (Poster)
• Woodhead, M.; Williamson, S.; Weir, A.; Smith, K.; Jennings, N.; McCallum, S.; Hackett, C.A.; Hedley, P.E.; Bayer, M.M.; Graham, J. (2011) Identification of cane splitting QTLs in raspberry., Scottish Society for Crop Research, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, 9 March 2011. (Poster)
• Marshall, D.F.; Milne, I.; Bayer, M.; Shaw, P.; Cardle, L.; Stephen, G.; Ramsay, L.; Comadran, J.; Thomas, W.T.B.; Russell, J.R.; Flavell, A.J.; Waugh, R. (2010) What you see is what you get: SCRI visualization tools for SNP discovery, genotype analysis and comparative mapping., Plant & Animal Genome XVIII, San Diego, California, USA, 9-13 January 2010 (Abstract).